Laughing

My favorite quote was in an article in BYU magazine! I feel like I'm famous or something! Stardom achieved! It's even my quote on Facebook! Though, I guess W.H. Auden could be as well known an author as they come.

The article on laughter is an excellent one. You can find it here. It was written by an English professor at the Y. Every once in awhile I really just wish I had stuck with my English major.

So, the other night I was reading a book with my niece, Juliette, that she had to read for school. She's in Kindergarten, so it was a beginning reader. The text of the book goes something like this:

Clifford bakes a cake.
KC will help bake the cake.
Amy will help bake the cake.

KC has the milk.
Amy has the sugar.

and etc. etc.

I was joking with her the whole time about how it was the MOST EXCITING BOOK I HAD EVER READ. She, of course, knew I being sarcastic, and we were struggling to get through this page turner because we were laughing so hard. I even told her to tell her teacher that her aunt said it was a page turner. The next day I asked her if she told her teacher what I had said about it, she said yes, and that her teacher had laughed. Oh, how I love to make people laugh.

While we were reading (I don't know how we even decided to do this, because it wasn't discussed; however, I think I've talked with her before about how I think it's fun to fake laugh) we started to have a contest to see who could fake laugh the longest. So, we are laughing and laughing and laughing. The reason this all started was that Juliette was lying on top of me trying to get through this heart stoppingly (not a word, I realize) exciting book and she was taking forever to do so because she was laughing so much. So, when our laughing finally dies down she says to me, "I won. You know why? Because I was laughing for real." Oh, how I love her.

Juliette is just about the cutest girl in the world. You should see the girl hula hoop. She is AMAZING! I've never seen anyone as good as she is. She can go on and on forever. It's so cute to see her little body move back and forth. And, of course, she is laughing the whole time. Her laugh is the most contagious thing in the world.

And why are my people and my blog archive all the way down at the bottom? Can anybody help me out with this? I can't change it in the layout. I don't know how it ended up down there. The appearance of my blog (as you know) is of utmost importance; therefore, this needs to be corrected.