Laughter Really Is The Best Medicine…

*This may not be the best video posted on here but due to certain irritating frustrations from a site designed to host videos, I have had to resort to recapturing it to show here.*

I have bad days, like most people. When it seems like everything is going to collapse down upon me, when I can’t breathe, can’t smile, laugh, move, function; I have my children. They can make a bad day, good. They have this internal mechanism that senses when I need a laugh, or a hug. Mostly they make me laugh.

Research has shown health benefits of laughter ranging from strengthening the immune system to reducing food cravings to increasing one’s threshold for pain. There’s even an emerging therapeutic field known as humor therapy to help people heal more quickly, among other things. Humor also has several important stress relieving benefits.

I love to laugh and to have a good time and not worry about everyday stresses. Alas, most days that isn’t so. I miss my husband tremendously. I miss his laughter, his twinkling eyes, his warmth, smell, touch; I miss his hugs and kisses the most. While I feel melancholy, my children pick up on this and do silly little things to make me laugh. For instance, my 3 yr old daughter tells me while I am making her breakfast, “Momma, I love you. You are my friend and I tell my friends secrets.”  How astute she is in her observations of my long face, lol. She has been the one to make me laugh the most, not because she is special or that no one else can make me laugh, because it just so happens she is the youngest and has the most innocence of all the kids. My boys and my oldest daughter make me laugh all the time too but DD3 is the funniest.

My boys make me laugh with their silly antics, my DD5 makes me laugh with her many “fluffies” and pretend burps. They all tell me how much they love me and they all in their own unique way, have special abilities to make me laugh. They are smart, funny, respectful and loving, very loving. I couldn’t be a happier mother. They make my days brighter and less lonely and a little more interesting, to say the least. Laughter really is the best medicine…

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About Renee

I am a mother of four beautiful, precocious children. I love to share all of their wonderful, funny, silly accomplishments. I love to write but have had no time really until now. I also love to photograph my children and anything beautiful that catches me eye. I am a nurse, who has chosen to sacrifice the love of the job, to give love to her family. I am a pacifist with passion, meaning I will sit back and watch until I get knocked out of my chair, so to speak. I am an avid reader of everything. So please enjoy the blogs of randomness and feel free to compliment, critique and laugh.
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2 Responses to Laughter Really Is The Best Medicine…

  1. Renee says:

    Me either my love, I am counting down the days as I am sure you are too. I love you!

  2. Hubby says:

    I cant wait to be home again with you and the kids.

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