E Pluribus Unum: "Out of Many, One."

Today is Inauguration Day. A very special day in history. Today plays out the dreams that our forefathers had when they first came to this country and that Martin Luther King had for all of us. Today proves that every dream is possible for all our children - isn't that the best message possible! I sit here and wonder, what will the future hold for my boys. President Obama will be taking his oath on the bible that Abraham Lincoln used for his inauguration, it has never been used since Lincoln. May our blessings and prayers go with President Obama today and that he can live out his dream, by making this a better America and showing us, how we can be a positive force in our own country.

This is how I explained race to my sons, that when God flooded the earth after Noah made the ark, when it was over, God gave the people a gift and promised never to destroy the earth again. That gift was a rainbow. I then told them that God's people are also part of that rainbow, different colors, sizes, everything. We are a rainbow of people - inside each of us is exactly the same, but on the outside we color the earth with all the beauty our smiles and love can offer. When everyone was talking about this Inauguration being a day in history, Austin asked me one day "why was this historical", he didn't understand why Obama being of a different race had anything to do with it. To Austin, what was the big deal, why couldn't Obama be President. I felt my heart warmed, that I had done my job of raising him without putting labels on people. So at age 10, someone's color meant nothing to him.

E pluribus unum: "Out of many, one." Now even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us -- the spin masters, the negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of "anything goes." Well, I say to them tonight, there is not a liberal America and a conservative America -- there is the United States of America. There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America -- there’s the United States of America. - President Obama from his Democratic National Convention keynote address

Today, the boys are decorating the family room with red, white and blue streamers and flags, we will watch the inauguration ceremony from home and hopefully they will remember this day in history (of course, Connor and myself have strep throat and are extremely under the weather, glad we hadn't planned to go downtown). Here is a short poem that has been on the internet, not sure who wrote it but it makes its point that each of us can make a difference, even if its just one small piece, it makes a difference.

Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk.

Martin Luther King walked so Barrack Obama could run.

Obama ran so that our children can fly.