🎉🎊🎈 Happy Birthday Michelle Obama 🎈🎊🎉

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MICHELLE

On this day in 1964, a queen was born. A queen who would grow up to make history and open many doors. She grew up to be a lawyer, a mother, a wife, but most importantly, she would go on to be the First Lady of the United States, Mrs Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama. 

Born to Fraser & Marian Robinson, her father was a city-pump operator and a Democratic precinct captain. Her mother was a secretary at Spiegel's but later stayed home to raise Michelle and her older brother, Craig. The Robinson family lived in a small bungalow on Chicago's South Side. Michelle and Craig shared quarters, sleeping in the living room with a sheet serving as a makeshift room divider. They were a close-knit family, although they didnt have much. Raised with an emphasis on education, both Michelle and her brother learned to read at home by age four. Both skipped the second grade. By the sixth grade, Michelle was taking classes in her school's gifted program, where she learned French and completed accelerated courses in biology. Michelle went on to attend Whitney M. Young Magnet High School, the city's first magnet high school for gifted children, where, among other activities, she served as the student government treasurer. In 1981, she graduated from the school as class salutatorian. 

Following in her older brother's footsteps, Michelle attended Princeton University, graduating cum laude in 1985 with a B.A. in Sociology. She went on to study law at Harvard Law School, where she took part in demonstrations calling for the enrollment and hiring of more minority students and professors. She was awarded her J.D. in 1988. After graduating law school in 1988, Michelle worked as an associate in the Chicago branch of the firm Sidley Austin in the area of marketing and intellectual property.

Then love happened. They met at Michelle's first job as a lawyer at the Chicago firm Sidley Austin. Barack was a summer intern to whom Michelle was assigned as an adviser. Initially, Michelle refused to date Barack, believing that their work relationship would make dating wrong. She eventually caved and the couple soon fell in love. After two years of dating, Barack proposed to her. Michelle and Barack married at Trinity United Church of Christ on October 3, 1992. They have two beautiful children, Malia and Sasha Obama. 

Michelle has been an inspiration to many women around the world. She has been involved with volunteering and changing lives for the better. As first lady of the United States, Michelle focused her attention on issues such as the support of military families, helping working women balance career and family and encouraging national service. During the first year of the Obama presidency, Michelle and Barack volunteered at homeless shelters and soup kitchens in the Washington, D.C. area. Michelle also made appearances at public schools, stressing the importance of education and volunteer work. While in the White House, she made sure that all her families and guests meals were organic. Michelle remained committed throughout her time as first lady to her health-and-wellness causes. In 2012, she announced a new fitness program for kids as part of her Let's Move initiative. Along with the U.S. Olympic team and other sports organizations, she worked to get young people to try out a new sport or activity. 

Not only has she done so much, the one thing that stands out about this beautiful lady, is that she never lowered herself or her standards when faced with sexism, racism, or disrespect. She always stayed a lady, and conducted herself with such poise and grace, that she forever will be my First Lady. No one that came before her handled their self like a queen as she did. Her famous saying, "When they go low, we go high" She has always held herself to standard that many of us should hold ourselves to. 

So today, Enjoy your birthday queen! You are an inspiration to us all!!! You will always and forever be my First Lady!!!  

Big Sister Sweet N Sassy

Christy Sparrowhawk