Sometimes it’s easy to identify the big moments of our lives, like graduations, weddings, the birth of our children, jobs and promotions, service to our communities.

But other times, I think the some of the biggest moments of our lives can slip by without being noticed.

On Sunday afternoon, I was thinking about how big of a week it was for us as a nation with the inauguration of Barack Obama as president of the United States, with all the pomp and circumstances of the luncheons, the inaugural balls and the mile-long parade. What an enormous week it had been for the Obama family.