Our conversation this morning in the breakfast table was totally focused on...yes, you guessed it, the Obama inauguration. My son was very informed! he said Obama is going to be the first African American President and the 44th president of United States of America. Well then he asked, " Mommy why were they no African American presidents in the world?" I said , " Countries other than America, like African countries have had African American presidents." Only a thoughtful nod ensued.
The dad pitched in and asked the son, do you remember when we visited DC, we bought you a T-shirt saying "Future President?" . My boy obvoiusly had been thinking of other stuff to answer. So now here he goes "who will be the president in four years dad?" "We don't know." "In ten years?" No" In thirty years?" Here we did something, we told him in unison "May be you". i started building castles, in the air ofcourse - dreaming to be the presidential grandma, living in the whitehouse to take care of my grandchildren etc etc.. the wail "nooooooooo" from my son jolted me back. He said "I want to be a basket ball palyer, no I don't like being the president" We tried reasoning out, being the president of America is the most powerful job in the world. He simply said he wanted to be the most powerful basketball player in the leagues of Micheal Jordon and Kobe bryant. Well there goes my dream!
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Well! Well! Don't let your hopes of him becoming a president dash to the ground. You know how kids keep changing their decisions about what they want to become in life. Someday,maybe someday he might just look at you from the pedestal giving his inaugural speech to this nation! :-)
Oh Wow! How I would love that:) Obama does inspire many dreams!
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