Check it out. That's me on left left and my little brother on the right
Back in Bismarck, we had a great sledding hill about a block away from our house. We would have hours of fun with the neighbor kids, but it was damn cold. Cold fingers, cold toes, and the funniest has to be my dad walking in the house after shoveling snow with icicles hanging from his moustache.
I can honestly say that today here in Wisconsin is a North Dakota day, cold windy and crunchy snow underfoot. Mae loves to play in the snow. Recently, when the bus drops her off, she hands me her backpack and runs for the big drift behind the house. She refuses to come in until she's lost most of the feeling in her fingers and toes. Binny on the other hand doesn't care for the wind snow in her face feeling. Can't say that I blame her, this morning I opened the door to let the dogs out and the cold air took my breath away. What's worse? All of the bundling, especially now that both of them ride the bus and the teachers ask that they come to school in full winter dress, which makes for interesting maneuvers in and out of the bus.
Their coats and snowpants have been filthy almost everyday, from what I can imagine is a combination of many children dressing in one area and muddy, snowy boots. It takes a whole 10 minutes to dress one of them here at home. I can't even imagine the chaos that must go on at school. I'm just amazed that we haven't lost more than 1 hat so far this winter. Oh, and did I mention that we're almost out of heating oil for our furnace (gotta call today). Last year we filled our tank twice, the second fill being very expensive ($3.13/ gal.). Hopefully we'll not need more than that this year even if oil prices have come down.
Bundle up!
***UPDATED*** Heating oil was $2.19/ gal. Fill 'er up!
3 comments:
And I thought 20 degrees was cold! lol 1.6 degrees!? That's just crazy! Stay warm!
I got a chill just reading how cold it is there! :)
I love winter, but hate the sub-zero cold.
That pic of you and your brother is adorable.
The stories of bundling your girls makes me think of "A Christmas Story". That poor little brother who was like a turtle on his back when he fell down!
Try to stay warm and I hope the fuel guy doesn't take too big of a bite out of your pocketbook.
I grew up in GF and thought my relatives from the Twin Cities were big wimps! Now I live "here" and when we go up "there"-good God how do they do it??!! ND is f'ing freezing! It's that wind... Kathy
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