When I wrote about the White House green water fountains yesterday, I had no idea that it was Michelle's idea to bring a bit of her Chicago home to the nation's capitol. In Chicago they color the river green for St. Patrick's Day. So, in her St. Paddy's green, winter fur-lined boots, Michelle put a Mom's focus on the current holiday and the White House, for the first time, watched the dancing green waters rise and sink and made DC a little more like her Chicago home.
In this terrible time of our children seeing the expectation of ethics, morals and standards from respected business leaders and politicians being disregarded, it's refreshing and a bit of an escape from personal depression to see Michelle's Mom-enthusiasm for getting-into holiday spirit and bringing St. Patrick Day green to the White House. Her children awoke to see that the White House lawn fountain went green-for-day...
...'cause being a Mother gets you into all holiday spirits. Moms get into Christmas Tree decorating, Easter egg hunts and Thanksgiving dinner table autumn centerpieces big time. Michelle exemplifies Moms. I wonder if she instructed the White House chef to make green mashed potatoes for her kids while AIG's CEO Liddy was in the Senate hot seat, Senator Chris Dodd's nose was growing like Pinocchio's and nobody in the world was green with envy to be President of these United States?
I like Michelle's plan for her kid's living naturally and it's natural for Mom's to make a big deal about holidays. Once I was a "Mom" fixed on making life the best and most fun it could be for my kids. It's with mixed emotions as a Granny now, as I watch green gook come to surface in my outdoor spa cause I can't afford professional pool-cleaning service anymore, to know that Senators lie just like Madoff schemers, my taxes are going to unwarranted AIG, Fannie and Freddie executive bonuses and coloring the White House fountain water green for a day.
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