But Michelle looked fresh and in a party-mood, all gussied up in a one-shoulder white ball-gown! I have never worn a ball-gown in my life. Having grown up on Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty, I imagined that when I grew up I'd go to balls and dances, all decked out in a glittery, shiny gown, wearing high-heeled slippers. Well, that never happened! Not only have I never gone to a ball, but I can't even wear heels higher than 1 inch! I can only imagine how I'd fall all over myself on the dance floor!

So I watched Michelle begin her first round of 10 (count them - 10) Inaugural balls, dancing in her husband's arms, receiving little kisses and smiles from him. Sigh...

I started to fall in love with him - and with her!

Other First Ladies have worn elegant suits, dresses and gowns. But they didn't look like Michelle.

Nancy Reagan had lovely clothes, but she looked like a toothpick in them. They fell right off of her. Barbara Bush probably paid a pretty penny for her clothes but she looked so matronly - nothing I would want to aspire to. And her daughter-in-law Laura just looked nondescript (can't her mother-in-law at least loan her a pair of pearls)?

Hillary tried, but she just looked too down-home in her gowns - I always suspected she'd rather have been wearing granny dresses and sandals! Not since Jackie Kennedy have we seen such glamour!

So as the Obama Presidency takes off, I am going to wait with baited breath each time Michelle comes on the screen, eagerly awaiting to see what she is wearing. Maybe we're going to enter another Camelot!!!