Super Terrific Tuesday!

I decided to go and vote just before lunchtime yesterday figuring there would be less voter traffic. I was right! Girl-Child and I were in and out in no time flat. Before leaving the house I tried to explain, as well as one can to a four year old, about our civic duty as citizens of these here United States. She totally didn't understand. Don't believe her for a second with her "Uh-huh, sure, yeah, right, yep, got it" because she is totally lying. But she was down with the part where I made it sound really exciting. "It's in a FIRE STATION!" "We'll get a STICKER!"...and this was all she needed to hear! Disneyland? Feh. Voting rules! Not only were we, indeed, in a fire station; and she did get her own sticker, but the volunteer let her insert the ballot into the super secret secure box through a little scanner thingy (technical term) that resembled the dollar slot on a vending machine. This man tells Girl-Child, "If this little light turns green that means Mommy did it right!". I had a sudden onset of feelings of inadequacy. I'm standing there sweating and praying that the little light will not remain red because how stupid do you have to be to not master this? A red light would surely say: You're too dumb to vote. Go home. Stop trying you might hurt yourself. And what seemed an eternity later with me starting to fidget, it turned green. To which Girl-Child exclaimed, "YAY MOMMY!". Yay Mommy indeed. We left the building and she was wrapped in a sparkley cloud of positive giddiness and vocal about it, "THAT WAS SO COOL!" "THAT WAS SO SO FUN!" (yes, 2 "so's" worth of fun). Her enthusiasm was met with smiles, laughter, one outright guffaw, an "aww", and kudos from the handful throng of new arrivals. Yes, yay Mommy. Inspiring the masses one child at a time. MTV's Rock the Vote should be contacting me shortly.