Giveaway: $500 CVS gift card and Vaseline Intensive Care prize pack
Remember a few days ago when I mentioned I was pulling Mazzy out of school Friday to take the kids on a family ski trip in Vermont?
Well. Mike and I have just checked the weather for this lovely long weekend and it looks like it will be a very pleasant ZERO degrees. Too warm for you? No worries, it will feel like NEGATIVE ELEVEN.
To give you a full picture of the temperature from Friday through Monday (the days we will be skiing), here’s a screen shot from my phone’s weather app:
Looks like we are traveling to Arendelle. It’s a shame we are leaving Tuesday morning and will miss the 18 degree heat wave! I would have packed my bathing suit!
In addition to being a fun (yet freezing) family activity, this ski trip is also part of a very exciting new collaboration with Vaseline®. They are supplying me with lots of gear for winter fun, including a snowball maker, a snowman kit and a blow-up sled that made Mazzy’s eyes practically pop out of her head. They also gave us about ten bottles of their reformulated Vaseline Intensive Care™ Advanced Repair Fragrance Free (fragrance free because that’s how I roll) to protect our skin from the inclement weather, allowing us to fully enjoy all of the great outdoor activities.
Of course, Vaseline could not have predicted how ridiculously cold it would be on our trip when we planned this partnership over a month ago, so I’ll take them not backing out as a sign they have full faith in their product.
Vaseline Intensive Care Advanced Repair Fragrance Free is specifically formulated for people with very dry skin (i.e. myself and Mazzy), immediately hydrating and temporarily relieving the symptoms. Plus, it is clinically proven to heal very dry skin within five days. The big difference between this lotion and their older formula is this contains a specially designed blend of humectants to pull moisture into the skin and micro-droplets of 100% pure Vaseline Jelly to lock moisture in.
Sounds good. Especially when we’ll be trying to protect ourselves from dry skin and frostbite at the same time.
In addition to packing up our winter gear and our large supply of Vaseline, we’ve got snow boots, down jackets, waterproof mittens, wool hats, ear muffs, thick socks with liners, hand warmers, thermal underwear, fleece under shirts and anything else we can think of that might protect us from the bitingly miserable cold of the POLAR VORTEX.
I’m looking forward to next year when Vaseline sends my family to live in an igloo on a glacier with the Polar Bear Club to join in early morning swims in the Arctic. Won’t that be fun?
I’m kidding. I am totally looking forward to our trip. And I picked the location so I have no one to blame but myself. We could have built a snowman in Central Park and called it a day!
All next week, I’ll be blogging about the road trip (six hours!), skiing with Mike, Mazzy’s experience in ski school, making snowmen with @insta2yearold and everything else we do in mind-numbingly cold weather.
THANK GOD WE ARE PREPARED!
I’m also giving away a $500 gift card to CVS where you can purchase Vaseline products online or offline and a prize pack of featured Vaseline products to one lucky winner.
Just follow the giveaway rules below:
1) You must be a Mommy Shorts subscriber and “like” or “share” this post in some way to enter. Then leave a comment answering the following question in the comment section below:
What is the coldest day you remember spending with your kids outdoors and how did that go down?
2) For a second entry, follow @vaselinebrand and @mommyshorts on twitter and tweet the following, leaving a second comment saying you did so:
I just entered to win a $500 CVS gift card from @mommyshorts and @vaselinebrand! #vaseline #staywarmmommyshorts http://bit.ly/1uGfICV
There will be additional ways to enter all next week. You can see the full rules here.
Winner will be announced Monday, February 23rd when I give a recap of my trip. That is, if my entire family isn’t frozen in one big icicle on the side of a mountain somewhere.
Live like Elsa and Anna, die like Elsa and Anna.
That’s my family’s new mantra.
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This post sponsored was sponsored by Vaseline, but all thoughts, opinions and fears of freezing are my own.
We are also going skiing, so this weekend will be our “coldest day spent”.
I’m looking forward to it. We are taking a group snowboarding lesson. It will be a blast with my husband and three girls!
Be safe, warm and have fun!
I try to keep my guys inside when it’s too cold but just last weekend we spent the day at an ice harvest festive. We spent the entire day outside standing in line in the frigid upstate New York weather. By the end of the day I was sure I didn’t have any toes left.
