It's pretty cold.

I have been getting lots of emails and phone calls asking if it is cold up here. Um, yes. This morning it was -22 with a windchill of -48. We lived in Wisconsin for three years and never saw it that cold. Billy went out to start up his truck and it made this horrible sound which I translated as "Get out of me, I'm not going anywhere! And why does that little brat always get the garage?" (The little brat being my minivan) So, Billy is on his way to South Bend, Indiana today and will be home on Sunday. Tonight the kids and I are going to church for small group and youth group. Today is the day that we are supposed to mop the floors but I'm in a little bit of a predicament. See I have one of those industrial size mop buckets, you know the big yellow ones with the wringer. And I have a gigantic yarn mop that is too big to be rung out by hand. I usually dump the used mop water outside when I am finished mopping but last Friday I didn't because it was so cold that if I dumped it in the driveway it would create a sheet of ice and the snow was too deep to dump it where the grass usually is. So, not knowing what to do I just left it in the garage. And it is frozen solid, as is the mop. So, how am I going to mop the floors? Well, I just bought a 24 pack of large yellow microfiber cloths so after sweeping the floors I'll just give each kid a cloth and have them wipe the floors down. It might just be easier than mopping! Have a great day and I don't want to hear anyone else south of Kansas whining about how cold it is!