The Free World - an introduction
Today, I had the opportunity to vote in the Presidential Primary Election. Since the boys didn’t have preschool today (only M-W-F), I got to bring them with me. Before getting ready to go, I sat down with C and asked him if he knew what voting is or who the President is or what country we live in. He told me that he learned in school about the United States of America, but was unsure about voting and the President.
I explained to C, and later a little to J, that we live in a country called the United States of America and that adults that are 18 years old or older get to vote or choose who is in charge of our country. Right now, our President, the person in charge, is George W. Bush. Mr. Bush, or any President of our country, only gets to be in charge for 8 years at the most and his 8 years are almost finished. It is now time to pick someone else to be our president. That is why we are going to go vote.
It was a little more interesting than usual at the voting location. Today there was a photographer from the “big city” newspaper, not our more modest local town newspaper. I have notified the parental units to be on the lookout for mine, or the boys’ pictures tomorrow in the newspaper where the results from today’s vote will be located. It will be really awesome if C or J make the paper!
Hopefully this will be a good step towards the boys future good citizenship, or at the very least, a starting point for them to be elected to the White House!
Imagine, in thirty years me being First Mommy (or First “Mother” as J prefers to call me)!!!