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As you may know if you’ve been reading my blog for a while, I am not a huge fan of winter. Particularly winter that comes in the spring time. Or winter that won’t go away. Or winter that closes school, tracks slush in my house, destroys my shoes, closes my gym, traps me at my house, and generally just causes me to shake my fists at the sky begging for God’s mercy.

So I don’t like winter.

My husband, on the other hand, loves winter. He’s from Wisconsin, he plays ice hockey, and he has a tendency to insist that it’s not cold out simply because we’re in Maryland.

Me: Aren’t you going to wear a coat?

Matt: It’s not cold.

Me: It’s 22 degrees outside and I just saw the wind knock out a fence post.

Matt: That’s barely below freezing.

Me: You know that freezing is the temperature at which water becomes ice, right?

Matt: I’m from Wisconsin.

Right. Those guys have lava instead of blood.

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