So, I think Obama is president. Daughter #2 is watching some sort of garbage on TV and I think Daughter #1 is sleeping – since I have too go through Daughter#2’s room to visit with her, I don’t as often. I am curled up in my room with NPR. Do we need a living room? If we had one would we all be sitting around watching election returns together? I wish we had that sort of family time. I wonder if there is something I can do to still make it happen or if it just is not who we are. I’m a little sad about that.

D#2 was really into voting. D#1 didn’t – she said she didn’t have a reason to vote for either one so she thought it was only fair to just not vote. I am feeling really happy that we finally have someone in office who might just want this country to look a bit like I want it to look. And very pleased to have a black president. I don’t know what it will mean for my African American daughters, but I hope there is some sort of attitudinal shift that this is part of. D#1 has a lot of internalized racism that she readily expresses. this has just got to do *something* positive.