Saturday Stuff--SPRING FORWARD!

It's a gorgeous day! Yesterday I heard an NPR commentator, an advocate of light therapy, suggest that we have it backwards--we should be maximizing LIGHT when we get up in the morning--so Daylight Savings Time should apply to sunshine mornings in order to maximize feelings of enthusiasm for getting out of bed!! I love it.--sunshine I mean, not getting out of bed unless the sun is up before I am.... How about you?

I also want to share a fun Obama sighting report from our niece Ann Satchwill and her family of Georgetown, DC ( Husband, Ben Kaplan, international legal eagle who used to be the corporate counsel for Seagram's, daughter Alli, a Columbia student and son Nate, a wonderfully articulate & fun 10 year old who is a Sean Nathan look-alike!)

Here's the story she emailed to her mom and her mom cc'd to me:

Guess what? The President & Mrs. Obama came to Sidwell this evening for Sasha's parent-teacher conference! There were temporary no parking-tow away signs all over our street first thing this morning - and then the street was parked up with secret service and other mobiles (like ambulances, police cars, you name it) from about 3:00 p.m. Things got really busy around 3:30 - three men on the roof of Sidwell with binoculars and rifles. Tons of secret service men all over the street. Unbelievable! So I started watching in the front yard, and neighbors walking their dogs stopped to watch (and to meet our new puppy) - and soon there were over 50 people in our front yard! One of the secret service guys asked who the owner of the house was - which was me - and then whether everyone present was a relative, and I said no they were all neighbors though, and then he asked whether they could search us all for weapons. We said sure thing - search away, just let us see the President and tell us how long we would have to wait! (He told us nothing!) The motorcade -- three limosines, motorcycles, huge SUVS, came in through the parking garage under the gym, so we got to see them walk from the garage to the school. Then we all waited for 45 minutes until they came back out - b/c then we would be able to see their faces! Mrs. Obama came out first with secret service guys, and then the President came out with ss guys. Do you think they came out separately for security reasons? Anyway, we clapped for Mrs. Obama and she waved to us - and then we clapped and cheered like mad for the President and he waved, and then he really grinned - he seemed genuinely touched by our cheers. He's had a long week, so maybe we made him feel a little better. Anyway, it was really fun. Nate was with me for the whole thing - I just wish Ben & Allie had been home, too.