The First Day of Winter

On the first day of winter, a blustery wind all morning long ushered in snow flurries for the early afternoon. Before those snow flurries appeared, we made it a total of five minutes out at the park. I say "a total of" because during those five minutes, we came back inside once to put on coats because the children had not believed me when I said they needed to put on coats.

The coats were insufficient.

So the rest of the day we stayed inside where we keep the thermostat at 72.