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I have taken up playing Scrabble with John in the evenings. Mostly I hate boardgames. I always have. But, Scrabble is his favourite and I believe it is important to do things that you don't like doing just to make other people happy sometimes. Besides, I'll do anything if I can win and, I do win from time-to-time. In fact, I spelled the word "Laughter" in our second game and got a whopping 101 points for it which meant that not only did I win the game, I kicked some serious ass. I sat pondering my letters for a very long time before the word came to me, which is surprising when I think about it because laughter is something that we have plenty of in our life.

I have always laughed a lot. I used to get in trouble in school for laughing in fact. I even had the bus driver pull over on the side of the highway one day and tell me to get off the bus because I was a nuisance with all my laughter. You can imagine, that only made the situation worse. We laughed even harder. I don't know why I didn't get off the bus. It seems completely unlike me to disobey an order. I must have apologized and the bus driver must have come to her senses. I am pretty sure there is something illegal about dumping a teen on the side of the road, no matter how *happy* they are. As far as I am concerned, we will have done a bang-up job raising Rowan if the only thing he ever gets in trouble for in school is laughing too much.

Here is a video of his early career as a laugher. Notice who is encouraging this bad behaviour. Imagine! I am sorry you have to turn your head or computer to see this properly. I am still learning to use my camera's video application. Shoot me.