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I learned more about elections on election night 2000 than I ever did during my 16 years of schooling.

Right now, my daughter's just rolling her eyes at everything I do; I'm just an embarrassment.

Election night is the easiest time to act like a grownup.

I was class mom at the preschool one year and I was pretty much asked not to do that again!

The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for.

I remember going through the cafeteria line and telling every kid that Nixon was in favor of school on Saturdays. It was my first political trick.

It's not like I just have to go to Washington and go to the White House everyday, and go to the same press conference at 10 in the morning and then be briefed at 4 in the afternoon, and then get a story on at 6.

When your child is looking up at you, and you are putting them to bed at night, and they are just lying there, you have to remind yourself that's what it's all about.

On Sundays, I'm up at five and in the office by six. After the show, around midday, I flip the switch, and it's all family. Our kids play sports, so we're running around.

The fact that I'm on CNN today is something I never would have guessed as a 13-year-old - or any other age, for that matter.