Don't Count Your Chickens

The vice-president speeches at my son's school this morning were anti-climactic.  I didn't even have time to set up the video camera to record DK's speech before he was done saying it.  Oh, well.  At least I got to take a picture of him giving it and he knows it was important to me because I actually showed up at assembly.  I have only been to assembly one time this year and that was for the first day of school.   I am blessed that my husband takes the kids to school with him every morning.  But today I was nervous and excited for DK and his speech so IK and I made the half-hour trek over to school.   It was actually very nice being there to watch assembly and now I'm wondering if I shouldn't help my hubby out on Mondays and take the kids in... Nah.  

Speaking of speeches reminds me of elections. We are actually thinking of getting a sitter and going to the Driskill tomorrow night to watch the election results with other Democrats.  We would love to host a party at our house but most of our friends have kids and would need to go home about the time that the results are starting to come in from the polls closing.  Bummer.  

Sometimes I get nervous that we are counting our chickens before they hatch.  Every where I look, I read some analysis of what went wrong with McCain's campaign.  Yes, selecting Palin probably made him go down in the polls eventually, but People... IT'S NOT OVER!   Anything can go wrong.  Today on NPR, they were saying that small town voters will have a big impact in some of the swing states.  That worries me a lot -- small towns are full of Republicans, right???Then they had a story about how long the lines are expected to be tomorrow and that might deter the younger voters who are overwhelmingly for Obama.  They interviewed a young man in a swing state who had been waiting in line for 3 hours to cast his early vote.  It was the first time he voted and he said he didn't mind waiting that long because he knew he was casting a historic vote.  I hope other young voters feel the same way he does.  

I am so glad the election is tomorrow.  I cannot go on like this.  I can feel the anxiety inside of me.  I hope with all my heart that Obama wins.  Can you imagine the celebrations that will ensue if he does win?  I will be the first to go out on the streets and light some candles and sing something.  Hallelujah!  The first Black man to be elected President!  The feeling of victory is starting to pump into my blood and it feels GOOD!   

But there I go again, counting chickens....I wish it were 10pm Tuesday night already....

TTYL.