Sometimes, You Just Have to Laugh :)

Today was a very busy, fun, exciting crazy day with some of my family and closest friends. :) Lisa came out to good ol' Madco (AKA Madison County) with me to enjoy the lovely Comer Christmas parade, some antiquing, and a grand tour (lasting about 10 minutes) of D'ville. After she headed back to Athens, the Montgomery's loaded up our neighbors borrowed truck to go Christmas tree hunting, which was a grand adventure as always and there are plenty of pictures to prove it.  Although all of the trees are always gorgeous, we usually take at least an hour to pick out, decide on, take pictures with, and actually chop down a tree. After all of these "traditions," we finally brought the tree home in the dark, dreary, rainy evening. My amazing dad worked hard to trim the bottom off, get the stand ready, and then we all helped bring the prize tree (that it VERY fat!) inside our living room, where we eventually got started with some of the lights so that we would be able to start right with the rest of the decorating tomorrow.


After allllll of this hustle and bustle, stress in lifting, moving, and situating an 8 and a half foot tree, stringing the lights, and doing everything else, at around 10 this evening I heard a loud crash and screams from my family as "Big Bertha" took a tumble onto the floor. Although we had had a long day and knew that cleaning up would be a chore, instead of grumbling about the water on the floor or worrying about moving the tree immediately outside, we took a step back from the situation and began to laugh at the situation--tree on the floor, Maribel with turkey baster-straw contraption in hand trying to get all of the water out of the stand, and the rest of us dancing crazily to the music playing in the back ground. It's in moments like these that I realize how important it is to not take life to seriously.  I reach a point every once in a while where things are not going so good. Maybe I'm stressed out, agitated, or just generally upset. But inevitably I end up spending time with the people I love and laughing louder and longer than usually. I think it's because I realize, deep down, that these are the moments that I will remember and cherish. Not the tests or projects, not the sorrows of yesterday, not even the way we felt when the Christmas tree first fell. I will instead be reminded of the joyful people in my life and the blessings I've been able to experience with them. Sometimes, you just have to laugh.