Yes, we did!

I was glued to the television Tuesday night. My husband was too nervous to watch and went to his computer and played Scramble on Facebook. My 21 year old son sat with me in the den. While I constantly changed the channels between BBC America, MSNBC and CNN, Ryan had his macbook open and was cruising the New York Times, CNN, Facebook and other sites. We were elated but extremely nervous. When I saw Kentucky had voted for McCain I was upset. Silly, I know but I was afraid that we were about to watch a repeat of 2000 and or 2004. As the night went on however, I realized Kentucky wasn't going to decide the election.

We also started flipping back and forth to Comedy Central so we could watch Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert covering the election live.

It was an electrifying night. My two cats knew something was amiss and they were on the alert just as we were. They sauntered between the kitchen and the den, presumably thinking with all the excitement that we would surely soon give them treats. After all, the kind of excitement their humans were feeling is usually reserved for Thanksgiving or Christmas and they always get to eat turkey on those days.

The relief in the room was palpable when Pennsylvania was declared for Obama. We discovered that Ohio had gone for Obama while on the BBC network. They were a few minutes ahead of MSNBC which we then changed to.

First we got to hear Jon Stewart say the magic words.

Ryan sat up very tall on the sofa and I saw his face turn red. He turned his beautiful little macbook towards me where Safari revealed the BBC website showing California and the rest of the west coming in and we watched as the number of electoral votes started rising exponentially. Then I heard Keith Olbermann say, "Barack Obama is going to be the next president of the United States."

I wept. I screamed. Ryan wept too and Jim finally quit pacing and joined us. We were laughing and crying at the same time. When MSNBC switched to the crowd at Grant Park in Chicago, we knew, along with the crowd, that we had changed the world for the better.

Yes, we did!