Amazing and Hopeful

So on Tuesday, I was like many millions of Americans who watched the inauguration while I supposed to be working. It was slow at work and I have 2 monitors so I continued to do what I would've done anyway. So I couldn't believe how emotional I got watching it all. I cried on Tuesday watching Biden and Obama being sworn in and during Obama's speech. And then again on Tuesday afternoon while watching a Tivo'd episode of Oprah from Monday and listening to Joe Biden speak and then again while they did a video montage of Martin Luther King, Jr and Barack Obama... it was just so powerful. I first "met" Barack Obama a couple years ago while watching Oprah, just a senator and before any announcement of running for president. It was that day that I feel for him. Just listening to him speak and how eloquent and poised he was even then. And then there's Michelle Obama and how they look at each other and the admiration between them... you can't fake that, it's a genuine love between them. Oprah did ask him that day if he was going to run for president in 2008 and I don't know his exact words, but I remember thinking that day that if he ran for president, I would back him, which I did without any doubts. He just gave me so much to look forward to and I think that's what this country needs right now, the HOPE that we can be better and do more. Even if he doesn't accomplish everything he set out to do, he will have accomplished something much more then our last president and that is bringing hope and excitement to the American people.

I can remember before Sami was born how terrified I was to be bringing a child into this broken world of ours and it's only gotten worse since she was born... but Tuesday changed that. I no longer fear having a child in this world of ours, I feel so much hope and belief that maybe not in the next couple years, but at least in the next decade, we will be a better nation. A place where our children can thrive and a nation to once again be proud of and you can't put a price on that. And the most amazing part of it all, it took only one man. A man whose mother probably never held him in her arms and thought "Son, you will someday bring this nation together and be president". That's powerful to me... when I look at Sami, I just hope that she makes the right decisions and is happy in her life, but there's now the possibility to look at her and think she could someday be president of the United States. AMAZING!!!