Living in Minnesota in the winter with 4 small children certainly poses some daily challenges. Between the boots (and the shoes that are needed once you get inside your destination), the coats, the ski pants, the mittens and the hats, getting everyone garbed in the morning can be one of the lowlights for the day. I have purchased 6 or more pairs of mitten clips this year, and the 6 year old has been able to keep the same pair of mittens attached so far. This is, by far, a personal best.
Calvin is fond of pulling his mittens off the clips, but somehow we have always managed to reunite the mittens to his coat, and those are, also, still intact.
Spencer, however, managed to have both his mittens disappear last week. Oh, and one mitten clip too. Since we awoke to -1 degree weather this morning, I had to come up with an alternative. This is what I found in the drawers that house our spares.
Please note where the thumbs are on all of these. These 5 right handed gloves don't count the 2 additional righties that we shoved on both his right and left hand prior to sending him on his merry way.
And all Target has for sale is knit gloves. Seriously? It's subzero outside, and all they offer are gloves (far inferior to mittens in the warmth department) made of tissue thin knit that attracts snow like a tongue to a cold pipe (ask Omar about that sometime...).
As usually, feeling like I am winnin' Mother of the Year award over here....
2 comments:
My 8 year old lost one of his gloves the first day he wore them to school. We have a drawer full of nothing but left hand mittens from last year. My neighbor, who has four kids, stocked up on all black, all same mittens at Target at the beginning of the season. I bet they've lost all the left hand mittens.
Where do they go?
SERIOUSLY...only lefts left here too. So do we all have right handed children?
We went all black last year, no one could figure out which mitten was theirs.
For C and S you should get the mittens that have the string through the jacket, that was the only way we did not lose K-nuts mittens.
Oh sweet little mittens.
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