My 1st Time

No, no not that!

What I mean is that for the 1st time since I've been able to vote, the candidate that I voted for won.

It's exciting. I traditionally live in a red state, and last night it went blue, for the first time since LBJ was elected. That was in 1963. 45 years of being red...

Mike and I watched the celebration in Grant Park, and the concession speech given by McCain.

CNN still hasn't called Indiana even though 99% of the precincts are reporting and the vote tally is

Obama: 1,352,356

McCain: 1,329,370

That's a difference of 22,986. That's not many people, but it's enough.

However, right now, we all need to stop thinking and celebrating/mourning about who won, and who lost, but what we can do together to make this presidency work, to strengthen the economy, to improve healthcare, to get ourselves back on our feet.

One man cannot do this by himself. We have to do it together, so I'm going to do my best not to gloat after this post of course, but for now:

The Speech

Change of Venue

Well, Surviving just hasn't done what I thought. Things really didn't pan out the way that we all thought with Dad's cancer. He got good news right before Christmas that his tumor isn't growing and that he can be on the chemo drugs for a really long time. So it's good news and I guess I don't feel the need to vent and go on about it now.

So I thought that Surviving needs to change from "Surviving" cancer, to "Surviving" motherhood and life with a toddler.

Some of you know that we have a 2 year old son. He was adopted from Guatemala (More some other time, because that was an experience!) and having an instant toddler in the house definately makes for interesting times.

Of course the big thing right now is Christmas and presents! In a day or two I'll post some pictures, but they aren't here at work... ahem, where I'm blogging, heh.

Our son really had a great time with Christmas this year, from making cookies, to opening gifts, to eating cookies, to trying to opening other people's gifts.

I'm really hoping that things will pick up now with the blog that it isn't a depressing topic. I'll still update about Dad, just don't want it to be the whole focus.

Stay tuned for more photos!