YES We Can!

When The Announcement flashed across the screen (CNN, of course) that Barack Obama would be next President, the phone ran off the hook. Heather's aunt uttered, "Thank you, Jesus! I'm 73 ... and never thought I'd live to see this day." My Dad beamed with pride ... Michael Laing, my friend who now lives in Hawaii (and this Blog's most loyal reader), cried like a baby. Like a lot of us, I too never thought I'd see this day in my lifetime. Seriously, I never even thought this day would ever come -- because it never ever crossed my mind. Imagine the story I will tell Max and Marco tomorrow morning: Paleontologist? Professional soccer player? Dude, you can be anything. Even President. Barack Obama is Exhibit A. --Mark

To that I would only add that dreams are funny things. They have this crazy way of living on, long after the dreamer sometimes. Sometimes they grow bigger than the dreamer could ever have imagined. So, yeah, Max and Marco dreamed right through the actual event. We tried so hard to wake them, shake them to get them up and let them know that the dream is real. They didn't budge. Neither one of them. But for all we know, they knew it already, long before their heads hit the pillow. Who knows what's going through their heads right now. No doubt, some combination of Bakugan, Transformers, Ben 10, Barack and other superheroes, you know?