Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Sub arctic

This morning as we were getting ready for school and "spinning" I took no notice of the outside temperature. On these mornings we are generally all busy getting ready to go and I'm usually finishing gettign Poppy ready when Oscar is walking out the door. Our neighbor boy Austin who walks with Oscar came and picked him up and off to school they went.
It wasn't until twenty minutes later on my way to spinning that I discovered it was minus 7 degrees outside and I had not even checked to see if my boy was wearing a hat or gloves!
It was too late to check and so I just hoped he had been smart enough to take them (lovin logic?).
After school I picked them up (it had warmed to a mere 10 degrees) and they informed me that one of our other neighbors had stopped and taken them. Thank goodness for nice neighbors.
The deception of the temperature, or should I say what should have tipped me of that it was so cold, was the gorgeous sunshine that graced us with it's presence for the first half of the day. I can't quite remember the last time it was around, and I was loving the drive to Moscow with the sunshine on my face.
Poppy was grateful to have a good excuse to wear her sunglasses too. Though she still insisted on wearing capris under her dress with boots instead of pants...crazy girl.

6 comments:

Suzie-Q said...

On days like that I just stay home and bundle and snuggle with my girls, while the boys go to school and work.

Maren and Blake said...

The weather really puts a damper on the heating bill.

j said...

brrrr!!! that is an awesome picture of you in the car! are you still teaching spinning?! you are a tougher woman than i.

and i love the pics of poppy at class!!! precious!

the herd said...

Our school bus broke down right at the end of our drive due to the cold, cold temps! I LOVED THE SUN SHINE! What a welcome!

Rachel said...

I completely did the SAME THING!!! Not till after the kids were gone did I notice the temperature (at that time it was -11). Sam was NOT HAPPY. And wasn't that sunshine lifesaving? I just knew I couldn't take one more day of greyness.

Old Warrior said...

Frozen Oscar snot! Does he know how to shoot snot rockets yet? Great fun in sub-zero temps...
Especially when riding the ski lift. Practice physics of velocity, trajectory, vector intersection, etc....