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Crayons and Champagne for Everyone!

By 73071 - Nov 6th, 2008 at 10:10 am EST

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Last night after school, my 2nd grade daughter delayed homework to make a cut out of Barak Obama standing in statue form in a running position. It is about 12 inches tall and 5 inches in width. When coloring time came, she looked for the brown crayon.

She has 3 or 4 packs of crayons scattered all over the house, and each pack was missing the brown crayon.

She tried to make it work with a brown magic marker, but it isn't working too well. As she got on the bus this morning I promised to pick her up a new pack of flesh toned crayons in a variety of colors.

When I voted for Jesse Jackson in Lawton Oklahoma in the 1988 primary, I didn't know of this little girl I would one day have. When I encouraged the Oklahoma Legislature to read one book of black history to celebrate Black History month, I didn't know I'd need to stock up on the variety of crayons to give life to my daughter's art.

I saw the mult-shade flesh tone crayons on the shelf, but didn't see the need to buy them, until now.

My budding little artist wants to share with the world her joy in supporting this great man for the last 2 years. She watched the primaries with me, was left with her dad while me and her bigger brother drove to Ft. Worth to help with voter protection during Super Tuesday.

She helped me draw the line across the ballot to vote for him in the Primary. She yelled "Go Obama!" out of her grandma's car while driving to vote on November 4, 2008.

She won't celebrate with champagne like her Aunt Melissa did in Grant Park on the evening of November 4th. Instead, my little fair skinned girl, will celebrate with a new box of crayons.

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