Election Time

 I was always taught not to talk about politics. Its a very touchy subject to many and has been known to end friendships, start family feuds, and have your neighbors hide from you.  I've lived my life that way, until this year. This year is a very special election year for me, so I am going to be very open about who I'm voting for and why I believe in it!!!!

                                                       LOVELY LADY #1!! :)


 My oldest Cecilia is running for class president! I am sooo proud of that kid. She is in second grade and her teacher is AHHH-MAZING!! Cecilia is absolutely the happiest I've really ever seen her as far as school goes.  Everyone in the class had the opportunity to nominate themselves if they were interested in running.  Twelve out of nineteen kids decided to go for it. The class then had to vote for who they wanted to see run. Everyone got two votes each, because obviously all twelve would vote for themselves so to be fair you had to pick a second.  Now.... my lovely lady is brand new in this school.  She has made quite a few fast friends and is pretty social though very shy. I know its a bit of an odd combination. But still, brand new and alot of the other kids already have strong friendships and probably know who they want to vote for. So I had to help her think of something to draw in these votes! I don't always agree with it, but in this case we had to do a little "undercover" bribery! I took her to Staples thinking that we could just buy a few cool packs of pencils and hand them out, but in the middle of the aisle I saw a clearance on CANDY, which was kind of what I was trying to avoid, but the brain started spinning and I helped her come up with a pretty cute idea, if I do say so myself!

SMARTIES!! She made little baggies for all of them with a pack of smarties and a big smiley face sticker and wrote a slogan on a cute little Sticky note that said, "Be a Smartie and Nominate Cecilia for class President!" She worked for at least an hour straight packaging these all up! I started to worry that I was setting her up for failure! She was getting so excited about it, What if nobody voted for her?!? After all there were twelve kids going for it! Needless to say, my stomach was in knots ALLLL day long! And she had an after school walking program that day, so I had to wait an extra hour to find out! 
So, I get to the school to pick her up and she wont even tell me what happened! She didn't seem to upset so I couldn't tell if it was good news or bad news! Then she tells me that she wants to wait until we're home to surprise me.  I figured then that it had to be good news! So we get home, and it took forever to get it out of her but....She did it!!! Not only did she make top four but she had the most votes out of the four who were chosen!! Which meant she got first pick for her VP.

She's been working non stop since, on her poster board, speech, and "Vote For Cecilia" badges.  So, we'll just have to wait and see, but I won't keep quiet about this election! I'm am voting Cecilia for class president!! Her speech is on Tuesday and the big election day is Wednesday! FINGERS CROSSED!!! :)

Side Note: We're off to a cancer benefit tonight at the Wilmington River Front. Light the night, benefits Lymphoma/Leukemia.  Which my mom is a survivor of! We're so excited to be a part of these amazing event.  They are blowing up 1500 illuminated balloons!! Once it gets dark everyone get their balloons and walks the river front to literally light up the night, for all of the survivors, ones we've lost, and those who are currently fighting the courageous battle! Very proud to know that my kids will be a part of this. :)