We're celebrating the first cold spell today in St. Paul, and looking forward to winter which should be with us in a few weeks. Winter is the season that makes us the great people we are.
Winter is a very important developmental tool.
It gives children a sense of realistic expectations. We're going to be indoors mostly, eating a lot of animal fats, and using the furniture for fuel, and not doing laundry or cleaning except to pick the lice off each other, and probably in a few months one of us will go stark raving berserk. And probably we're going to have to kill Rex and eat him. Winter teaches us that we don't always have control over what happens to us, that we may need to deal with frustrations and challenges. I'm sorry, honey.