Reply #9: She kind of zonked out

[StoryTeller]

...about half-way through his speech. Of course a lot of it went right over her head. I've got a cute picture of her asleep against my coat. I don't see how she could sleep with all the screaming and cheering. But she was a real trooper. Totally wiped out by the end between the two and a half hour wait outside and another 2 and a half hour wait inside.

Oh, and my husband talked with her about the fetus pictures and abortion and all that. I think it was just too much for her and she shut down mentally about it and didn't want to talk about it. She was worried about having nightmares about it, though. I just feel so angry about that. Those idiots totally violated my parental rights to educate my children about that sort of stuff WHEN THEY ARE READY. And the thing is, they don't care! And it doesn't help solve any problems or get people on either side of the issue talking or working together. And there was nothing I could do about it. But I'm just heartsick that my 10 year old was exposed to that. She's nowhere near psychologically ready for that. We tried to shield her, but the damn protester was walking through the line of people, basically shoving his obscene poster in our faces. Thank God the police finally made them all go across the street (to much applause), but they had a big truck with the same photos plastered all over it and they drove up and down in front of the auditorium.

If they want to be assholes like that in front of adults, fine, we can handle it. But they hurt my baby girl. They scared her and made her cry and put images in her head she isn't ready to process yet. I was fantasizing grabbing one of those damn posters and ripping it to shreds and beating them with it. *sigh* For those of you who know me, just goes to show I'm not always a model Christian. You mess with my kids and I turn into this mama grizzly bear. OOOhhhh I was SO furious. I'm still pretty pissed about the whole thing--as if you couldn't tell.

Anyway, enough ranting. I think she'll be okay. I just hate it when innocence is stripped away so needlessly like that.

Other than that, she had a good time. When Obama came on stage, I leaned down to her and yelled in her ear, "He's here! Do you see him? Do you see him?"

She was glowing with excitement. "YES! I see him, I see him!!!"