Firsts!

Columbia had its first snow since we've lived here! It only lightly dusted the ground, but it was certainly the first snow of Caroline's lifetime! We were going to take a picture of her outside in the snow, but that might have been "cruel and unusual" to make her suffer in the cold that she honestly doesn't care about yet. I decided that later snows of her lifetime would be more fun to take pictures in when she's playing and excited about it.

Another exciting first was her first Presidential inauguration that America shared as its first inauguration of an African-American President. I think it is so great to think that she will never know a time when there wasn't an African-American who had been president. No matter what people believe politically, I think this was an exciting day in American history. I wonder how this will make Caroline's world view different than mine. I'll enjoy conversations with her when she is an adult (and while she's on her way) to see how this has impacted her or if it did at all - if this is her normal. Wouldn't even more racial equality being normal be great? I think having a conversation with my grandmother, my mom, me and Caroline about what our "normal" was regarding diversity when each of us was 20 would be an interesting conversation to hear.