It's funny, I was rambling and thought I had deleted this instead of posting it. Oh well. I agree ss with the cold thing but here you get stuck or brak down and are out in the cold for a few minutes it becomes life and death. Not bad when they were little and the teachers would let them experience frozen feet etc as a natural consequence. But, they need to have boots, gloves and heavy coats with them at all times. I noticed the older girl is leaving a lot of heavy clothes in her car so I know she gets it. Hoildays are so over now. Son will be with girlfriend new year's eve. I am relieved. Mostly worried about money for the next few weeks. I also come from a place of severe neglect so I have this big thing about my kids having appropriate clothes. In fact I laughed the other day when my son said he needed socks because at one point he told me he had over 50 pair. His mommy is a little touchy on these issues huh? I never had decent warm clothes. No socks etc. So he got new socks. Hope everyone else survives.