Laughter is the best medicine

I had to share a funny that happened yesterday. Austin had his regular monthly orthondontic check-up where they change the wire and the bands. I always ask what colors of bands he'll choose and he said he'll stick with maroon and white since that's our school colors. The girls changed for every holiday (red & green for Christmas, purle & pink for Easter, etc), but he's could care less about that sort of thing.



Anyhow, as we're driving him home and getting him back to school he starts singing Christmas songs. Not the traditional ones mind you...but the ones from his "redneck christmas" cds. My dear sweet son LOVES Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall & Larry The Cable Guy who are all big redneck comics. For example, when Larrys one movie came out, the first scene showed him scratching his butt and he has gas. Austin is laughing so hard he can hardly stay in his theater seat. Jay and I are not even watching the movie because we are too busy laughing our heads off at Austin. So anyhow, back to singing. Austins favorite Christmas song is "Silent Farts, Deadly Farts" which he knows always makes me wrinkle up my nose and say "eewwww" and that makes him giggle non-stop. He's such a "guy" that way. LOL So he's singing these different songs and laughing at himself, which has me laughing too.

A couple of Larrys Christmas songs have one or two minor swear words in them. I'm not naive. I KNOW my son hears swear words at school. He might even say them himself...I don't know. But I have always told our kids that while I realize swearing is almost considered a part of normal conversation these days, I'd prefer they not swear in front of me (at least until they are adult age...I can't stand hearing kids swear), and they never have.

So Austin's singing a way and and he sings "no snow at Christmas....it's just damn wrong" and he goes on singing. I start cracking up, because I don't think he even realized what he had just said. He stops singing and says "What?" I said "Sing that last part over again." He sings "no snow at Christmas...it's just ..... oh sorry" and gets all red in the face. I laugh so hard I can barely stay on the road. Austin gets to laughing too and we giggled all the rest of the way back to the school over that. I think he was afraid I was going to get mad at him, but how could I? It was said innocently, repeating lyrics and he didn't mean to say it....which for me made it even funnier when I saw his reaction. LOL



Then last night I took Chelsea and Ashley to finish up their Christmas shopping. As we are driving home Chelsea said "While we were in Target I heard a lady call to her son. She said "Joshua Jonathon Stevens Williams Smith get over here. Since he has 3 last names, does that mean he has 3 fathers?" Ashley is up front with me and we look at each other and start laughing. I look back in the mirror at Chelsea and said "Um darling daughter....how could he have 3 fathers? Once the deed is done, you can't get pg again for at least 9 months." She sat there for a second thinking about that and said 'Oh yea, I forgot about that part'. Ashley & I laughed hysterically and now that Chelsea realized what she said, she laughed and laughed too.



I'm so glad we have taught them to laugh at themselves by laughing at ourselves. I don't ever want them to take themselves too seriously.

The best part was that I woke up yesterday with a terrible headache, and by last night it was completely gone. Laughter really is the best medicine.