We went sledding for about 30 seconds on a day that was so cold boiling water instantly froze. It was so cold that my phone couldn’t pick up the touch of my finger to take a picture!
Every year, my family participates in an ice fishing contest. Three years ago, the temperature was below zero and straight line wind was whipping across the frozen lake. Halfway between the car and the ice house, my two little boys were so cold, I was afraid they would get hypothermia. Since we were already on the ice, I figured we might as well complete the trip. So I picked them up and ran as fast as I could across the ice to get to the warmed ice house were my dad and brother were waiting. We hunkered down for an hour and then all five of us sprinted off the ice to the car to get them back to my grandma’s house for hot chocolate.
Have fun this weekend! 🙂
My little one is only in her second winter and was a newborn in her first so we don’t have a lot of experience. BUT being in the south, the one time it snowed last year, I bundled her up in a sleep sack that my Chinese coworkers sent. It was a size 4T but had some kind of down filling. Since I work in the apparel industry I can only assume it was a sample they made for an Antarctic customer. But it worked for the few second we are outside to take the pictures!
The day I promised my almost 2 yr old we could play in the snow and it started sleeting as soon as we got outside. Some stomps around the snow-filled yard and a few slides down the snow pile and we were back in the house.
We live in Texas and our coldest day outside was around 20 degrees we built a snowman and went sledding
The coldest times with my kids are often my trips up to my parents’ house in North Idaho right after Christmas. This year it was in the range you’re going to have for your weekend. The good thing about that is that the snow is too cold to stick to anything, so you don’t have nearly so much wet stuff to deal with!
My kids are 2.5 yrs and 15 months and we’re in MN. My youngest has played outside in the snow once this winter (or her entire life, however you want to look at it) and she only enjoyed it when she was in the sled being pulled, sliding downhill or being held by mommy. Otherwise she hated it out there! My oldest doesn’t mind the snow or cold as much as she, and he enjoys pushing an empty sled or his sister down the hill more than anything else he can do outside this time of year!
The coldest day spent outside wasn’t really all that terrible. My son was about 6 months old,we had just dug out from another New England Noreaster and we bundles him up for some photo ops. Baby,snowsuit,and sled…so adorable. Of course this lasted about 10 minutes and we called it a day.
Last winter (during the dreaded Polar Vortex), we got a ton of snow. I spent a solid 45 minutes digging out long underwear, gloves, hats, scarves, etc. and getting my two kids (ages 1.5 and 4.5 at the time) fully suited up. I drug the sleds, my children, and my camera outside into the brutal cold and wind. I think the windchill was somewhere around -20, but I can’t be sure because I have tried to block the experience from my memory. After about 4 minutes, both kids were in tears. My youngest was mad because he kept falling down. My oldest was crying that her face hurt. She suffers from chronic dry skin, so I think her little cheeks were chapped. We went inside and spent another 15 minutes peeling all of the snow gear off. We didn’t not attempt to play outside again for days.
The coldest day I remember spending with my kids was when my youngest son was 3 months old and the power went out because of Hurricane Sandy. We had a construction project going on in the backyard which made huge dips and holes everywhere. We found out it also made it so tons of water was pooling toward the house and getting in the basement window wells. We had been outside all day bailing out water so it wouldn’t get in the basement. We were cold to the bone. That third night without power, it got so cold. With a baby in the house, I was afraid to leave the gas fireplace on all night. Will the fumes kill us? Will my 4 year old go downstairs and touch the screen and burn himself? Can fireplaces be on for hours? All questions I was Googling (Google-ing?) all night. The baby was still sleeping in our room but he was too little to use blankets and the sleep sacks and swaddlers weren’t doing it! So I had to lay there all night with the baby face up (back is best running through my head!), on my chest (skin to skin is what I read!), with NO blankets (baby could get tangled! He could suffocate! Maybe I should cool it on the baby dangers Google-ing!?!). I was literally checking for vacancies at the local hotels at 2 am when the power came back on (and every light in the house). I’ve had some cold winters living in MA and NH but that was the coldest time I remember with my kids. By the way, my husband and 4 year old were snuggled together and piled high with every blanket in the house. Don’t worry about them! 🙂
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We just came back from Vermont with our little one (5 months old) and it was definitely our coldest day/weekend spent! Driving up the thermometer read -16 degrees and ther was ice forming on the INSIDE of the car windows! Even so, we bundled her up the next day when it was a whopping 10 degrees out for her first ever time sleddjng up and down the driveway
I took my son too a Christmas parade when he was about a year and a half. It was stupid cold, he refused mittens and was scared of the fire trucks.
