You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it. -Bill Cosby
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You have to love nature. Almost reminds me of feeling out of place as the tallest until freshman year in high school. Ah, junior high dances where not much fun the boys were too short.
Okay, today I am going to pick your brain and ask you to *gasp* share a funny story. Life is always much funnier than the funniest joke. So, what memory makes you laugh every time you talk about it? Is it from when you were a kid? Is it about your kids? Please, share your stories in the comments:)
My oldest daughter DeeAnne was born an actress and drama queen. Great combination, I know, she is so full of life and emotion. Because of that little acting gene she is a great liar, always has been. At 18 months old, she faked being really upset when her grandfather was watching her. She stood knees bent crying, he tried to talk to her, sing to her, give her candy, and finally after an hour she looked at him and laughed. She must have been thinking mommy wouldn't have fallen for it. Well, over time she perfected her acting. One day, when she was five, I came home from work and she said, "Mommy you aren't going to be happy." My first thought was, we took down the bunk beds so there is no way she colored on the ceiling again, is there? Well, after my husband left for work she sat me down at the table all serious. I had to ask her, "DeeAnne, what is wrong?" She replied, "Nothing mommy, but daddy bought an expensive paintball gun today. We went to the painball store and he found a paintball gun he really liked." Of course I had to ask, "How do you know he bought it?" DeeAnne looked up with her sweet eyes and said, "Mommy, dad told the guy he would pay him two hundred dollars every week for the next two months." (Now I knew that my husband had wanted a paintball gun that cost about $1600.) I asked her, "Are you sure that is what you heard? Maybe daddy was just talking to him about it." She replied, "NO! He bought it, hid it, and said to not tell you about it." Well, after having a talk with my husband, and searching the house DeeAnne came up to me and said, "Mommy, I want to be on TV. Even you believe me when I lie." She turns ten on Sunday, I can't wait for the teenage years.
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She has always been the funny one. I never forget when you called me to tell me she had cut all her curls off and then put them back on top of her head so you could not tell that she did that. Or the time her and Felicia went and took all the shampoo and made a slip and slip inside the house and put their swimsuits on. They have always been very funny with all the things they have done.
You don't want the teenage years they are hard.
That last part was my sarcastic side showing. I am dreading the teenage years, two girls going through high school at the same time, followed by the boys. AHH!
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