Posted: November 6, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Walk, roll, do what you gotta do but do it: VOTE today!

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Every election my son rolls, walks, or scooters with me to the polling place down the street and helps me cast my ballot. (Related: blog post about the post election party four years ago where kids weren’t allowed.)

This year, because he has science club and I am teaching today, he wanted to get up at 6am and go with me to the polls at 7am.

We assured him that we didn’t have to set the alarm for 6am and if we got dressed quickly at 7am, we could ride bikes up there at 7:15 then get back in plenty of time for breakfast and 8am school.

When I got up at 6:45am, he was already dressed and ready to go! While I had some tea and he had a bowl of cereal, we went over and marked the sample ballot in preparation for voting.

The morning was brilliant: warm…

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