Our Top 11 Picks for Winter Fun

Cloudveil Madison Mitts

Next to tissues, the most mandatory item a mother should have in winter is a pair of warm gloves. If you're not pulling on skates or skis, picking up backpacks, pushing strollers, packing snowballs, or pounding on frozen car doors, you're at least trying to balance a coffee and a kid—all in the middle of winter. Treat yourself to a solid pair of gloves like these MEC Harmony mitts, and wait for the days when they can do it all themselves (and then you'll wish it hadn't all gone by so fast).