When it’s 5 degrees outdoors and you leave a warm building, the cold smacks your forehead like a sledgehammer.
When it’s 0 degrees and you’re going to bed, your house feels very cold even though the thermostat hasn’t been turned down yet.
When it’s less than 0 degrees and your daughter awakes in the middle of the night and her head feels like a frozen popsicle, you open the heating grate she closed earlier in the day and pile another blanket on her little bed, knowing she’s alive and well (at least enough to wake up Mommy) albeit a little chilly.
When it’s -2 degrees and feels like -12 (or so says Weather.com) and you wake up in the morning, you feel you deserve a medal for being the first out of bed to crank up the heat.
When it’s this cold in the Lincoln, Nebraska, you wish you had invested in long underwear and face masks during the after-Christmas sales. Either that or you stay inside all day with plans to watch Pixar movies and bake peanut butter cookies.
2 Comments
Lindsey Jan 25, 2008 1:08 AM
I’d recommend Cuddlduds long underwear type things. I got some (on clearance!) at JC Penneys before I came here to Russia and they alone have kept me from freezing to death. However, PB cookies have miraculous heating powers as well.
RT Jan 25, 2008 10:32 AM
Commenting from Russia? The Prairie Box has never been so honored! : ) Take care of yourself, Lindsey–stay warm in those Cuddleduds (which my mom loves, too, by the way).