Laughing

I love laughing with friends. not just a little giggle or humph! but good ol' nostril flaring stomach grabbing laugh. The kind of laugh that when you are just thinking about how hard you were laughing makes you laugh.
Tonight I was talking with a good friend of mine. She has been at Texas Children's with her youngest son because he is having stomach pain. What started out as a truly heartfelt conversation quickly turned into a hysterical laugh fest on the phone. All it took was an innocent mispronunciation of a word and ta-da! We were trying to wheeze out our sentences but neither one of us could articulate what we were trying to say. I jokingly told her that I didn't need to do my crunches for the day, (like I do that anyway) but that is the laughter I am talking about.
I am no stranger to this kind of guffawing, I laugh with my husband, my sisters and many of my good friends. Anyway, I think it is great to laugh, somewhere I read that laughing makes you live longer. Listen, the next time you laugh hard about something, let loose! Give a good *snort*, maybe be close to a bathroom if you need to, just don't hold it in. When was the last time you had a gut grabbing laugh?