What a great day today! I got up this morning to watch the inauguration of our new President this morning with my two sons. What a heart-warming day for all of America. It seems like it has been such a long wait from November 4th to today, but I'm glad it's finally here. I hope this is a day they'll remember forever.

This is the first political campaign I was ever involved in and my boys were my partners in it, particularly Blake. He helped me bake cookies to sell for an Obama fund-raiser. He went with me to my first call party and helped me host our call party. He took attendance, passed out call packets, and he sat with me on election night to cheer the results. Matt voted for the first time and spoke to his friends about his support for Barack Obama and hopefully helped them to make up their minds. I feel strongly that the results of this election and others to come will affect their entire future, so I'm glad I got them involved.


It is so comforting to think of our new President sitting up there in the Oval Office every day just trying his best to help us and make our country better. I am just visualizing our country healing a bit day by day under his watch.

My niece sent me some pictures that I wanted to share with you. It was in an E-mail called The Babies Know... and it shows all these great pictures throughout the campaign of Barack with babies and little kids. I do love to see a man who loves babies.


I've seen a number of inaugurations - I can't remember how many, probably 5 of them, but this was the first one I've been particularly excited to see. I'm working today, so I had to watch it in between my work and my E-mails, but it was a marvelous inauguration. They are estimating 1.5 million people showed up, the largest of any Inauguration to date. I think that speaks well of a good start to this Administration. I know I've been haunting the websites and leaving ideas and comments for them. I think it's great that they are opening themselves up for such good communication. I am confident that the trend will continue over the next four years.

I had to share a joke about being a Democrat in a strongly Republican state like ours - they say we used to be able to hold our political meetings in a phone booth, but we've been recruiting lately, so now we can hold them in a shipping container. With a 29% share in this election, I think we've moved up in the world. Next time - we're aiming for a football field!



Today also marks the day of former President Bush's departure back to Texas. Obviously, I'm not a fan, but I know a lot of you are Republicans and Bush/McCain supporters, so I won't share any of my thoughts on the subject. I'll just leave you with a picture.