Land of Eternal Spring, My Foot!
Posted on November 17, 2007 - Filed Under Simple Life |
So, supposedly Guatemala is warm. In fact, in my guidebook it said “Guatemala is known as The Land of Eternal Spring for its warm, temperate climate”. Ha!
I don´t actually have a thermometer, but I swear it´s under 15º right now. My nose is frozen. I´m wearing a tank top, a long sleeved shirt and a fleece sweater and I´m still cold. This morning, I had a hat on.
Now, remember, I´m from Canada. I lived through -50º winters in an un-insulated wooden house that only had a wood stove for heat. So, it´s not like I´m from the Sun or anything. But still, I´m cold. And since this is supposedly the Land of Eternal Spring, there is no indoor heating. I boil bottles to warm the house up (thank goodness it´s all enclosed now!).
But want to know something really weird? I´m wrapped in my sleeping bag shivering and Dorian is stripping down to his diaper. He´s perfectly happy to run around barefoot on the icy tiles and asks for ice cream for breakfast (ok, he got that one from me, ice cream is good any time, any weather). Kids are strange.
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Hmm, that is kind of odd. It’s barely cold here and all my kids ask for now is hot cocoa. Although if I offered ice cream for breakfast I know they’d take it!
15C is the current temperature setting inside my office right now! I am wearing a light jacket all the time at work!
Here in CT…I will wait on ice cream until spring. We definitely are on the same page with the cold though!
Kimmie
mama to 6
one homemade and 5 adopted
I feel for you. It got down in the 40s a couple nights ago (in Florida), and I thought I was going to freeze to death. It was the night I finally broke down and turned the heat on. I can’t imagine if we didn’t have heat!
I have a son like yours. When he was a baby I would try to cover him up at night and he’d kick the covers off. When he was a little older (when we lived in Alabama), it would be winter time — cold and rainy and about 40 degrees, and I would catch him (more than once) outside barefoot and without a shirt! He said he felt fine!