Yet another reason to love your baby:

The Wee One has a terrible cold right now and we’ve had a couple of rough nights (don’t worry, I’ll spare y’all a recap of The Suctioning 2: Electric Boogerloo). This morning as I blearily went to get her up to start the day, she looked right up at me and said, in the sweetest little baby voice, “Ma.”

Not that I think she’s developing language skills or knows my name or anything. But it was more than enough to keep me going for a very, very long time.

Yet another reason to love your new coat:

It’s -12 degrees Celcius out right now, -21 with the windchill. I wore my new coat this morning, with a scarf, hat, and mittens, to drop off Gal Smiley at preschool. And, with only a short-sleeved t-shirt underneath, I was plenty warm enough. Crazy! The thing weighs less than several sweaters I own, and cuts the wind like nobody’s business. If we were playing outside for any length of time I’m sure I’d have wanted a sweater on or something, but for just driving in the car and making short outdoor excursions…it was fine. Who knew we’d come so far in coat technology? Those crazy humans and their science.

Yet another reason to love your neighbourhood:

Last night I had a doctor’s appointment and when I got home I hit the button to close the garage and came inside. It turned out, though, that I hadn’t pulled the car far enough into the garage for the door to close properly, and it popped back open, staying that way all night long.

Both cars were in the garage completely unlocked…and the garage door, leading to our house was unlocked. This morning? Everything is still there, the cars and everything in the garage is untouched, and we are all safe and warm and fine in our little street. I guess the porta-potty burning hooligans don’t come out when there’s snow on the ground!