Laughter

Have you ever been in a store and heard someone laugh and their laugh just makes you giggle. My son Gabriel has always had such an infectious laugh, I notice when I haven't heard his laugh in a while. Then I heard it, deep and infectious, he had pulled his mattress up to the top of the stairs, and I watched as he and our dog Lizzy rode the mattresses down the stairs flying off the mattress when it hit the bottom. It was the funniest thing.

I was thinking about a day at the ski hill, I was riding the lift up and I heard this deep, let loose laughing of two girls it didn't take long to recognize they belonged to my girls. Sarrah was chasing Olivia down the ski hill saying "I'm going to poke you in the butt with my pole!" They played this game for 10 runs, belly laughing and having such a great time. I loved watching them and all the people on the lift catching the laughing fever too.

I watched my kids,their friends and our dog Lizzy on the trampoline yesterday-jumping in the hail and snow laughing, having fun, being free to be themselves.

Our dog Lizzy really doesn't know she is a dog, she thinks she is our 5th child.

I am grateful for Laughter.

"A day without laughter is a day wasted"