<p>So how are you/ did you spend New Year Eve? My family usually goes out for dinner, and did tonight, and then settles in for midnight. Sometimes we get together with my sister2 for dinner and settling in. But she lives 3 1/2 hours away, so we do not always do it.</p>
<p>We use to go visit Sister2 and go out to their country club for a fancy party that included dinner, dancing and breakfast. Got all dressed up in sparkles and drank expensive bubblie. Been there, done that and now enjoy dinner out and settling in.</p>
<p>I do believe that is called “old age.”. Haha</p>
<p>LOL. I fell asleep to TvLand this evening and just woke up about 20 minutes ago (9:30ish). I will lay around and need to get laundry going. Also need to get some work done in my room which I had planned on doing this evening. Other than that, plans include a whole lot of nothing :)</p>
<p>DH and I took DD and her BF to dinner earlier and then helped them pack the car in preparation for their departure tomorrow. He’s accompanying her to an out-of-state wedding and then driving her back to Kansas where she works. They’ve gone out for the night and DH and I are watching a movie and I’ll probably be asleep before the ball drops. I wish for everyone a happy, healthy and prosperous new year!</p>
<p>19years ago I gave birth on New Years Eve. No possibility of topping that so now I just relax on New Years. Except for worrying about the 19 year old who is visiting a friend in another city and doing who knows what.</p>
<p>Usually we go out and do something. This year we spent all day moving my Grandmother, and tonight my husband is paying bills and I’m posting on cc.</p>
<p>We used to go out, but it got too scary with all the drunk drivers. </p>
<p>Nowadays, we have a quiet evening at home, and after all the hubbub of the holidays, that’s just perfect. We’ve already had our traditional turkey soup dinner, made from the Thanksgiving turkey. I usually do some food prep for New Years Day, which is an eating extravaganza for us. Tonight, we found a Portlandia marathon, so that’s keeping us entertained. We’ll toast at midnight, and then a nice long sleep and up in time for the Rose Parade.</p>
<p>Happily at home. Appetizers including annual cheesy crab spread on toasted English muffins. Every year we collect our loose change in a jar and yearly we wrap it on NY eve and decide how to spend it. Watched the 3rd Harry Potter movie earlier. Dumped the network tv for House Hunters. :)</p>
<p>For several years H has grilled some seriously good steaks from a good butcher not far from our house. We add baked potatoes and grilled veggies. I make the teen her favorite-shrimp alfredo and normally she goes to bed early and we wake her up near midnight. This year the “girl who never met a volunteer opportunity she didn’t like” decided at the last minute to join the mass choir at her church New Year’s service so H is on his way to drop her off. We don’t have to pick her up though, so we’re opening our libations soon. We’ll have dessert at that time.</p>
<p>We used to go out too but it’s been awhile. We need to change that.</p>
<p>Out to dinner to watch a friend’s salsa band, a little dancing, onto house party with fun people and now waiting for D to come home from her evening out on the town. I will not sleep until she is safely home in bed. Thank goodness my puppy is waiting up with me. Happy 2013…the year my D finishes HS!
P.S. The 2013-2014 FAFSA is up and can be started now! YIPPEE!</p>
<p>I’m visiting my family. I had dinner with my BFF (since 8th grade), her SO, and her parents at their house. What a nice group of people! My friend’s mom is 90 and sharp as a tack. Her dad is in his mid-80s, an ex-prof who still goes up to campus three days a week.</p>
<p>Afterwards, I came home and watched the festivities on TV with my parents. And talked with my husband on the phone!</p>
<p>We made pizza, ate dinner, did a puzzle, watched bad tv. H fell asleep on the couch before 10. The kids were both home, and we toasted with champagne at midnight … H woke up at midnight, gave me a new year’s kiss, and went up to bed. D finished her glass of champagne & went to bed, since we have to get up at 6 to get her to the bus depot to go home. S went over to a friend’s around the corner around 12:30 - he doesn’t do parties, so he waited until his friend came home & they will watch movies for a couple hours. We are boring! :)</p>
<p>I am up now, unable to sleep … I am feeling a bit melancholy, as I lost my dad 2 months ago & this is the first year I didn’t have a parent to call at midnight to wish a happy new year. I am thinking about where all the years have gone (and finishing the champagne).</p>
<p>We live in Brooklyn, NYC. Drove to Prospect Park and saw the fabulous fireworks at midnight. Then drove the boyfriend home to Manhattan, dodging the drunk pedestrians.</p>
<p>My daughter’s a junior; next year I’m sure we’ll be sweating out the deadlines!</p>
<p>It’s been a long holiday season here, too much eating and drinking, so last night we just ordered Chinese and watched a movie. My DS has been working all break, worked yesterday and is working today, so he went to bed way before midnight. I struggled to stay awake but managed to watch the ball drop.</p>
<p>Went out to dinner with DH, S1 and his gf, and S2. At home we gorged on snacks bought by the young adults (this is something they’ve done since they were kids and always enjoyed going to the grocery store to pick out “foods” we wouldn’t let them eat on a regualr basis) and played board games until we watched the ball drop on TV.</p>
<p>After a lousy night’s sleep, I get to say good-bye to my kids today, not knowing when exactly I’ll see them again (sometime this year, but don’t know when). So I’m feeling a little melancholy, but at least happy to get back to more normal eating routine.</p>
<p>Spent New Years Eve helping DS scramble to get an app in that he/we thought was due Jan 1 at midnight. Received notification yesterday from admissions dean it was due Dec 31 at midnight. Scrambled to get it together and in…and an hour after midnight, discovered an apology from the admissions dean about her error. LOL. Not that we would have been out whooping it up but…adcoms are people too.</p>