"As much fun as the snow can be, it comes with one pretty big downside: the cold. With the exception of yesterday, all of January has been pretty brisk. Now, I know, it could be worse. My Canadian friends scoff at even wearing a jacket in this type of weather. Call me crazy, but to my mind, 27 degrees, for instance, with a wind chill of 17 is pretty darn frigid. And the biggest drawback isn't the chattering of bones, but the tendency we all have to hibernate.
My family and I live on an ideal street. Our association includes 31 families and something like 25 kids. Before winter set in, the street practically turned into a block party in the afternoons. Kids would be out on scooters and bikes and skates, racing down our little hill and looping around the cul-de-sac. Packs of older boys would be skulking around in the bushes with their Nerf Blasters, planning some sort of surveillance on the younger kids. As for the parents: we were all outside, some of us with lawn chairs and magazines, chatting and overseeing the madness. It was all great fun, and helped us be connected to our little community within a community. Nowadays, we parents gather at the corner at 3:25 p.m. to collect our children, but shortly after they pile out of the bus and take off running down the street, everyone ducks back inside their own house where it's nice and warm, but sometimes a bit lonely."
Read the rest at:
http://westport.patch.com/articles/baby-its-cold-outside?
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