9:00 New Year

For the last few years, Jeff and I have packed the kids up to spend the night with our folks and spent our New Year's Eve with friends, acting too crazy for our age.  This year, we want to start it off differently.  The kids are much too young to stay up until midnight, but we're going to move midnight up a few hours at our house.   I'm going off to the dollar store to pick up cheap toys to fill goody bags.  Then beginning at five o'clock, we're going to start counting down the New Year.  The boys will open a gift bag each hour until midnight to count down, only the five o'clock one will be labeled eight o'clock, so that their "midnight" will occur at nine p.m.  It will still be past their bedtime, and will feel like they got to stay up way late, because we'll put them in their jammies early, too.

We're going to spend some time making homemade kazoos with paper towel rolls, wax paper, and rubber bands; also we'll make shakers and things to make lots of noise at "midnight".  I have sparklers left over from the fourth of July,  and we'll play board games and have fun snacks.  I'm trying to come up with a New Year themed snack I can make on the fly.  Still working on that one!

After the boys are in bed, Jeff and I plan to watch a movie (we've got a couple of good ones from Netflix right now) and maybe watch the ball drop on tv.  Depends if we can stay awake late enough!  I'm looking forward to not being groggy and funky feeling on New Year's Day for a change, and starting the year off quietly with my family. 

I leave you with a picture of Copper taken and edited by Grayson with his new digital camera.  Our demon dog:

Y'all have a good night and BE SAFE!!

Comments

[foolery]

Hi Jessie -- thanks for the comment on my blog. A whole day without my blogging friends feels like being marooned somewhere (I'm possibly addicted and should seek help).

My church had a new year's celebration last year called "New Year's in Bean Town," which was all wrapped up by 9:30 so people could go to other parties or just go home to sleep. They served Boston baked beans and brown bread, and Boston cream pie. Probably tea, too, for the historically-minded. Then they yelled "Happy new year" at 9:00 when the Bostonians did, and went home.

Happy new year, and I'll be asleep by 10:00!

Laurie

[Jessica K]

Well, how 'bout that! I'm historically correct and I didn't even know it! Actually, I guess if it was at 9:00 in your neck of the woods, that wouldn't be 9:00 here. Oh well. Nevermind.

[Megan]

awww... copper isn't a deamon dog!!! :( hims a baybeee!

tee hee
You're so creative

[arizaphale]

I am impressed by this idea... I will now go and see how it went! Signed: Groggy and funky: Adelaide