“Every
weekend
was
hard
following
these
little
girls
around,”
Michelle
told
Oprah
in
February
2020. “We
had
to
worry
about
what
parties
they
were
going
to,
whether
there
was
alcohol,
I
had
to
know
who
the
parents
were,
so
every
weekend
for
me
was
hard.”
That
was
toward
the
end
of
their
time
there,
though.
When
they
first
got
to
the
White
House,
the
first
lady
wondered
how
she
was
going
to
make
their
new
palatial
residence,
complete
with
tuxedo-wearing
butlers,
many
of
them
Black
and
Latino
men,
feel
like
home.
“We
had
to
change
the
dress
code,”
Michelle
told
Stephen
Colbert
during
the
final
stop
on
her
34-city Becoming book
tour,
explaining
how
she
didn’t
want
Malia
and
Sasha—or
their
friends—to
get
the
impression
that
having
liveried
black
servants
was
something
normal
to
see
in
life. “You
can’t
walk
around
every
day
in
a
tuxedo.
Girls
would
have
pool
parties
and
play
dates
and
little
kids
over,
and
it’s
like,
that
doesn’t
even
look
right
to
me.
And
I
had
to
beg
the
housekeepers, ‘these
girls
have
to
learn
how
to
clean
their
own
rooms
and
make
their
beds,
and
do
their
laundry.
You
cannot
do
this
every
day, ’cause
they
will
not
live
here
forever—and
I
am
not
raising
kids
that
don’t
know
how
to
make
a
bed.'”
When
the
family
acquired
Bo
and
Sunny,
their
Portuguese
water
dogs,
helping
to
care
for
the
first
pets
was
added
to
the
girls’
list
of
responsibilities.
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