a laugh........

this made me belly laugh last nite....
let me see if i can set it up so someone else can
at least smile from it!

we have a routine in my house that just sorta happened
and now it's part of the nite time ritual.

i'm usually the first to head to bed. so after i'm all
cleaned up and sittin' in bed with a book, the kids will
wander in one at a time and sit down and talk. it doesn't
take long for everyone to gather and we end up tellin' stories
that haven't had a chance to get told yet, or talk about
something that's been bothering us or ask for advice from
the others on something. it's really a highlight of the day.
sometimes it's just goofin' and chattin'....but i guess most
times it's more than that.

that was clear last nite by yo yo's reaction to something
that happened!!!

zakk was the first one in and we were talkin'about the coolness
of the evening and the fans in the house and that kinda stuff.
i was asking him about his bedroom door as i wanted to make sure
he got some air flow thru there. it was a technical house conversation.

yo walked in and sat down in a chair. he heard me ask zakk
about his closed door. there was a little back and forth between
zakk and i before yo sat up and leaned forward in his chair...
his eyes were all scrunched up and he looked totally confused.

and the he said:
"are you talkin' about a REAL door?? a door door???"

my turn to look confused.
my turn to scrunch.
uh huh.

"OHHHHHHHHH" he says and leans back. "i thought you were talkin'
about a door inside zakk. inside his feelings or something."

i leaned back into my pillows and just belly laughed!!!!
what can it possibly be like for these three young men to be
growin' up with all this talk of their inner feelings????
when talk of doors is talk of your insides....when the question
'how are your insides today' is normal......when they're quized
on what was going on psychologically in a certain happening in
their lives????

i went to sleep grinnin........

i love them so much.