Signs that you know winter has gone on too damed long.

• Sleeping in a snow hat is now part of your nighttime wardrobe.
• When you witness the ever-so-small patch of green beneath the snow you think its mold.
• You tell the kids they don’t really need their jackets because it’s over 40 degrees outside.
• Hauling wood from the wood pile has become a daily chore for your children.
• Chopping wood will now be a daily spring, summer, and fall chore for your children.
• You consider selling your lawnmower on eBay because you don’t think you’ll need it anymore.
• The thought of stew, soup, and anything from a crock pot makes your family want to hurl.
• No one wants to drink hot chocolate anymore. Even with extra marshmallows.
• When you see more snow in the forecast, you get emotional and angry.
• You can’t remember ever having experienced a time when you weren’t cold.
• You start googling recipes where the main ingredient is snow.
• You begin to cut down greet trees in your backyard because you’ve already used the seasoned firewood. And it’s only February.
• Somehow you ended up homeschooling the kids because they don’t seem to be in public school that often anymore.
• But unfortunately, though you are homeschooling your children, they will in fact be legally obliged to keep attending school past July 4^th to make up for days when they were being homeschooled.
• You consider knocking off that huge icicle hanging from the ice dam in your gutter and stabbing Mother Nature with it.
• You ran out of heating oil twice in one month.
• You begin any sentence about the weather, ice, or snow with the “F” word.
• You send away for “Make your Own Mukluk” kits.
• You decide that being pen pals with a family living on the Arctic tundra might be a good idea.
• You have a layer of permafrost in your living room; mostly from the soot and grit from the bottom of everyone’s snow boots. And the fact that you are out of heating oil. Again. 
• You’ve lost four snow shovels this season and there is a good chance that each one is buried in a different layer of ice and snow within five feet of your front door.
• You start rationalizing the weight you’ve put on by claiming you’re working on your insulation.
• You got the idea to insulate yourself with body fat by watching March of the Penguins.
• You have the girls at your daughter's sleep over fill sandbags as an activity--in preparation for the flooding you anticipate if the snow ever melts come spring.
• You actually make a list of signs when you know that winter has gone on too damned long.

Can you think of anything else? Please add to my list!