Time for laughing!

Life never seems to slow down or get less hectic.  The dance lessons, swim lessons, school lessons never seem to end, and sometimes you just want to tell the world to halt cause you want to get off!  While there is the time to just plug through endless doctor's appointments and lessons, it is always important to sneak in one of life's lessons every once in awhile.  Smiling, laughing and letting loose never did hurt anyone!  

My life lesson I learned today is never let a child play with quarters around the shredding machine.  Now, I know some of you are shrieking in horror at the thought of any child around a shredding machine.  So, let me preface this by saying that our shredding machine is ALWAYS unplugged with our outlets plugged with kid safe devices.  The chance of my 2 year old unplugging the outlet are zero to none because it's difficult for my lupus free husband to get out.  Having cleared that up, it was quite the surprise this morning when I plugged in the shredder and started to shred receipts, and the noise of various metals crunching compelled me to quickly shut the machine off.  Upon further investigation, the source of the anomaly was a crunched up quarter that would have been useful in a variety of ways considering that most families these days are prone to shake the couches for various types of lost coinage.  

Now, a person could: 

A) yell, scream, shout and do the angry dance all the while lining up the kids in the proverbial "line" to intricately question them as to "Who Dun It" with every mother around knowing the answer will always be "I don't know" OR

B) start laughing so hard that every cell in your being rejoices for the momentary release of mounting tension that's been building for months and with joyful tears in your eyes rejoice that life has not forgotten you and tell yourself that this was the best spent quarter that you've had in a very long time

So, which one did I choose?  Well, I chose option B because these moments are precious, and it's better to laugh it off than increase my blood pressure and do more bodily harm than the lupus is already doing!  

My wish for you today, my friends, is to laugh off the stressful moments even though it IS difficult at times.  I know I will always remember these events fondly even when my children are grown and have flown the coop.  I wish for lupus sufferers, caregivers and friends the best belly laugh today that will leave tears streaming down your faces!

Happy thoughts sent your way!