Encouragement

New Year’s Eve…With The Kids?!

I love the holidays.  I really think they should just skip Halloween – who needs it?   Magazines should be filled with tantalizing Thanksgiving recipes starting in September and let’s deck the malls with Christmas in October.  Every year, I can’t wait for the holidays.

Until, I get to New Year’s Eve.  It’s kind of an afterthought for me.  I am somewhat of a New Year’s misfit.  After Christmas day all the relatives take that “holiday feeling” home with them and my house seems…very unparty like.  My homey visions of Christmas vaporize and are replaced by glossy visions of New Year’s Eve – a picture I just don’t fit in to.

I am not glamorous.

I am not raucous.

And after Christmas, I do not have the energy to produce anything

sumptuous!

But I do like to celebrate and after holidays and days filled with family, it is fun to reunite with some friends.

So here is my favorite New Year’s fit – a progressive party with the kids, kind of.  Get together with  a few other families.  It doesn’t matter if the kids vary in ages a little.  Hire the older children as sitters for the night. Then plant them all in the most child friendly house with lots of games and goodies.   The adults head to another house for appetizers.  Progress to another house for dinner.  After dinner reunite with the children at the kid house for dessert and to usher in the new year.  If you have really little ones you can pretend to usher in the new year 2-3 hours early.

It is a great non-glamorous, non-raucous, party combination of a little adult time and a little family time with a lot of cheering the New Year in together at the end.

It’s a homey New Year’s Eve.

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