Sometimes, life is just good...

It just hit me as I'm sitting here.  I work with kids who have a lot of junk in their lives...parents who aren't the best, no parents, parents who use drugs, homelessness, domestic violence, poverty, just to name a few.  But right now, I have 18 kids in my class, and all I'm hearing is laughter.  This block is "Game Day", and I have 7 playing "Apples to Apples", 2 playing War, 2 playing chess, 3 playing "Screw Your Neighbor" (a card game), and 4 playing UNO.  Everyone is getting along...the "misfits", the "cool kids", the ones who are sometimes on the outside looking in... everyone is having a good time, and the laughter is the genuine laughter of teenagers just being teenagers.  It's a lovely sound, and it does the heart good!  :~)  Today is a good day.