C-c-c-cold

Here's something that will never work in North Carolina: Tonight, if you take a mug of boiling water outside and throw it into the air, it will evaporate. No lie. We probably will break Denver's all-time low of -9. Only in this kind of weather can a 62-degree house feel tropical after being outside.
We walked home from school today (we had to; we're watching the grrls' friend this week, and they won't all fit in the car), and two out of the four were crying by the time we made the six-block trip home. In coats, hats, ski gloves, long johns under two shirts and jeans, and snow boots. I think I got minor frostbite on one section of my body, which still stings and hurts five hours later.