Before lighting a fire, get some wood in.

Before that, split a semi-infinite amount of wood.

Before that, restack the new, wet wood, properly, so you can get to the dry stuff behind it.

Before that, find the ax, or hammer and wedges.

At some point in this process, be glad you're the one outside working, and so staying warm, rather than the one inside who looked at you lovingly, and meaningfully said 'I'm cold'...