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A family New Year's Eve
Filed under: Big Kids, Activities: Babies
If Christmas is for the kids, then New Year's Eve is for the grownups, right? At least it was before you had kids. Because I became a parent at such a young age, I never really had a life 'before kids'. While my friends were out partying on New Year's Eve, I was usually home with Christy.
I didn't really mind missing out on all the fun back then and not much has changed since. There is nothing wrong with lining up a babysitter and hitting the town on New Year's Eve. Or taking the kids with you to a family-friendly celebration. But for us, New Year's Eve is a time for staying home and spending time together as a family.
Tonight, we will bundle up and visit our city's beautiful botanical gardens, which are decked out in holiday lights and decorations. We will chase each other through the trees and drink hot chocolate around the bonfire. Later, we will have a picnic on the living room floor and try to stay awake until midnight.
I can't think of anything I would rather be doing on the this, the last day of 2007, than spending it with my family. How will you ring in the new year?
I didn't really mind missing out on all the fun back then and not much has changed since. There is nothing wrong with lining up a babysitter and hitting the town on New Year's Eve. Or taking the kids with you to a family-friendly celebration. But for us, New Year's Eve is a time for staying home and spending time together as a family.
Tonight, we will bundle up and visit our city's beautiful botanical gardens, which are decked out in holiday lights and decorations. We will chase each other through the trees and drink hot chocolate around the bonfire. Later, we will have a picnic on the living room floor and try to stay awake until midnight.
I can't think of anything I would rather be doing on the this, the last day of 2007, than spending it with my family. How will you ring in the new year?
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12-31-2007 @ 6:38PM
M4Mommy said...making cookies and staying in. I would love to go out and have an "adult" night with my husband and friends. But with the higher odds for some drunken fool to get behind a wheel of a vehicle and hit us.. we will pass.
So it is cookies, then maybe chinese food, crackers with a cheese ball and a bottle of wine. Or everything but the chinese food.. since I am sure they are going to be swamped tonight. When I drove by the one nearest us earlier at 3:30 people were already double parked in the street and there was a line on the side walk.
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1-02-2008 @ 11:30AM
Tiffany said...I have 5 kids and I am a single/seperated from husband parent. My plans for my kids and I are to got the movies and then go to watch night service and bring in the New Year dancing and praising God.
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12-31-2007 @ 7:36PM
the goddess anna said...My husband and I are going out this year... it's one of the very few constants we have. We get a sitter, or the grandparents, and go out. We usually go to Jillian's(sp), or the like, and play games all night. Last few years we've brought home giant stuffties for the kids. It's relaxing, and we get to have a little bit of fun we usually don't have.
We do worry about drunk drivers, and we leave right after midnight to try to avoid them. Thank goodness in Hampton Roads the cops seem to be really good about patrolling tonight.
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1-01-2008 @ 11:17AM
Ann Adams said...We spent New Year's eve sniffling and sneezing. Somehow we managed to stay awake long enough to watch the ball drop in New York and toast the New Year with a glass of Martinelli's.
Whoopee!!
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