Tuesday, January 25, 2011
winter morning ritual
This is a glimpse at our morning ritual in these single digit mornings. Of course our closets do not benefit from the warm glow of the space heaters. So when we pull out our clothes for the day they are frigid cold at best, and sometimes actually moist and freezing if they were upa against an uninsulated part of the hull. So there is a process.
Piece by piece, slowly in the cold morning air, the clothes get warmed up on the space heaters. Zach does this automatically now. First his socks. Then shirt. Then undies. His order of clothing priority makes me giggle. And I love hearing him talk out loud through the process, telling each piece of clothing what it is doing that day and making happy AHHHhhhhs as the warm clothes make contact with his skin.
I warm up my things too. Though sometimes I get impatient with this ritual or I am simply in a rush and I am reprimanded by clothes that are only warm in spots and sting my skin with biting cold cloth. Patience, it says. Patience.
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"His order of clothing priority makes me giggle." me too. :)
Makes me giggle too! Stay warm!
Love how methodical he is. Sounds like a future engineer...
Heehee...that's such a cute post. And adorable picture of Zach warming his clothes. My kids love when I bring them towels (after bath) straight from the dryer. Not quite the same, I guess. :)
When I used to camp in the cold I would put my clothes for the next day in the bottom of the sleeping bag to warm up over night. Nothing like putting on pre-warmed socks!
oh i love this cindy!
we have a space heater related morning ritual too...first one up turns it on to warm our frigid cold bathroom!
and then we all head downstairs to warm up by the woodstove.
SO hard to walk away from it and back into our cold kitchen early in the morning!!
Just a thought...have you thought of pulling some of your clothing (especially the stuff you don't worry about wrinkling too much, like jeans, underwear and socks) into bed with you at night. I know that you have a family bed, and extra clothing in there might just be too much...We have a woodstove and my husband is always up at 4am to stoke it for us this time of year. Wouldn't have it any other way though!
Oops, just read the earlier post. Another camper who thinks like I do!
We are a tad south of you (on the Tennessee River in Chattanooga, TN), and we do the same thing too. We also boil some water first thing in the morning. We recently bought an electric blanket. Going to bed has never felt so good!
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