Laughter.

1st of may has been a big day in our lives for the past couple of years. It was the day the Africa adventure started for us, it was the day we came back from Africa, it was my due date for having our beautiful baby ( although I, or more so SHE was two weeks late). And it will definitely be a day I will never forget, as it is the date I amde some life long relationships on, including my lovely husband. We didn't actually meet on 1st of may, but those were the teams we were on to go to Malawi as we both got set back for very different reasons, but I'd like to think, ultimately it was all down to faith.

I was rembering my team mates on the 1st and was reminded by one of them about the weird questions I ask people and how my mind goes on overdrive as I throttle on my quest to make sense of the universe. My particular quetion had been " what would life be without laughter?"

I don't like asking that question, because if someone could answer me it would all make me too sad to go on, I think.  If every person has one thing they are remembered for, I think I would like that to be mine. Laughter. I always think that if I didn't have something to laugh about every day, life wouldn't be worth living. I still think that, and I will continue to think that until the day I die, or laughter does. They say that laughter keeps us young, and I firmly believe that, as even in the saddest of times, a burst of involuntary giggle will give you the strength of 10 men and the will to go on living. 

When our baby girl was two days old, she gave me her very first smile. It melted my heart and I took so much pride in the fact that I, or more to the point we, had made her, and she was perfect. My friend's baby started laughing so early on and was always giggling away for nothing, and I would be doing my best bits for my little one, and no sound would come out of her big grinning face. it got to a point when I actually thought something was wrong. But when she did, it was the most beautiful sound in the world and I swear I will never forget it. And all the time I put in to get it out of her were so worth the effort because there's nothing better than making your own child laugh. Now she laughs at anything and everything, and the house is always full of fits of giggles, but the first one will stay with me for life. That one was just for me. 

If for anything I hope I will be remerbered for the laughter, because that's what I always remember.