I was asked recently, around the time Chris and I celebrated our anniversary, “what makes for a successful marriage?”

In our case, the answer is easy- laughter.  A lot of it.  You can’t take yourself or everything going on around you too seriously.

An example?  Our luck with cars recently.  Just before leaving for India, Chris noticed his car was making a noise.  Which never happens at a good time, but just after a big trip and close to holiday is a horrible time.  He had it looked at and the good news was that it was not the expensive thing he thought it was.  It was worse.  Like get a new car worse.

So off he went to look at new cars one Saturday.  So I took Aidan to karate.  On the way home, while waiting for the light to change, a pick up truck came around the corner and a washing machine hit my car.  Yeah, that happened.  It fell off the truck and hit the corner of my car.

Chris went to pick up his new car and it was too late to park it on the street because of resident parking hours and not having time to get a pass.  So he put it in the garage.  Except that he wasn’t able to judge the mirrors and hit the passenger side.  It fell and smashed.  Ug.

Sometimes all you can do is laugh.