Thank You Barack Obama...

Dear Mr. President-elect,

I am writing this (post) letter to say thanks. What you have done is organize my party. You have given all of us Democrats (and I do also say Americans) a direction. You send me more text messages than anyone else that I know (although I'm a 38 year-old non-texting kind of guy, I admit).

Back on February 12th, 2007 I posted this: Obama '08 I felt the emotion as you stood on the steps of the old Illinois state capital. It was real.

I posted Leaning 08Bama on July 25th, 2007. I said this:

I have to say that I am leaning towards supporting and voting for Barack Obama. He is raising the most money. (Not that it matters, just remember what happened to Howard Dean) He is doing the best in the debates. (Not that it matters, just remember what happened to Al Gore v. W in debates in 2000) What I like more than any other thing about him (and there is a lot of other things to like) is that he is and WAS opposed to this war.

And I'll never forget the excitement of Iowa in January of this year. What an amazing night Inspiration beats experience (Obama over Clinton in Iowa).

You even inspired me here in my hometown of Houston on February 19th, 2008: Thank You Houston I Love You and that's saying something down here in the conservative bible belt home of "W" himself.



This election has given me so much HOPE. I am energized and spirited. When I teach my history class and we discuss the election I have to hold back my enthusiasm, spirit, and ambition because I try to be even handed and let both sides show for my students. I want them to be good decision makers and not be handed an ideology, but rather develop one for their own. But, you made that REALLY hard to do. Thank you for challenging me in that way.

Thank you Mr. Obama (Mr. President-elect Obama, I love how that sounds) for giving me a wonderful moment with my four year-old son today. "Hey Aidan, who is the President of the United States of America?" He answered, "Barack Obama!" (with a big huge smile) February 18th, 2008: Aidan's Endorsement

I know this country is in good hands. But, more than that, I know this country is motivated to help, get involved, take our government back and start to solve the problems that challenge us. Tonight I really don't want to think about Wall Street, Mortgages, Bank Loans, Global Warming and our Educational System. I just want to smile for one night and say, "Whew, We Did It!"

Thanks for giving me this day. A day that I was able to say to my son, my students and my friends, "Anything is possible in America!"

norma's O pumpkin. carving you can believe in.

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Election thoughts

Norma and I voted last week. We are relieved that we will not have to wait in long lines today and that our vote is cast, done and over with. It takes a lot of the pressure off of the day. Aidan is sick today so I am home with him. That's the kind of reason that early voting works. It is great to be able to do it at a more convenient time and avoid surprises like 102 degree fevers from your four year old.

Luckily Aidan is feeling a lot better today. So today should be a good day. I will actually be trying to get a lot of correcting finished while he plays. :) Our end of the six week's period is on Friday, so it has been really hard to miss the last couple of days (I missed yesterday because of a field trip to Sam Houston State University for AVID).

I was really, really sad to hear that Barack Obama's grandmother passed away the day before the election. So sad to see that she did not get to see him elected as our 44th President.


This morning Obama got a good omen... Small New Hampshire Towns go to Obama in Landslide

We Have a Lot of Work To Do

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Palin Gets Prank'd

This is just unreal...


Do you think this is going to be big news this weekend? Wonder if SNL will do something on this tonight?

eatin chuy texmex

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Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween everyone. Hope it was fun!



Don't touch my candy... or I'll go "Rhino Ranger on you!"

Last night was fun. We went around our block (which is really a mile long circle. We probably hit 30 houses. Many did not have their lights on but more did than last year. The weather was great. We probably hit twice as many homes as last year. He was just bigger and could walk further, but we did basically carry the little guy home. He was exhausted.

It was pretty cute to see him with the older people who kept calling him back to the door, "Lemme see that great costume!" Aidan woke up this morning and said, "Can I have some candy?" That answer was NO! He needed to have some breakfast first. :)

Wow, I have a lot of candy... Mmmmmm.

Aidan from Halloween's past:

Roman Soldier

Friday is Halloween. And we were studying the Roman empire and more specifically the "Roman Soldier." I took advantage of the day...

We had a good time Friday as we learned about the life of a Roman Soldier in class.

The kid's reactions were pretty funny! Some went crazy. Others looked at me like I was just appearing to them as the very same guy with a tie and shirt on like every day. Weird.

I love teaching. Such a great job.

"Going Rogue"

This is one of the funniest bits that Jon Stewart has done in a long time...

Aidan's 4th Birthday Party

We had a great time at the park. See all the wonderful pictures here:
4th B'Day Party at the Park

new sweatshirt from aunt marla an uncle george. aidan loves it.

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