Blooming Where I'm Planted!

We’re having quite a snow storm today. Blizzard, totally! It’s tapered off at the moment, for the first time since 6pm, last night. We were the only school in the county that was in session today. My boys went, but we drove them to and from instead of having them ride the bus.

Michael came home from school and went straight outside to play in the 3 feet of snow we’ve gotten in the past 20 hours….

He comes in after about 5 minutes and says, “Mom, can you get me new gloves and help me fix my coat so the snow doesn’t go up my sleeves?”

I take his flimsy, cotton gloves that are all wet and help him put on a more appropriate pair of gloves. I tuck them in his sleeves and send him back outside to play.

Ten minutes later he comes in again. “Mom, can you fix these gloves. I can’t keep the snow out and my wrists are really cold!!”

This is when I was struck by absolute genius!

I unzipped his coat and pulled his arms out. I got a fresh, dry pair of the flimsy cotton 1 size fits all gloves and put them on his hands. Then, on top of them, I pushed on a pair of pink (for breast cancer awareness), rubber, cleaning gloves. The kind you would wear when you do dishes. They went almost to his elbows. After that, we pulled his coat back up and tightened the bottom of the sleeves and zipped him back up.

He was insulated, water proof, covered all the way up to his elbows, and with the grip of the rubber, he can even turn door handles on his own!

That new 2 pack of rubber gloves is the best $3 I’ve ever spent I think. Never have we found such a grand solution to this problem. When he came back in, I asked him how they felt. If he was cold at all. He said his hands were warm and dry and while he would NEVER take pink gloves to wear for recess at school, he completely agreed on the value of wearing them at home.

So, that’s my tip for keeping little hands warm and dry in the winter wonderland of white outside this winter season.

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