To all Our Children: We miss you and love you lots!!! We have had such a beautiful Autumn here in Mohall and North, North Dakota. My flowers have not yet froze, even though the temps have dropped into the 20's. We have been working alot, and watching those among us travel to New Mexico and Arizonia for the winter. We miss the people that do the exiting, it shrinks our town of friends and family and business and income. We have had many discussions around the table about the trauma that has come to our country. We pray that we have encouraged you all to be responsible and vote, even though you might be angry with the system. We so appreciated Jen's little ad video about voting. I know you will all make decisions based on COMMON SENSE.

A couple of months ago we were all so overwhelmed with the Olympic Games. The athlete fervently running, torch in hand, held high over head, followed by thousands of the most skilled athletes in the world. Exciting, wasn't it??We watched with millions to see the athletes' performances. To us here at home we watched each evening and were intrigued by these incredile humans. We were drawn with passion to see our America Flag and our anthemn played to receive Medals. For those men and women ( and me too)they were consumed with PASSION. Let that PASSION be contagious to you as you make your mark in the most important election in this decade. I will not tell you how to vote, but vote you must. "Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the ONe who is leading." (Oswald Chambers) Thanks! Love MOM