So there you have it, fellow Newtonites. We all know politicians never never never lie.
Did you know when I was 17 I was giving a talk in Sacrament meeting and when I scanned the crowd from the podium, I noticed Senator Hatch was in attendance? Nothing like a little added pressure. He told me good job afterwards.
In other political news, I voted this week. I wanted to go while Cole and Annie were both in school, but decided to wait until I picked them up so I could give them a little civics lesson. Here's how it went down:
We arrived right in the midst of the lunchtime crowd, so we had to wait a bit. Cole was extremely fascinated with the little electronic device the poll worker used to load my ballot card and asked her 75 questions about it. Sweet little old lady had probably used all her tech-savvy to figure out how to work it and was completely stumped by his questions. Finally it was my turn and Cole sadly left the lady behind without figuring out said device. He hates it when he can't figure something out. Luckily, he was soon fascinated by the computer in the polling booth. Unfortunately, I failed to explain the concept of a secret ballot to Cole and he read over my shoulder the whole time - "why did you vote for (insert name)?", "who are you going to vote for next?", "what does that question mean?",). And he's not a quiet person.
Annie, meanwhile, was sad the whole time. Why? I vote at the Senior Citizen Center and they were serving up lunch. But, mean mom that I am, I would not let her go get a tray and some lunch. It should be noted that I'm sure Annie did not really want to eat the food, given that they were not serving butter, noodles, or sugar. She just thought the lunch line and the trays looked like fun.
Ben was an angel. Thank you Ben.
Next year, I think I'll skip the civics lesson.
