7. Describe how you would spend the perfect New Year’s Eve.
There is something about New Year’s Eve that makes me feel completely unsafe.
I don’t know if it’s the knowledge that everyone is out drinking together or that we have multiple Y2K Apocalypse type warnings or that I feel a terrorist target big cities throwing parties and launching fireworks.
It could be that I don’t care for New Year’s Eve because I don’t want to try to figure out how I’m getting home after an evening of drinking until midnight. Maybe I don’t want to arrange childcare and/or pet care for an evening out. Maybe I don’t want to spend the money for an over-hyped evening. Maybe I prefer to celebrate each New Year with my kids at home. Or maybe it’s that I’m never actually invited anywhere cool to celebrate New Year’s Eve to begin with.
Whatever the reason, my favorite way to spend New Year’s Eve is watching the ball at home with my husband and kids…since they insist on staying up until midnight. We will hoot and holler and drink sparkling apple cider and stay hunkered down in the safety our own home. THAT is the best way to spend New Year’s Eve and I hope they’re still on board with this plan 10 years from now!
How do you spend NYE?
John Holton says
I can count on one hand the number of times in 62 years I’ve gone out on New Year’s Eve. The best place to ring in the new year is at home in front of the TV.
We’ll have our customary pizza rolls for dinner and probably be asleep at midnight, when the kids in the neighborhood shoot off fireworks and wake us up to wish each other a happy new year, then we’ll go back to sleep.
Abby says
Sounds good to me!
When our kids were younger, we’d stay up and then go out and run a “midnight mile” together. That was a fun tradition, but also freezing and sleep depriving. Now they usually have plans with their friends and I’m in bed before the ball drops.
Happy New Year!
May says
I completely agree with you on this topic. It is an unsettling night for me. I have always preferred to stay home where things feel predictable and cozy. I really hated the years when my kids were of an age that partying and the potential of unsafe driving or meeting unsafe drivers seemed particularly possible. I am secretly quite delighted that this polar freeze has gripped so much of the nation this year. I am hopeful that it keeps most people in their own cozy homes!
Mama Kat says
This is exactly how I feel! Only I had predicted we would stay home, but my sister texted today that there would be a gathering at her house with my siblings. I’m torn between my need to hunker down and my fear of missing out. Why couldn’t we just have a blizzard to force everyone to stay home like you!?
Cheryl says
I am 100% with you. The few times I went out on NYE, I absolutely hated it. Give me my bottle – I mean glass.- of champagne and wake me up at midnight, because we all know I’m going to fall asleep before 10. Happy New Year!