Texas gets more ice than snow, and one winter it was so icy that I couldn’t get to my mailbox; the wind chill hurt two steps outside the door; and my neighbor from NY got out her old ice skates and skated on the street. My kids lasted 10 minutes outside, lol!
Am I seriously the only person to enter this contest so far?? We live in South Dakota where the cold is no big deal. We’ve bundled up to go out after being stuck inside after a blizzard several times when it was less than 10 degrees. I won’t lie and say that we were out there for longer than it took us to put on our cold weather gear, but it’s nice to get some fresh air and jump in the snow after being stuck inside!
Well my little one is still in utero so I haven’t had the pleasure of a day out with her yet. I will say bundling in layers and frolicking with the dog in the snow is fantastic whether pregnant or not. 🙂
We live in Florida and took the kids to Pigeon Forge for spring break two years ago. We weren’t prepared for the snow and colder temps so the kids ended up playing outside in 4 layers of pajamas, hoodies, and socks as gloves. We weren’t so proud of ourselves as prepared parents that trip.
We were visiting family in Ohio, so my daughter was able to see her first “real” snow since we are from NC. Throughout the weekend we had a great time building snowmen, pulling the kids on the sled, and just walking around. Each outdoor adventure consisted of 30 minutes of getting dressed then only making it for 15 minutes of playing. I guess that is just how it goes with a 3 year old. Everyone had fun so it was worth it.
It was 2 weekends ago. We went to our cabin in Southern PA. 0 degrees Saturday morning and 12 degrees Sunday morning. My little guy (3 years old) absolutely loved going outside to attempt a snowman and having snowball fights. Of course he, bundled up-snowsuit, boots, 2 hats, coat, and mittens, could’ve stayed outside all day while I on the other hand was finished in 30 minutes. We stayed outside as long as we could stand it, making memories (and a snowman).
it doesn’t get too cold here usually, and when it does, there’s no snow, just cold. Last year though we got quite a bit, a whopping 8 inches!!! We (by we I mean my husband) a pitiful looking snowman. My then two year old and I had a snowball fight with daddy while he built the snowman. Daddy lost of course. We were so proud of our snowman though. He fought a good fight. Held on about a week after all the other snow was gone.
On a side note our temp here yesterday was close to 50 and today is back down to 25. I know that may not seem cold to y’all, but the drastic overnight changes make it HORRIBLE! And STILL no snow! Just a little would be nice. Nothing like what New England is getting because…wait for it…yes I want to build a snowmaaan. 😉
Last winter when we had about 4 feet of snow on the ground, my little guys insisted on going out to play! After taking hours to get them dressed, then undressed to pee (Ughhhhh), then dressed again, they went outside and complained that the snow was too deep! Looking back, it’s hilarious….in the moment….not so much!
I took my kids skiing in Wisconsin- freezing cold!! My daughter and I had a hot chocolate after every run – we didn’t thaw out for days!!!
Coldest day I remember was last years polar vortex…about 9 degrees out and lots of snow. We had to go outside to walk our dog, who refuses to poop in the backyard like a normal dog. My daughter liked it though…she loves being outside in all weather (she was 2 at the time). She’s only now starting to realize that sometimes it sucks to be out in the cold!
We went out when it was 0 degrees and went sledding in the yard. The kids were ready to go back inside after about 10 minutes. I made hot chocolate as a consolation prize lol
We decided we needed to bring our 7 month old onto the Ottawa Canal for his first time. Took us forever to find a parking place, then paid waaaay too much for parking. Got ourselves bundled up, took two steps on the canal, son starts screaming up a storm,so we marched back to the rand went home again.
We stay indoors. No but my husband took both of my sons skiing along with a helper/babysitter so that they could be one on one with the 8 and 6 year old boys. They skied for about 5 hours and couldn’t get enough. Good luck! It was only about 30 degrees out though..
We live in the extreme north central part of North Dakota. Every day we walk to the corner store feels like the coldest day yet.
