[We took this as we were getting ready to leave. Some of the kids had already started to strip down, hence Alix with no shoes!! Keri is snug and warm in the stroller!]
We decided Friday night that we would not worry about what time we woke up in the morning since we were both pretty wiped. So Keri got up at 6 am on Saturday November 1. Too bad!! She ate, played and played and played. We played together. She finally gave up at 8am. By then all the other kids were up and Scott finally woke up too. He went downstairs with the kids while I put Keri back to bed. Then I went back to bed!! I informed Scott I needed at least one more hour. I got an hour and a half. Scott was great. He brought the kids down, fed them and helped them sort their candy. We have a tradition of letting the kids each pick 10 pieces of candy they can do with what they want and the rest goes in the pot for mom and dad!! After that Scott and Jaime got ready and walked the last precinct of this election. Unfortunately, for them, they got rained on about 30 minutes into it, but that didn’t stop them. They finished the walking, posted a few signs and came home. In the meantime I had been helping the kids clean the house. After Scott got home we all cleaned together for an hour and then we all got dressed in our warmest clothes and grabbed our rain jackets and headed out the door. Why? A great friend, Jen Hansen, and family planned a PROP 8 rally. They were down in Southern California the week before and they were driving down the Pacific Coast Highway and there were people out there holding YES on PROP 8 signs for miles on both sides of the highway. It inspired them so much they arranged something similar here. We stood on Mission Blvd. We covered at least a mile on both sides of the street. It was awesome! It was also pouring rain. But we stood out there nonetheless. It was amazing. The enthusiasm was strong. The honking cars, the thumbs up, the smiles, made it all worth it. We aren’t the only sane ones in the Bay Area!! :0) We stood out there for 2 hours. After that we climbed back in the van (we were all SOAKED!! Except Keri, snug as a bug in a rug she was!!). After we were all buckled in and the heat blasting we headed home the long way to place more signs. We had 30 to get rid of before the election and we didn’t want to fall down on the job. We made it home by 6pm. We had arranged with the Bennett’s that they would join us for dinner consisting of all the left over food from the Ward Halloween Carnival. They arrived at our house by 6:15. We ate good food, had hot chocolate and then played a card game while the kids played games and enjoyed each other’s company too. The Bennett’s left by 8:30 and we got the kids to bed “early”. Scott and I both had lessons to prepare (him Sunday school, me sharing time). After getting all the things done we needed to it was 1 am. But since we got to enjoy daylight savings time I got to bed at 12:06 am. Earliest in a week!!
Sunday went well. Except for the fact that Keri had two HUGE blowouts in 30 minutes. I am grateful it was not one big one, I would have been home again! But I come prepared now to church. We bring three outfits each week. So far we have needed them. She’s blown out at least once the last 6 Sundays in a row. Must be some kind of record! Scott taught his lesson, I taught my two and everything went well. We got home and put the little ones to nap and then I started making phone calls. All meetings were canceled in our ward so that everyone could go home and call all the yes and undecided voters to remind them to vote and to vote YES on PROP 8. After doing that for an hour Li-Li came by and we chatted for a while. After she left I crashed for about 20 minutes and then everyone else was awake. So we put shoes on everyone and loaded them all up in the car. We had about 20 more signs to post and so we went out to do that. We got pretty adventurous. We placed them on the freeway, we put them in the median on Warm Springs Blvd and we put them on the on ramp of the freeway. We posted a couple by the school (which were gone pretty early the next morning) and a few just on the streets. After posting our last sign we went to the Lease’s to pick up a few more pages of phone calls and then came home. By the time we had dinner and put kids to bed it was too late to make any more phone calls. We closed down the house and were in bed by 10pm!! Yay for me!!
Well it looks like Prop 8 is going to PASS- yay for all your hard work. What a great way for your kids to learn early about democracy. Nina watched Sesame Street today and the theme was on voting… does that count?
What are you feeding Keri? She seems to blow out a lot! I remember those days. Don’t miss those days. At least the blow out part.