My Winter Wonders

I have always lived in Southern CA for my life's winters. So here are a few little nuggets of surprise during my first entire REAL winter in Utah.

• If you step on chewed gum it won’t stick to your shoe... because it is frozen.
  

• Hand sanitizer gel does not freeze if left in below freezing temps in your car. ( I don’t suggest using it at this temperature though, unless you want frostbite).
  

• Parents start frequenting McDonalds indoor play center A LOT as a way to exhaust their children’s pent-up-indoors-energy. I have no idea what moms would do this... And yes I always buy something for the kids. A legitimate customer just using the play center. Uh, I mean…

• Allowing the car to properly warm up before you drive it, gives plenty of time for in-car make-up applications, which were previously frowned upon by the husband.
  

• I almost get to live a scene from a movie everyday! You know, in Home Alone when the bad guys slip down the icy basement stairs?
  

• The outside air feels inappropriately good when coming out of the gym after a work out. For about 30 seconds mind you.
  

• More time indoor with my kids…can never get enough.
  

• More time to read while simultaneously entertaining my kids of course.
  

• Getting to wear cute scarves and coats because I actually need to.

• No spiders anywhere!

• Beautiful geese and ducks around the neighborhood because their stream is frozen over.

• You could leave your restaraunt leftovers in your car all night and they would be colder than the refrigerator and still edible when you finally remember in the morning!

• The beauty and peace of a winter white wonderland;

• Until your rear wheel drive car with low profile tires (which cannot accommodate snow chains) attempts to drive on this white wonderland, but manages only to slip and slide.

• Building a snow man is not as easy as it looks on tv nor that fun.
  

• Chapstick left in the car does not melt (added by Lance)

I am really learning to appreciate the seasons. Well mainly spring, summer and fall. But if I didn't have winter I wouldn't appreciate the other ones that much. I really am a warm environment flower. My husband forgot to read my label before moving me here. The thing I MISS the most is being outside all the time and digging my fingers into the warm dirt, gardening, with the sun on my back. I can't wait until the snow melts and I can plant a garden. But for now maybe I need to get some sleds and just try to build another snowman, this time with gloves, silly.