i am a bad american. i didn't watch president obama's inauguration speech yesterday. i still have not heard it in its entirety. i was delivering meals on wheels yesterday while it was being broadcast live, and i caught bits and pieces on the radio, but... i have yet to hear and watch the whole thing.

i feel like my grandparents. when i was in high school and doing a research paper on the vietnam war, i tried interviewing my grandparents as people who'd lived through it, and would undoubtedly have tons of memories to share of watching walter cronkite on the news, and listening to president kennedy and attorney general kennedy's speeches. i was surprised, disappointed, and a little annoyed to hear that they didn't recall too much about it, because they had three young children in the house from 1961 on. their lives revolved around their kids, just as mine does around micah and rowan. but i'm really ashamed that i haven't paid closer attention to this historical election. i'm ashamed, surprised, disappointed, and a little annoyed with myself... a friend of mine wrote a letter to her kids about the events of this january 20th, and it never even occurred to me to do that. but now i'm going to. right after i watch president obama's speech and ceremony.

delivering meals on wheels yesterday was a little nuts with three kids (mine, and baby lina, the baby i take care of during the week). we had 17 hot meals to deliver, at 10 different locations, two of them apartment complexes and the rest houses. my kids actually did really well riding in the car for over 2 hours, but little lina was not pleased for most of the time. i brought one bottle for her and fed her in the car, but i think she got cold with the door opening every few minutes. our stops were all in a geographic cluster, and the paperwork we picked up with the coolers had them mapped out in a logical order (except for one). all in all, it was a really great experience. micah enjoyed helping me deliver the meals at the two apartment complexes, while my dad sat in the car with rowan and lina. once we left the apartments and were delivering to the houses, it was super easy and fast. my notes for next month: only bring micah with me, bring a bag to put the meals in for the apartments so we don't have to run back to the car, and bring a highlighter to mark the houses on the mapsco pages that come attached to the paperwork!

i'm hosting a la leche league enrichment meeting at my house tomorrow morning. i always get really nervous, doing things like this. my house really isn't all that nice, it's tiny, and i never get everything done beforehand that i want to. for example, it's twenty till midnight, and i haven't vacuumed or washed my hair. sigh...