Over the past few weeks, I’ve been thinking way back to
eight years ago. I was pregnant. And it
was the height of the primary season ahead of the 2008 presidential election.
Not knowing the genders of the babies just yet, I assumed –
for the sake of conversation – that we had one boy and one girl. And I gave them the in-utero names Barack and
Hillary.
I remember my colleagues and I had some fun with that
one.
Hee hee!
Fast-forward eight years to today, ahead of the 2016
presidential election. We’re still
having lots of political dialogue…but this time the girls are more verbal
participants. Here are a couple of my
more recent faves…
“Mommy, why don't you run for president?”…and then, “Well, you’re
the president of our house.”
And when I mentioned that Daddy couldn’t be president
[because he’s not a natural-born citizen], Baby B piped up before I could
elaborate, “Because he’s Independent!”
Hahaha!
I’m hoping my girls will always have a passion for politics
and world events. Heaven knows we
started ‘em early!
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| My red, white, and blue babies! |
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Shout-out to the always awesome Cheryl at Twinfatuation for inspiring this Way Back-Whenesday post!
OH. MY. GOSH. LOVE that your two in-utero were Barack and Hillary.
ReplyDeleteHere's what our two were doing---at 7---at that same time. :)
http://twinfatuation.blogspot.com/2008/06/our-political-pair-and-primaries.html
Our kiddos CLEARLY need to meet!
Love you, and your two...and thanks for playing along!
My two were called The Girl and The Boy in utero :)
ReplyDeleteYour elections are fascinating to me.... in a watching an accident kind-of way :0