My grandson voted before he was born!

Well not really, but he was in his mommy's tummy when SHE voted today, so does that count?

See that sticker on her tummy? Yeah, that's OLIVER!!! I am so incredibly proud of my daughter and son-in-law for making sure that he got to experience voting first-hand even before he could see the ballot. They will make such awesome parents!!! My daughter is sooooo organized these days (perhaps it's her nesting instinct?) that she actually studied the ballot ahead of time and zipped right through that electronic voting machine faster than I could say VOTE! I'm sure she said a few words to Oliver while she was touching the screen like how to recognize a good candidate and which party is truly FOR the PEOPLE (starts with a D folks!)

Is anyone else truly looking forward to being able to turn on the television without having to flip through channels adnauseum to avoid political advertisements and then end up switching to Netflix or Hulu anyway? The NaBloPoMo prompt for today was to say what our first act would be if we were elected president. How about banning all those ads? Better yet, prohibit filling those pockets so deep that they have millions of dollars to spend on all those ads, junk mail and phone calls! I think we could heat a house for the winter with just ONE candidate's junk mail alone! Ok, enough of that. Let's just say that I'll be glad when January gets here and we can move on...

Toodles!

Let the Voting Begin for Operation Write Home!

It's time to vote! OWH is now in the finalists round in the JoAnns Craft for a Cause contest - we are SO excited! We made it into this round because of all of our wonderful crafters who entered. Thank you for doing such a great job!

For this round, we're up against two wonderful organizations - the American Cancer Society and Project Linus. Now, while we LOVE other folks who do such great work....we need to win this one for our heroes!  Voting is open NOW - November 7 at midnight, and ending December 4th - see the link below for the rules.

OWH is the small fish swimming in the big pond, so we need your help in taking this on. There's only one vote per email per day - and we need you all to vote daily, get your friends and family to vote, and remind folks regularly to go do so! I'll be sending you a weekly reminder/update as the voting wears on. We'll have the link all over our Facebook page too, if you forget where to go!

I recommend you first bookmark the link below on you computers at home and work....set a time in your mind each day to vote. Maybe when you sit down to check email in the morning, or as you check your facebook account during lunch, or after the kids go to bed. Whatever it takes to remember every day! Please post a reminder to your facebook, blog, or twitter account every couple days for your friends and family; start a thread on a discussion board you take part in; don't bother people so often that they don't pay attention to you. But INSPIRE them. Post a photo of a hero from our Flickr album. Republish a favorite hero letter. Tell them why YOU support our heroes - and invite them to do the same with the click of a mouse!

CLICK HERE TO VOTE!