Awaiting Change

You know, I gotta say that I'm Super-Excited (a new term that I often used nowadays) about Election Day!! I'm proud to say that I'm voting for Obama, and I really feel that with him as President, we'll get the change that we have all been waiting for. I look at the debates and the ads that come across the tv and sometimes I get so pissed by the actions, and/or comments, what I feel is ignorance, and arrogance of the other candidates. I sit at home with Chef C and we occassionally blurt out "not so nice things" to the television. But, as I'm watching, I see Obama listening attentively to McCain awaiting his turn to deliver an answer to a question that was directed to both he and McCain. Now, it's obvious that Obama doesn't like and is not in agreeance with a lot of the things that McCain has to say. But, never, not once have I seen Obama lose it!! He listens, looks up briefly and cracks a confident smile. It really makes me want to be a little more humble. It's inspiring....and most of all, it's history in the making!! It's a blessing that we can be a part of it!

What was absolutely mind blowing to me is this...

So, I'm in line at the grocery store. I look over and I see Barack and Michelle Obama on a magazine cover with their kids. My daughter (Mini Diva) is at the age where she is all up in mommy's business...or wants to be anyway. So, she notices that I'm reading the cover. She says "Mommy, I didn't know O'rock Barama had kids" I looked at her and said, "You know who that is"? She said "Uh, yea" as if to say...."what? And you don't? Where have you been?" Now, of course she didn't say that, but that's what her tone suggested that she was trying to say. Not to mention the fact that she pronounced his name wrong (that's neither here, nor there), that really didn't matter to me! MY SIX YEAR OLD BABY KNEW WHO HE WAS!!! I was so proud!! She told me that they talk about the debates, and the presidential election in school which is important to me because even though she's only in first grade, young children sometimes have input and their own opinions about topics as important as this one that I think todays leaders (parents, teachers, counselors, pastors, senators, presidents) should be ready to listen to!
After all, they are tomorrows leaders.

So, if you have'nt done so already, sit down with your kids, ask questions about who they'd vote for and why. Let them tell you how they feel about the presidential election and how it can effect not only your family, but billions of families across the world. You never know what they'll say, you may be shocked at how much they actually know.

Have a blessed weekend.

ANOTHER MAMA 4 OBAMA!!