This is the first post in this blog that I started mainly for you, Lindsay ;) My sister in law, who lives in Kansas, wanted me to make a mini series of tuturials on how to dress the kids when it's cold outside. I live in Norway, and I know that she has many times seen the pictures of us out in the snow, thinking we are crazy.  For example, during the wintertime we can stay out for hours doing winter activities, like sliding down hills, go skiing, play in the snow, and we very often pack lunch or grill hot dogs over the fire and eat outside in the woods. In daycare children are outside for hours every day, in school they are outside in the recesses and also have activity days outside. Where we live, the temperatures during the wintertime can vary between +10 degrees celcius and -20 degrees celcius. It is very important to know how to dress the kids so that they won't get cold or wet.
I'm not really sure how I am going to do this, since I don't really know what is interesting for people to know, and also living in Norway these are just stuff that one knows. By looking out the window and at the thermometer, I just know if we need one or two layers of wool, if we need the thick or thin wool, the thick or thin hat, the thin rainproof suit or the thick, warm suit. It's just difficult to say how we dress the kids, because there are just so many options. So I'm thinking I would categorize the post by weather/temperature, and also do posts on hands, feet and head and the best material ever; wool, deserves a post of it's own.

(Old pictures. We don't have snow here just yet ;)