I’m a big baby so every single day is the coldest day ever! my girls of course love the snow so I suck it up and get on out there. I pinned giveaway
In December we had a cold snap with a week of highs in the single digits. When it finally warmed up to the 20s, we bundled up our 2 year old and put our 3 week old newborn in the Ergo carrier. The 2 year old loved it for about 45 minutes. Then he started to get cold so we headed inside. I was surprised how he wasn’t really bothered by the cold! The newborn was nice and toasty in the Ergo. He slept the whole time.
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Coldest time spent outside with my kid was during Sandy – we had no power at home but my husband got us temporary housing in a dorm at the university that he works at. The dorm, however, was so bare we didn’t even have a microwave so we had to shlep to the dining hall for every meal. In the bitter cold. Pushing a then 5 month old in a stroller as fast as we could so we didn’t freeze, dressed in whatever we had thought to stick in an overnight bag (couldn’t drive back & forth to the house, there was no gas to fill the car!) Though the “SQUEE! BABY!” from the college girls were nice, I was SO HAPPY to get back to my heated home – 2 weeks later.
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coldest day we ever played outside…my then 4yr old sat on the slide to go down and it cracked due to the freezing temps. so on a positive note…we were back in the warm house within minutes due to the injury 🙂
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Since my daughter is only 11mo. We haven’t had too much outside time. But winter storm Juno caused her to be absolutely fascinated with snow! She loves for me to stand outside after we get out of the car (with roughly 10 bags in my hands) and stand so she can look up and talk to the snow. It’s adorable. And if I try to go in its not going to happen. Those little cheeks can’t bare the dryness so I have to play bad mom and I cut it short and go inside.
I think our coldest day was spent sledding in the backyard. Which was a ton of fun until my daughter crashed into a fence gave herself a bloody nose and bruised cheek.
I told my son we could go outside the other day before realizing it was 7 degrees, and then it was too late to back out. We made it maybe 15 minutes before my two year old began complaining, “My eyes are coldy!” and we headed back inside 🙂
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Last winter when my little one was 1 1/2 we had a HUGE snow. She wanted so bad to go play in it but I was worried as she is so little, it would come up to her waist and it was about 15 degrees out. My husband cleared a path so that the snow was about 6″ through parts of the yard so she could walk and play. Then I got her all bundled up and we went outside. I put her down in the big pink snow boots into the part my husband had shoveled for her. Literally the second her feet hit the snow, she screamed bloody murder. Back inside we went. An hour of prep for 3 seconds of nothing.
One of the coldest days ever with my kids wasn’t even in the winter. We went apple picking in September and it was an unusually cool day. I didn’t overdress my kids but I didn’t underdress them either. However, the day got progressively colder with nowhere to hide & nowhere to get more clothes from. We were freezing! I’m not going to lie – there was lots of complaining. But no one got sick. The apples were delicious though!
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Seeing the car temp at zero one morning with the kids a few years ago. That searing memory helps us all but single digits and teens in perspective. We survived “zero” we can survive anything.
I don’t typically go outside in the cold for fun but decided this year to go out and play in the snow with my boys (4 & 1). My oldest had been asking to go outside so we all bundled up and built a snow wall and a large snowman. They loved it! and so did we. But it wasn’t a terribly cold day and was probably in the 20s with minimal wind chill.
My husband took our girls out sledding early one morning a few weeks ago and it was pretty darn cold (we live in MI). He walked them all the way to the park when the 5 yer old had to pee. He thought oh great she has on regular snow pants on ( no suspender ones) this should be easy to have her pee behind a tree until he realized that under the snow pants were footy pajamas 🙂 So, while he is trying to pull her leg out and balance her she steps he bare foot into the snow and well let’s just say she was not happy when she got home (crying her eyes out) 🙂
Last week, it was about -a bajillion degrees out and we had YET ANOTHER snow day, so we wrapped the kids up in one hundred layers of clothes, which took two hours, took them out on our front lawn, and then Duke’s gloves became filled with snow, and Bert’s boot came off and I had to bring them right back in before hypothermia set in.
Hoping for a better experience for you guys!
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Had to get to swim lessons in the most recent Chicago blizzard, so when it was about 16 degrees, I pulled my son on his sled the half mile to swim lessons because the streets weren’t clear enough to drive. He spent the entire time saying “too windy!” (he’s only 2).
I don’t really recall a super cold day we have spent with her outside yet. When she was first born there was Texas snow (Just in case you don’t know what that is, it’s snow that falls but maybe sticks for a day at most before it melts and there isn’t much of it!) and we took her out in it but didn’t stay outside very long.
