When we visited Stan and Nichole on New Year's they pulled out their family laugh box. It was just a small card board box with the writing, Family Laugh Box 2007, written neatly on the side. When someone in their family said or did something silly or noteworthy, they would write it down on whatever piece of paper they could find, date it, fold it, and toss it into the laughing box.
I need to do this. My kids are saying and doing silly things every day that make me stop and just look at them in wonder. Wonder about what is going on in their little heads. Some are hilarious, others, down right shocking, a few are aggravating, but most are sweet and adorable. So, these things are said and done, the day goes on, and I seem to forget. I don't want to forget. I want to write them down so I can go back and read them at times when I am tired, frustrated, feeling worthless as a mom, and need to be reminded that it is the simple things in life that bring us the greatest joy.
So, the next time I am out browsing Cost Plus World Market and see a really cool box, because it happens often, seriously! I am not going talk myself out of buying it because, "What would I do with that, where would I put it, what use would I possibly have for it?" I will sweep it off the shelf, bring it home, fill it with colored note cards and a pen, and set it nicely on my shelf in my office.
Then the next time an incident like this happens.....
We left cookies on Avery's Primary teacher's door step. She called the next day to thank Avery and asked if she had helped me make the cookies. Avery quickly replied, "No, a neighbor gave us those." (not really, but sorta kind of....they were my home made cookies as well as a few others from the cookie party I couldn't go to, but my friend brought me the cookies anyway) So, it sounded really bad, and yes I was mortified, but hey, Avery was honest. She didn't help me make the cookies. And she did see my friend drop most of them off at our house that day.
I will write it down and throw it in "The Laughing Box."
