The Home That Laughed: Build a Home Filled with Laughter, Love, and Joy in the Lord

What will your kids remember about growing up in your home? The routines? The business? Or will they remember a home filled with laughter, connection, belonging, and genuine joy?

In this episode of The Project Revival Podcast, Laura is joined by her husband, Chase, for a different kind of conversation about The Home They Remember.

As parents, it’s easy for everyday life to become a cycle of getting everyone dressed, finishing homework, cleaning the house, making dinner, correcting behavior, and getting ready to do it all again tomorrow. Somewhere along the way, the playfulness that came so naturally when our children were little can begin to disappear.

Laura and Chase talk candidly about trying to build a home where their children don’t simply know, “My parents love me,” but also know, “My parents enjoy being with me.”

From ridiculous forts and bedroom swings to kitchen dance parties, family inside jokes, road-trip “banana” moments, dad jokes, and the ordinary chaos of raising kids, this episode explores why some of the smallest moments may become the memories our children carry with them for life.

But laughter is about more than having fun. Laura and Chase also discuss why teasing can become deeply hurtful, how humor can sometimes diffuse tension, and why knowing our children’s individual personalities matters when we’re trying to teach and correct them.

Most importantly, they explore what joy communicates about our faith. “A joyful heart is good medicine.” — Proverbs 17:22

Following Jesus isn’t meant to steal the joy from our homes. He is the source of it. And if more is caught than taught, one of the most powerful things we can give our children may be the example of parents who genuinely find joy in God, in one another, and in the family He has given them.

So here’s the challenge for this week: find two or three intentional opportunities to make your kids laugh. Tell jokes. Play a ridiculous game. Turn on some music then dance and be silly together. Create the kind of ordinary moments they may one day look back on and realize weren’t ordinary at all.