Michelle and Barack Obama Meets Malia’s Newborn for the FIRST Time Cute Moments!1

She remembers the simultaneous weight and lightness

The questions

The fear of doing everything right

The desire to be strong for her child while still learning how to be strong for herself

Now decades later the presence of a new baby reopens the tenderness of those early days

The emotions sweep through her not as sorrow but as recognition

In holding her granddaughter she is holding a part of her younger self

A reminder of where she has been and who she became