Michelle Obama is one cool lady - and now, ever since reading her blog entry over at Blogher, I find her even cooler.
Michelle wrote about her experiences at a national women's conference in Chicago, Illinois in a blog post called "Our Many Hats". In truth, it reads a little like one of Barack's speeches and is mainly a post to explain to "mommybloggers" that, as President, Barack will expand the Family and Medical Leave Act.
However, it is still nice to have an (almost) first lady that gets it. She's human. She feels guilt about balancing home and work and her time with her two daughters just like the rest of working mothers do.
No matter where we live—no matter our race, our socioeconomic
background, or our political party—we women wear many hats. We’re
daughters and sisters and moms. We’re professionals and students. We
run errands and do laundry and shop for groceries. And to get it all
done, we have another skill that we rely on. We’re jugglers.
I know that every other mommyblogger out there knows exactly what I’m talking about.
But, she's also quick to point out that she's not just at work - she's on the campaign trail - and that she has help. Plus, she explains both her and Barack have well paying jobs that provide them with adequate health care and that they're also provided with paid sick days so that if they need to stay home with a sick child, "we won’t be fired for it".
Now, can you imagine Cindy McCain writing one of these? How does a multi-millionaire even begin to pretend to understand the lives of women on "Main Street"? Or Mommy Bloggers for that matter?
Read more of Michelle's blog posts over at her Blogher page!
Special thanks to our pal Susan Mernit for tweeting this!