Yesterday, I took Little E out to sled behind our house while the older boys were over at a friend’s house. It was 6 degrees out. That’s Fahrenheit, people!

The one thing I can say, well, besides that I froze my behind off, is that if your New Year’s resolutions included exercise and spending more time with your children, then trudging through knee-deep snow drifts to go sledding is a great way to kill two birds with one stone*.

Of course, I spend nearly 24 hours a day with my kids, so I really didn’t need to resolve to spend more time with them. In fact, if I made resolutions, I might have resolved to spend slightly less time with them. Not that I don’t like being around my children, mind you. It’s just that, well, you know. There is only so much time one can spend with the same group of people, especially when that group has the conversational skills of elementary students.

It could be worse, I suppose. I could spend all of my time with adults that have the conversational skills of elementary students.

* The first time I used this expression around The D, he was horrified that anyone would want to kill any birds with any number of stones. He was completely disgusted that that is even a common saying. Who would want to kill birds?

Now, if I could only figure out how to get him to have that level of compassion toward his brothers.