Something that jumped out at me in a story about the new First Family.

In the Strib this a.m.

"When the girls and their mother have needed an escape, they could retreat to the backyards of longtime friends, where they jumped rope or turned up the volume on their iPods and danced with abandon to songs by Soulja Boy and Beyonce. Michelle Obama, a creature of the South Side and of habit, has spent nearly every Saturday for the past 10 years with the same two friends and their collective brood of children.

"Now, all of that must change."

Good for her, and for her kids, for having those connections.  I hope they maintain them, somehow, over the next few years.