Oh.My.God. Is this really happening? Are we about to make Barack Obama are first African-American president today? I just can't believe it. Everyone always say that you can be anything, do anything, but today I think I actually believe it. Whoopi Goldberg said it best on The View. I can look into the eyes of my beautiful little brown baby boys and tell them to unpack their bags. Hallelujah, God is good!

Just checking in...

Things are going pretty good. I am still searching for full-time employment. This part-time thing just isn't getting it done for me. I want to buy another car and move by early next year, but that will only happen if I get a better job and get some money in the bank. I'm accepting prayers in that department.
My "stalker" is gone. There has been no contact in over a year, but he has been seen driving by my place. Along with his girlfriend and her son, it's a whole family of crazies, which is why I want to move. My restraining order expires next year, and because I have proven that I will have a fool arrested, it has keep them at arm's length, but I need to be long gone when they have the freedom to come back around.
My kiddo's are getting so big. Lady Day turns 12 in a couple of weeks and will probably be taller than me within a year. At 5'6" I'm the shortest one in a family of giants. Bubba is steady losing teeth and acting right in school, even being named Student of the Month and given Kujichagulia awards (they attend a school that focuses on Africentric culture). He is currently suffering from Nintendo-itis, since he has played the DS or GameBoy non-stop for days. AJ is growing into a pensive little thing. A boy after my own heart, but if I have to watch another Pokeman video, someone may not make it out alive! Bear should have been named Dennis the Menace because my days are spent undoing everything he does. The Poet should have been named Baby Bear. Not only does she look just like him, but she shouts for joy when he wakes up each morning and follows him around all day.

OBAMA WON!!!! I still get teary eyed when I think about it.

Bristol Palin named her son Tripp. Why do they curse these boys with such names? What's next? Triangle?

And now we find out that her 17-year old daughter is 5 months pregnant?! You have got to be kidding me. What happened to the "moral majority" who blasted Brittany's little sister (can't remember her name) for being such a bad role model? Where was the forgiveness then? Wasn't it clever how she was almost always hiding her tummy by holding Trig? Granted Bristol's not running for office, but I watched CNN last night amazed when it was dismissed as a "childhood mistake" and everyone needs to stop making such a big deal about it. While you're pregnant it's a mistake, once you have that baby, it is no longer a mistake, it's a lifetime commitment. Shame on these people for wanting to dismiss it like it's no big deal. Teenage pregnancy (and the shotgun wedding to follow) is a huge deal and I just think it would be respectable to say, this girl screwed up, but let's not hold her mother responsible. Except I bet mommy's re-thinking that abstinence only and no sex in schools thing, huh?

I'm mad that she named her daughter Bristol anyways. And I pray that Track and Trig are just nicknames. My friend and I had this discussion the other night. Do parents really not care what they name their kids, or the nicknames they use? I have nicknames for all 5 of my kids. I do not use them in public. I don't want AJ to abandon me in the old folks home one day because I called him Tootie Booty in public. My neighbor calls her son Fat Fat. He's not fat, it's just what she called him as a baby and it stuck. Cute at home, not cute in public. And I was flipping through the channels and there was a lady who called herself Pokey Jones. What? If you can buy a beer in a bar, it's not cute to refer to yourself as Pokey, or Peaches, or Honey Bear. And be mindfull of initials. I don't have to know her to guarentee Piper Palin was called "Pee Pee" in school.
And to my friend who named her son Teddy Graham Jones, no one's amused but you, and yes, I'll share my magazines my kids bring me to the old folks home because ol' Teddy Graham is still bitter from years of childhood torture.

Did anyone watch the convention? I normally don't watch either party's show, but I couldn't turn away from this one. Some of the speeches were boring, but most were decent. I look forward the the Republican convention next week, though I imagine I won't be as mesmerized.

And McCain picked a woman for his VP? Brillant! Trying his best to pick up Hillary's supporters, isn't he?

I'm bummed because I didn't get to vote in the primaries Tuesday. Mommy things came up, but I really believe Hillary took Ohio because Republicans got to vote. I have a friend who's Republican and I'm sure she voted for Hillary for that reason. I've heard TV personalities say the same thing. It's amazing how they are pushing for her to win because they believe McCain has a better chance of beating her over Orocka Obama (as my daughter calls him). I was just wondering, do you vote with your party or do you vote according to the candidate?
If you can forget about each candidate, do you think our country will benefit more by having a Black president or a female president? I don't want a rant on the high or low points of Barack or Hillary. Think about it if it was any Black man running or any woman running.