Day 17 -- The Best Kind of Laughter

Today's prompt is... The Best Kind of Laughter

Have you ever laughed so hard that you swore you would have 6-pack abs? I have. And darn it, I didn't end up with the 6-pack abs, but it felt like I should've had them!

When my three best friends from high school and I get together for our girls weekends, this "6-pack abs laughter" ensues. We've all known each other for so long that we communicate with looks, weird voices, and essentially, 12-year old humor. 

We were trying to be all serious. Clearly, I have a killer poker face.

We can go for months without seeing or talking to each other, and pick back up like no time has passed. I think that's what makes our girls weekends so special -- it's total quality time where we catch up and laugh like we've never laughed before!

First and foremost, our weekends center themselves around food. Activities are planned around meals, because duh!, we love to eat! We've all reached the age where now a nap gets planned in sometimes. However, our past couple of times together has been for just about 24 hours... so we we've sucked it up without a nap. 😂

The selfie stick action shot...

Bursts of laughter have come from: shopping, a restaurant bathroom, driving, a dance-off, a fake fight, while one was sleeping... yet making noises, at a coffee shop... but trying to remember what one of us said (we still can't remember!), trying to take a group picture with a selfie stick, just looking at each other... it takes basically nothing to make us laugh! However, our bladders aren't as young as they once were. We have to be prepared for bursts of laughter now, if you know what I mean. 😉😁😂

I trust my life with these girls. We have been through it all together... bad perms, 80's clothing, high school, college, engagements, marriage, divorce, births of babies, miscarriages, the toddler years, the teenage years, deaths of parents, marriage of kids... and whatever happens in the future -- we've got each other. Point is, we are each others brains, mirrors, therapists, sisters, hand-holders, tear-wipers, cheerleaders, truth-speakers, prayer warriors, you name it.

If you ever see us together, we apologize. Maybe. I mean, we're basically comedians... we just haven't been discovered yet. Try not to be jealous. 😂 Well, WE think we're hilarious, anyway. HA!

I hope that you've all experienced pure joy & "6-pack abs" laughter in your life at some point. I'm lucky in that I can look at any one of these pictures & immediately start cackling!