It's winter

Already this winter has been particularly cold and well, that just stinks!!! I am not built for winter! I seriously dislike it but I try to get through it all. On Saturday we got blanketed by snow and it has only been "warming up" to about 20 degrees if we are lucky so, we are still covered in it. And I think it's supposed to snow again later this week. I miss Thailand, and being warm, and tan- but I have never seen the point in tanning beds- I just like being tan because it means that I have been enjoying the glorious sun that makes me so happy. I guess I have to concede that the sun is at least shinning at the moment but it is sooooo stinkin cold!!!! And everything is covered in snow. So yeah, I hate winter but I guess I should get around to the reason I started writing today! I never let Michelle play in the snow last year- because I am a Grinch- and she was tiny and I was worried about her and we didn't have any snow stuff. Most of those things have changed this year so Saturday while Joe shoveled the driveway (and sidewalks because he's an overachiever) I got Michelle all snow-geared (how are you supposed to phrase that?) up and we went outside and let her play for a little bit (while I lamented that my rather nice snow boots are apparently still in West Yellowstone because the last time I was willingly in the snow was before we moved to Vegas....there was a snow mobile involved).

 She still doesn't have gloves and only has 6 pairs of socks so I was mean and didn't let her use those as gloves because that would mean doing laundry a day early (which I ended up doing anyways because she pulled her pants and diaper off when I thought she was taking a nap and peed all over everything then got mad that I had to give her a bath, do laundry and shampoo her carpet-clearly my fault). So since she doesn't have gloves I didn't let her stay out very long- which she was none to pleased about, after a while I gave up and put on Curious George, he tends to make everything better in her world.