When Michelle Obama first announced her book tour, I was ecstatic. I quickly lost my excitement when I found out her tour was not making a stop here in Minneapolis. So you can imagine my excitement when she added more dates to her tour and Minneapolis was a stop on it. I quickly got tickets for my mom and me. I thoroughly enjoyed myself and wanted to share a few tidbits.
She talked about her being a habitual box checker, and went on to say that sometimes you miss the best moments of life if you’re busy checking things off your list or dismissing things that aren’t on it to begin with. Sometimes the best things you end up with are those you didn’t know you needed. She shared about the loss of her father and a very close friend, where she talked about feeling as though she would be doing them a disservice if she was not living to her full potential.
She shared that it was imperative for young people to know that she and Barack attended marriage counseling. The reason she shared is because people view them as relationship goals and found it important for people to know that everyone has some level of brokenness and that therapy was a helpful tool in strengthening her marriage.
She encouraged parents to be open to the idea of asking for help and receiving help. She shared that parents may not be able to do it all, but it doesn’t discredit them as parents. She shared about how she would wake up at 4am to get ready for work, prepare her children for school before she left for work. That her mom would come over early in the morning, and leave when she, Michelle returned home from work. When the campaign trail started, she reported that she put work on the back burner to be on the campaign trail. She traded work for the campaign; she would fly out, work on the campaign and fly home for dinner to be with her girls.
She shared about how proud she is of how her children have turned out despite their growing up in the White House. She shared that she teaches her daughters not to feel sorry for themselves and to endure/embrace hardships, especially when people would make unkind comments to her children. She talked about.
She stressed on the importance of being a voice for children. She shared that children need stability and love; not a parent with an important job title. While, thats great and all, structure and love is key to healthy development for children. She encouraged the audience to a voice for the younger generation. She shared that her older brother Craig attending Princeton led her to believe that she too could get into Princeton.
There were so many gems dropped, it’s hard to remember and articulate everything without it being lost in translation. 
