the blue blog archives: inauguration day

B, after school: "Did you see the inauguration?"
Me: "Yes, I did. Did you get to see it?"
B: "Yeah!"
Me: "And what did you think?"
S: "It was sooooo boring."
B: "I liked the singing."

Yes, the singing was good. And sometimes even boring things can change the world.

posted by alison at 5:00 pm | in just blogging 2009

Comments

What a glorious day this has been!!

Posted by: Cynthia at January 20, 2009 5:39 PM

Amen to that.

Posted by: Wendy O'C at January 20, 2009 7:48 PM

A-women! I had to shush my co-workers several times today while I listened to the ceremonies on the radio. I was moved nearly to tears a few times during the speeches knowing that I live in a new country now. God bless us all!

Posted by: Libby at January 20, 2009 9:57 PM

I have to admit to tears streaming down my face! I never expected to see an African American president & to have it be my senator makes me even prouder. All I can say is that, if he is even half as good a president as he has been a senator, he will be one of the best we've ever had. A true story told to me in 2004, when Barack was running for the senate, by Jan Schakowsky, an Illinois rep from the north suburbs when she & Danny Davis, my rep, came to talk to my union: she had recently been to the Oval Office to discuss some bill with Bush & others & as she was leaving, he pointed to her very large Obama button & made some crack about her wearing an Osama bin Laden button -supporting terrorists or something. Hopefully, he was just trying to make a joke but she said he didn't seem to have the foggiest idea of who Barack Obama was. Guess he knows now!

Posted by: Donna at January 20, 2009 11:16 PM

And doubly boring for small English children to watch! Because of the time difference, when the live TV coverage started it was just after school finished. So Spongebob won, sadly.

Posted by: Kate at January 21, 2009 2:44 AM

Want to have fun with the boys? http://obamiconme.pastemagazine.com/ let's you upload a photo and they convert it to look like that now famous campaign poster. Maybe one day you can move into the Whie House to help raise your grandchildren!

Posted by: Liz Andrsn at January 21, 2009 9:05 AM

I made my two watch it too after school, and after an hour my eldest (9) said 'I just want to go to sleep'. I think the momentousness of it was lost on them!

Posted by: Cybèle de Jong at January 21, 2009 11:29 AM

Oh, Liz, that obama icon thing is too funny! I love the House one and the Bush one - hilarious!

Posted by: ALISON at January 21, 2009 3:46 PM

My daughter, a freshman in HS, watched it with her whole school. In true HS fashion she pronounced it "OK", but she and her friends are all buzzing about it on Facebook.

Posted by: AuntieAnn at January 21, 2009 4:01 PM

My 17 year old is completely envious of one of her classmates who went to the inauguration with her mother. Now I wish I had gone. Momentous day. You are certainly living Obama's message with the warm quilts you are making for your aunt's friends. Caring community--that's what it's all about. On the local and national and internation levels.

Posted by: gail at January 21, 2009 9:49 PM

Love the quilt. Got the same reaction from my boys. Boring. But at least we got the discussion going.

Posted by: Jennifer at January 22, 2009 9:25 AM

My boys felt the same way...boring. They "read" Lego catalogs and magazines through most of it--snow day, no school. It was fun to watch it with the whole fam though (DH stayed home from work to watch it).

Posted by: Lisa at January 22, 2009 12:38 PM

How funny those teens are, AuntieAnn!

Lisa, I'm sure if my boys had been home, they'd have "read" their Lego catalog too! It's their favorite "book"! :D

Posted by: ALISON at January 22, 2009 12:45 PM

I hope, that Obama will make the world a little bit better and I know, that a lot of Germans think the same way than me.

Greetings from Hamburg
Heike

Posted by: Heike at January 23, 2009 1:02 PM

LOL. Oh I agree with S! what little I saw of it was on the news in the evening after work...the part with the priest or whatever...snore.
and Parades are okay, if you are there...but I don't much have patience to watch them on TV.
Besides I was busy with my own...Gil's birthday is inaguration day :-D

Posted by: Orli at January 25, 2009 3:05 AM