Turn Up with Ally

made sure our voices were heard today —

because this was a primary & my partner had already been, it felt safe (energetically) for our highly anxious child to come with me today. I’ve never seen this before but they had paper ballots for kids to vote with things like pizza or ice cream and unicorns or dinosaurs and a box to submit them to before leaving.

I had already planned to discuss with R how voting works in practice. until now we’ve been limited to conversations away from the process — he’s never seen it in person. getting to participate today with a kid’s ballot, he was asking more questions about what they’ll do with the results, why they did that for the kids, what they’ll do once the adult ballots are printed and where they go.

as a mom determined to raise a good man, I really appreciate the effort put into acknowledging and including him in the process today. we talked a lot about the responsibility of being prepared, why voting is so important — knowing the issues and the candidates. if you’re in OH or IN, make sure you get out to vote today & thank your poll workers while you’re there 🫶🏻

2025 a year in motion