New Year's traditions.

Sweetbeet
Fri, 01 Jan 2016 23:37:57 +0000

When I was little, my Grandma always insisted that if a male was first across the threshold on Jan. 1, it would bring good luck to the household for the year. My mom, and now I, have carried this tradition forward, but no one else I know has ever heard of it. Anyone out there on CC who has?

So we women are trapped in or out until a man comes in. I used to get my son to run out and back in, just after midnight, when he was young; he got a kick out of it. When he got older, he was usually out for the evening and would be the first one in naturally. If H and I are out, he just walks in first. This morning I just waited for hubby to go out and come back, since we were both asleep at midnight.

For several years we watched the Twilight Zone marathon on NYE. After moving to Hawaii, we started attending the local fireworks show, then hanging out with friends who live near the beach where they shoot off the FW. We’re kind of over NYE now, since we don’t even like champagne all that much, we just cook something nice, get a bottle of our favorite wine, and find a movie to watch.