Well, it’s National Brownie Day. I made brownies and I’m catching up on all of the wonderful Reverb Broads blogs tonight. Whew. Brownies + Crying + Laughter = Awesome Thursday Night! I’m so glad I’ve found all of you.
And I’m really, really glad I made brownies tonight.
Why blog? Why do you or why do you like to blog (recognizing that these are not always the same thing)? – Kristen
I enjoy it! It’s therapeutic, a creative outlet, and a way to record my life for posterity’s sake. I’ve met friends around the world (and married one of them) through blogging. I really love the community. We all have stories and we become better together when we share them.
And I suppose at the end of the day, I feel less alone.
I’m taking part in a blogging group called Reverb Broads that will be suggesting daily blogging prompts this December. If you want to join in, feel free! Go here or here to learn more.
He added a scarf to my hair and said, “it looks a little better.” This was after he crawled into my bed, sprawled on my back, and giggled, “you have a big bottom hill.”
Kids keeps you humble.
Who or what makes you laugh so hard that milk shoots out of your nose and why? Slapstick, dry witty comedy, your kids, Monty Python? – Kassie
If you’d seen me around ten o’clock last night, you would have realized that my husband is the one who cracks me up the most. He was leaping around the living room doing Really Weird Stuff and I couldn’t breathe because I was laughing so hard.
I just love a really good laugh. Tears streaming, high-pitched noises, a small bit of drool. It’s all good.
I hold SNL very dear to my heart. Daniel and I watch it every Saturday night and I really miss having Steve and Cassidy here to watch with us. My favorite cast members are Kristin Wiig and Bill Hader. I adore them.
Eddie Izzard also makes me laugh for hours. He’s absolutely brilliant, an amazing mime, and his noises are just spectacular. I do wish he still cross-dressed regularly.
I’m also a huge fan of Louis C.K. He’s the king of self-deprecating humor. He’s not very family-friendly (very little of this post is, I suppose) but he talks about real life in such a way that you want to cry and laugh all at the same time.
Obviously, we all have our favorite TV shows that make us laugh but the two shows that have made me laugh the ENTIRE time are Arrested Development and The IT Crowd.
Other milk-shooting-out-of-my-nose-funny-things:
– Overdue
– My mom and I trying to hold severe grimaces on our faces for so long that our neck muscles hurt for days
– Taping a cup of water to the bathroom door so that my mom would be soaked when she opened it but then being completely soaked when she slammed it shut after seeing my dad and I giggling
– Awkward Family Photos
– America’s Funniest Home Videos
– Hyperbole and a Half
– Crappy Pictures
I just need to end this post now, don’t I?
I’m taking part in a blogging group called Reverb Broads that will be suggesting daily blogging prompts this December. If you want to join in, feel free! Go here or here to learn more.
We attended the 24th Annual Holiday Tree Lighting at our local library tonight. Elves passed out brownies and cups of hot apple cider while we sang Christmas carols. It was snowing the entire time as we sang around the steps of the library.
This was Drew’s first experience seeing Santa. In fact, this is the first Christmas where we’ve really even talked about Santa. Drew kept looking up in the sky (I guess he thought Santa was going to fly in on his sleigh) and when Santa rode in on a firetruck I heard a tiny boy squeal.
In the midst of the shivering crowd, Santa turned on the lights and then gave hugs and candy canes. It wasn’t the moment for sitting on his knee – it was the moment for magic. At one point Daniel turned to me and said, “do you want to get on my shoulders or something?” I was squealing just as much as the kids.
I was wearing reindeer antlers and when Santa got to us, he pointed at my antlers and asked Drew, “what does your Mommy have on her head?” Drew had been wide-eyed up until this point and then he just broke into the hugest smile and gave this adorable belly laugh and said “ANTLERS!” Santa chuckled deliciously and said “my reindeer at the North Pole have antlers just like that!”
It was such a wonderful winter evening. And the best part was when we saw a little boy running after Santa. He was shouting “Grandpa, Grandpa!”