Election Day

Soooo, it's been awhile since I've written. Mainly because I've been sickly. When you don't feel well, everything goes. I didn't blog, clean house, make dinner, do laundry, or anything else I'm supposed to do. My family did a good job of keeping up with what they could. Now that I'm better (praise God!) I am trying to catch up on everything I didn't do.

 Does one ever really catch up?? Every time I do laundy, SOMEONE in my family wears clothes AGAIN! Every time I do the dishes, SOMEONE is HUNGRY!! Every time I clean the bathroom, SOMEONE has to GO!!

Election Day was yesterday. I consider it my duty to teach my children how our country, and the election process works. I thought of  leaving the kids with my mom while I went to vote, but decided it was important for them to see how voting works. So, I took all four of them with me (during school hours, of course) into our local city hall. Now, we live in a town of about 850, out of which 825 are over the age of 60. So we are an oddity no matter what time of day we choose to go vote. I was proud of the kids. They were very well behaved and took everything in while quietly looking on.

 It was later on that  I found out what Rylie was thinking about. She said to me, "Mom, did you peek at the ballot of the guy sitting next to you to see who he picked?" I told her, "Of course not! People don't want you to see who they voted for." She said, " I would have peeked, I can't help it." 
I guess it's a good thing she's not 18 yet.....

I do hope my kids learned something this year about the election process in America. Mostly though, I hope they understand that we live in the GREATEST country in the world, and grow up to be citizens proud to be Americans. It is with that pride that will come responsibility to keep our nation great.