"Dear Prez-a-dent Berrrrrrockkkkkkkobama"

Heard the news lately?

Depressing, eh?

I've been trying to avoid it all. Instead, I've been working in the classroom, baking for swimathons, leading art docent lessons, and working on 12 pages in the yearbook. Missed me?? Yep, my heads been to the volunteering grindstone while my heart tries not to worry about our country and the huge monstrous debt-ridden legacy we are about to gift to my children and yours.

But this post is not about worry, but hope. I promise. Keep reading...

So, yearbook is done and another day couldn't go by without my sharing of the cute words of advice and hope from Li'l Man's 1st grade class to "Berrrr-rocko-Bama."

Said just like that.

No space.

I think most of them think his last name is "Berrrockobama."

I had one little girl say it over and over to me during our reading group. Endless source of adorable amusement. She said his first name was "Berr-rock-o." Heh!

So we worked in groups, laboring with furled brows of concentration with stubby fingers wrapped too tightly around our Dixon Ticonderoga pencils and our pink pearl erasers at the ready. Their little pink tongues stuck out in concentration as they wrote letters to our president.

Their amazement and excitement bowled me over in a country struck down by fear and panic due to financial markets, mortgages, and stimulus package in-fighting.

Their joy overwhelmed that they would actually get to write a letter to the "Berrockobama."

So, with out further ado, here are some excerpts from each child on their words of advice:

"Dear President Obama, I hope that you will do the following for our country..."

• "I hope you be a good president."
  

• "I hope you make our country a better place."
  

• "I hope you choose fair laws & teach people."
  

• "I hope you make us live longer."
  

• "I hope you let us carry more on airplanes."
  

• "I hope you bring peace."
  

• "I hope you help people."
  

• "I hope you stop the war."
  

• "I hope you help our world be a better place."
  

• "I hope you give money to buy houses."
  

• "I hope you be a good president."
  

• "I hope you stand up to the country & take care of the United States & love."
  

• "I hope you make the water not be polluted & no wars."
  

• "I hope you help people drink enough water & eat enough food & not junk food like a monster."

• "I hope you take money from the rich & give it to the poor just so it will be fair & so the poor can get a job & a good school."
  

• "I hope you pay the bills more often & make our country a better one & that we’ll have easy homework."
  

• "I hope you fix breaking pipes that have holes in the world. "
  

• "I hope you will make our world a better place."
  

And finally, my Li'l Man's response:

• I hope for no more wars, no more your mama’s so fat shows anymore, & every army to just meet together & don’t fight.

No matter what side of the aisle you are on politically, a dose of a 1st grader's optimism and hope is what we all as a country need right now.

I hope, Mr. Obama, too. I hope you can pull us out of this mess we are in.

Ahem...and about that "your mama’s so fat show?" I dunno.

Seriously. Clueless.

I think he might of been exposed to some MTV programming this summer.

Ahhh... for summer to be here and everyone feeling sunny again.


Blognotes: Thx for the pics by Astrid Photography.and xtopalopaquetl

'lisciously scribed by Heather Murphy-Raines @ 10:56 AM