Leavenworth Extreme: Snow Cold!

I managed to take the boys camping in the hottest temperatures (105 F) in my favorite Bavarian-themed town last August, and when we came again as a family for the weekend, we hit the coldest temps on record here, at -14 F. At first, I was bummed that it was too cold to spend time outside, rent cross-country gear, or even sled. (I still have to learn the hard way each time that sledding on iced-snow hurts. I stopped the second time I knocked the air out of my lungs for a disconcerting amount of time.) But we were all at various stages of colds, and Piper had just gotten hooked on BBC’s excellent Sherlock, and probably for the only time in 2024, I cuddled up on a couch and watched hours and hours of TV– and reveled in it! We still got a snowball fight in, a walk to town for gingerbread cookies and festivities, and, as is my want, alternating hot rubbing and snow-angeling. Usually, I have no interest in going someplace only to sit around in the rental eating popcorn. But maybe this whole resting thing is something I can roll with for 2024.