The coldest day we spent outside as a family just happened in December. My brother in law got married on the coldest day of the year. If I remember right, the “feels like” temperature said something like -20. And we were all made to stand outside for pictures. I’m just glad the outdoor photos only lasted all of 15 minutes. Okay, to be honest, my husband and son (19 months) and I ran away after the big group photo was over. Don’t worry, we were totally supportive and present for the indoor session that evening.
We live in Florida, so the coldest temperature my 10 month old daughter has seen is probably high 40’s/low 50’s. She was grumpier about the hat I made her wear than the temperature. Poor baby is going to be in for a shock when we visit her uncle in Utah next winter.
I live in California, and this past weekend we drove to the mountains to take our toddler sledding. She loved it. It was 60 degrees 🙂 But to be fair, the snow wouldn’t have been good enough to ski. (Big Bear Mountain).
I can’t say we spent the DAY outside, but I do walk my kids to school and I might be the only mom who’s kinda glad when school gets canceled; I’m not a big fan of taking 18-block strolls when it’s negative 11. Of course, we all still complain when it’s positive 11, too.
We tailgated for and attended a football game at the University of Richmond. There was a cold snap and it was drizzling. It was miserable. We tried to brave it out, but ended up going home.
We take ski-trips every year and it’s always so much fun for all the family. The coldest day I remember with the kids was a trip to San Francisco during the summer actually!! We were not ready for that ocean breeze cold (come on! it’s summer!!) and we all ended up buying sweaters and wearing the pj’s under our pants (true story :)) We all prefer the not so cold ski trips over SF after that!
It will be interesting to see how my 2yr old reacts to the bitter cold this weekend here in Asheville. Too bad we won’t get any snow. But several years ago we had a great snow weekend and my husband and I built an igloo in our front yard (with our big black dog) and spent the night in it.
We were just outside in the blizzard! We live on the south shore right in the thick of it all! Over 70″ in the last 12 days! We were all bundled outside sledding, doing snow angels and making frosty of course!!
My little one is only 7 months old, but the coldest day I had with her, she wanted nothing to do with it! She cried when she touched the snow and her face was red with cold. Poor baby!
Coldest day with my kids was -27 degrees when grandpa was buried. Brrrrrrr
We live in Texas so our coldest day was when it “snowed”. We built the tiniest snowman with the melting ice in our yard. Ha!
We went to Chicago for a weekend in December 2013 with my four month old daughter. Man oh man was it windy and cold. We took her out in the stroller and covered her in layers of blanket and then put the sunshade up and covered that with blankets as well. Never doing that trip again with a baby.
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Our coldest day was probably last winter when we had an ice storm and lost power for 4 days. There was a tree down across our drive way so there was no getting in or out. Tham goodness for board games, puzzles and candles!
It was -5 degrees out in Chicago and we needed to walk to where we were going. I thought my youngest was going to blow away! Needless to say, we just ran. There was no fun to be had, which is unlike us while on any city’s streets. 🙂
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Running errands in 9 degrees, -10 windchill with my then 2 yr old and 3 week old.
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We don’t have many extreme cold days but when we did, we decided to blow bubbles to allow them to freeze in mid-air! How amazing! It was fun and we did so for a few hours.
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Oh, I have done the skiing thing in subzero temps. Good luck! 🙂 Ellen
We live in the Deep South so we don’t get a lot of chances to freeze together. But last winter, temps dropped into the twenties, and sleeting ice rain came down for days. Our entire driveway was a skating rink and all of our fruit trees died. We held hands and eventually made it back to the house with out any major injuries.
Wait, wait… You do know that the second number is the LOW, not the “feels like” number, right??
I’ll never forget the huge snow of ’08 here in the Northwest. The kids made these snow loungers. Basically molded lounge chairs out of a snow drift. I brought them drinks and goldfish crackers and they lasted for some time out there. They still talk about it!
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My daughter is only 3 so we don’t spend too much time outside. A few weeks ago when we has out first snow I spent 20 minutes getting her dressed for the outdoors. We “shoveled” for a bit while my husband was snow blowing. We made a snowman, named Olaf of course, and snow puppy named Fluffy. Since my daughter was in a snowsuit, the only part of her body exposed to the elements was her face. Mommy does not have snow pants and was very cold and very wet. Mommy immediately began searching for anyplace that might still have some winter gear.
