At the last presidential Voting Day Bergen was about 10 weeks old. I remember the three of us going first thing in the morning and standing in line for about an hour while we made our way around the winding lines at our voting station.
This year we were expecting to wait longer than the 60 minutes we waited last time. Lars left early from work so we could head over to our voting station after Annika was up from her afternoon nap. We packed the diaper bag full of snacks, drinks, toys, books. . . anything to keep the kids busy while we waited. We, however, were in and out of there so fast that Lars said "this was faster then a McDonald's drive through". And it was. No lines. No wait. It was shocking - especially given the massive number of people who came out to vote this year.
Bergen participated with us every step of the way and even fed our ballots into the machine. He was VERY excited to get his own "I voted" stickers after he voted in the "Kids Election" sponsored by the MN League of Women Voters and he wore them proudly. . . . as did we.
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