{ Ramblings and Laughter }

I don't know what's come over me. I've been on a blogging steak, but I promise I won't clutter up the interweb everyday, just maybe this week. Ha Ha! I think it just feels good right now to have this outlet as I process so many thoughts.

When Tim came home from work the other night, we were both feeling overwhelmed and just in a slump. He told me, just after coming through the door, he realized he couldn't laugh driving home. He was admiring a friend of his who typically reacts to adverse circumstances by laughing. The more things that are going wrong the more he laughs, he sees the irony in it. It's just so ridiculous, what is there to do but laugh. We both wished right then we were more like that. I little later, as I was finishing up dinner he came in and he mentioned that again and finished by telling me a joke he'd heard that day. Determined to make us laugh. As he started I was in one of those attitudes, maybe you've been there, where you are determined you won't be made to laugh. I was just going to stay a little miserable. What do you know, I laughed at the punch line in spite of myself, before I even realized I had. Tim felt pretty pleased with himself and it broke the spell. The rest of the night we were silly, we just enjoyed the company of the other and drew from the strength each of us had. There is a reason why the Bible says that laughter is good medicine. It just is!

When I was sitting across the table from Tim at dinner last night, I realized I am falling hard in love all over again for this man I married. I saw just how much I appreciate and admire him and how much I love doing life with him. Then there's this adorable little man who is both of us in so many ways sitting there with us, a part of our family, who just cracks us up everyday, and the little baby moving inside me. I don't know how I can get discouraged when life is this wonderful. It's really only the people in my life that make it worth the living. Oh to remember that always!

One of Oliver's favorite things to do these days is go for stroller rides. He has gotten to the developmental stage that he gets excited and makes noises and gestures toward things he wants. Lately it is dogs and fire hydrants! We will be strolling along and all of a sudden he reaches his arms out and squeals. Sure enough, there is a fire hydrant somewhere in view, it doesn't even have to be close. He loves them, so we stop and touch it and it just makes his day. We pet the dogs as much as possible, just not as often. It cracks us up! Dogs and fire hydrants do go together!

I have been reading the "Anne of Green Gables" series this summer and am so excited to say I am almost finished with the final book, "Rilla of Ingelside". This is my first time to make it all the way through the series and it feels to good that I have read this much in a summer in spite of busy-ness. "Rilla" takes place during WWI, which has been fascinating to me since I know next to nothing about that war, other than the dates it took place. I am a history lover and I relate so well to Rilla. She is young woman coming of age, falling in love for the first time, finding her place in life, and growing into womanhood. L.M. Montgomery paints that time of transition in a woman's life so masterfully. The series takes place in Canada so not only are the details of WWI new to me, having them told from the Canadian perspective, is a new twist as well. I am eager to do a little more reading up on this time in history now.

I'm not sure there is any sort of congruent flow of thought to this post, and if you made it this far I commend you! But laundry is calling my name, which reminds me of this picture I pinned to my Pinterest yesterday. I actually like doing laundry, but it is difficult to keep up with! Just to end with a laugh!

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