It makes me ridiculously happy when...

..."my kids," meaning my students, laugh at something like they don't have a care in the world. If you know me well, you know that I LOVE to laugh and I do it often. Some people in my life have thought that I fake laugh sometimes, but it is always sincere. I was just blessed with a sense of humor that allows me to think that everything is funny. So when "my kids" laugh like that it makes my heart feel like it is going to jump out of my chest. I love to see them happy.

P.S. One of my kids is reading to himself right now and chuckling while reading "The Diary of a Wimpy Kid" and that also makes me happy.