This is a big week for America and for me in particular. Barack Obama takes office and my auto worker husband goes back to work. Yipppeeeee!
As Americans we are excited. We don’t expect to wake up and find a repaired and thriving country overnight, but we have hope! There is a buzz of optimism in the air. We are motivated and ready to go to work. What will happen over the next four years can only be speculated. But at this moment right now, anything can happen!
We cannot put too much on our new president, though. It doesn’t matter how good our leader is if we do not do our parts. We have to work for it, it will not be handed to us. America was once a great place because it was a place where people could come to achieve the American Dream. Those people worked for it though. Today we think it is entitled to us. It isn’t enough to dream the dream. We have to reach for it.
Oh but we’ve become jaded over the years. Depressed. Hopeless. Sometimes we DID reach and we DID do the work, but nothing happened. “The man” didn’t want us to thrive. Guess what! There’s a NEW “Man” in town and he wants us to thrive, to succeed, to LIVE!
Now I don’t mean to brag, but I for one will be thriving a little bigger than everyone else this week. Not only am I all hopped up on patriotism and hope, but my Hubby, who was on and off work all last year goes back to work after a solid five weeks off. Yipppeeeee!
Not that his five weeks off did not have value. Why, thanks to that time off my Hubby was able to teach me the “proper” way to load the dishwasher and how to REALLY clean the kitchen. I also learned that my job at home is really easy and Hubs even counseled me on how better to manage my real estate clients. It was all really super and I am sad to see him go back to work.
Oh wait. I got caught up in my own sarcasm. I am not sad at all! I am THRILLED! Although I am coming to accept that my “routine” is to actually not have a routine, (thanks to so much inconsistency in Hub’s work and kid’s schedules) I am still excited to have my home office to myself again and put back together my version of routine. Now if only I could get the weather to cooperate so we quit having all these snow days!
What are you excited about as our new administration begins?
As an Aussie, I can only look on from a distance. We have had pretty pedestrian leaders here for a long, long time from both major parties. I really hope that Obama is even half as good as everyone seems to be expecting. I laughed about your helpful husband and so wish him a safe and speedy return to work. Men and women really are wired differently!
Hehe. My boyfriend is the same, he wants everything nice and neat and im the opposite and he always tries to show me how i can “improve” things…but naha, i believe theres some order in my mess, he just doesnt understand. Congrats with your new president, here in Spain (and the rest of Europe) We are hoping he will do very well.
All the best for Barack Obama for going to take good job for US. I feel he will do better job..
I’m not American, but I followed Obama’s campaign closely. From the early days when he wasn’t yet considered a viable presidential candidate by people within his own party, to the setting up of his impressive ground game / volunteer system, to the election, and then to what he’s done since with his appointments. I look forward with measured optimism to the day he takes over because he seems to me to be a very thoughtful, utterly competent chap, who is willing to listen and learn, even from those who disagree with him. Congratulations, America.
I am happy that we have a chance to try and get it right this time. I know Barack has a lot of work ahead of him and I DO hope we all find a way to help bring this country back to prosperity and along with it, the rest of the world. He can NOT do it alone!
Did you see the letter from Alice Walker? I may post it on my blog: http://creativitylifecoaching.blogspot.com/
Thanks everyone for such warm and thoughtful comments. Whether you were cheering for America or identifying with my hubby’s “helpfulness” it made a great day even more spectacular to read what you all had to say.
Snow does suck! I have to agree that there is an air of optimism. Now that Dick and Bush are out I feel much better about the country. Hopefully everything will go well.
I love the snow, only not when i have to shovel it off my driveway so i can go to work. I do think our new president is going to do a great job here for us.