The coldest day my daughter was outside was probably last January when it was about -9 with a wind chill in the -30s. She was seven months old at the time and had just gotten over the flu. She had a doctor’s appointment so I had to bundle her up and take her outside. She didn’t seem to mind the cold though.
Elk refuge sleigh ride after Christmas last year in Jackson Wyoming, -20 with wind chill but so worth it! Spent the night at a great resort with a fireplace in our room! Our child looks Russian he is so bundled up!
Coldest day: playing in 3 feet of snow for hours. By the end, they were miserable and needed thawed out. I was sweating like a pig from carrying them around and had just had the best workout of my life!
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Coldest time with the kids was the polar vortex last year. A newborn, a toddler, frozen pipes and a dead heat pump. We all snuggled in the living room in front of a portable heater while they fixed the heat and then I had to run out for pizza and water.
The recent ny snowstorm. My two-year-old and I attempted to build a snowman. We did make snow angels and she had so much fun “writing” on the snow.
My daughter is only 16 months so sledding and snow man building only happens for about 30 minutes at a time before she has to go inside and warm up.
Honestly, I can’t remember spending a warm day with my kids at this point! But a day that stands out as cold was actually a summer day at the beach. It was freezing and the kids wanted to swim anyway and the water was so cold. Of course we had to go in if they were in. All of us were shivering and blue lipped but we ended up having fun because it was so ridiculous. We were the only people there. Because everyone else is sane.
Coldest day outdoors with my kid had to be a spring soccer game. It was early in the season and more like winter than spring. It was rain/sleeting and we were all so cold and wet. But the kids didn’t care as they ran around in a clump, chasing the ball. It was adorable. Cold. But adorable.
my husband took our 19 month old outside a few weeks ago after yet another snow storm in New England. We’ve got an awesome inflatable snow tube for him and he’s all bundled up. Not ten minutes go by and someone’s boot fell off outside. The (indoor) screaming lasted much longer than ten minutes…
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During last year’s Polar Vortex we got stir crazy and tried to play outside. 10 minutes. 10 minutes before we thought our eyeballs would freeze.
The coldest day I can remember spending with my daughter was in Killington, VT. We spend the day skiing/ snowboarding and it was frigid on the top of the mountain. It was my daughter’s first time snowboarding, so we bundled her up in about 3 layers to make sure she was plenty warm. She was ready to head back inside after the first trip down.
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When my son was about 7 months old we were living in Little Rock. It got down in the teens and snowed. We didn’t have the appropriate snow suit for going out in this snow, so I brought the snow in for him. He stuck his hand in the snow and looked at me like “seriously? Do you hate me? This crap is cold” lol
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The coldest day was last year in PA during the polar cortex. We were going to play outside. We went outside for 5 mins our hands were numb and our faces were red. We came in. It was the worst 5 minutes of our lives!
Sounds like a really fun time! Enjoy your getaway.
(But, sorry to one-up you: that is really not THAT cold. You will all still have fun. This morning in ND, we woke up to -20°F, with a -35°F wind chill. This is normal for us. 🙂
Coldest Day was last winter in Wisconsin.. they shut down schools for a 3 whole days, I could barely start my car.. brrrrrr..
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The coldest day I remember is when we visited Gettysburg. We went to the Boyd’s Bear factory and then did a day of snow tubing. Except the baby was too little to go tubing, so I stayed inside with her while my husband took my son out on the hill. It made for a long day, but it was fun.
Out here in wisconsin it’s pretty much freezing cold all the time! We have to brave the cold everyday. I remember it getting down to -22 we dont go outside when it’s that cold. When we do go outside we just bundle up and brave the cold!
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We live in northeast Ohio & it’s stupid cold here every winter. I always try to take my son sledding or tobogganing which ends up meaning 30 minutes prep time & 5 minutes outside because “It’s too cold!”
The coldest day we’ve spent this year….I couldn’t even tell you….we live in socal, and its going to be in the high 80s today.
No kids yet, but when I was a kid I refused to wear pants to school one very cold winter day. My mother finally threw her hands up and said fine wear the shorts, don’t call to come home if you get cold. I realized maybe this wasn’t the best idea before I was even on the bus. My legs turned red and I thought they would never get warm again.