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How do you bring in the new years?
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gardenmama
Vermont
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| Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 2:34 pm Post subject: How do you bring in the new years? |
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I of course LOVE to cook and entertain. And although the house is small I love to fill it family. Tonight my mom will join me, my honey, Logan, my mother in law and father in law. Tonight we will have a lot of munchie finger foods to enjoy all night long. I will be making sausage stuffed mushrooms, mini quiches, mini hotdogs in puff pastry and shrimp cocktail. Of main meal will be beef and chicken fondue. We will eat and laugh and play games all night. We will hook up to the internet to and bring in the new year with our family in England. We will get to celebrate 2 times tonight. I guess you can never have enough champagne. And of course we will have Dick Clark's rocking new year on. I have been bringing in the New Year with Dick Clark since I was a child.
We don't like to go out for a lot of reasons...mostly safety. You can't be sure everyone on the road is being safe with the drinking. So at home we can drink, eat and be merry.
Everyone out in Stewland have a Happy New Year!
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kuntrygal
Texas ~ Zone 8
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| Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 2:48 pm Post subject: |
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Same to you Michele... sounds like you and your family have a lot of safe fun. I am venturing out this year for the first time since 1994. DH, DD and I would always go out to eat at a really nice resturant, but always went early, so we could be home before the drunks hit the road. Then we would have a quite evening at home. DH would usually be in bed at midnight and DD would be at a friends house. For the last 37 years, I would ring in the NY with Dick Clark!! Is there any other way????
Happy New Year everyone!
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eileen
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Scotland
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New Year is a very quiet affair here and Ian and I usually celebrate it with a nice cup of tea before going to bed!! Not very exciting but our children have their own plans at this time of year and don't want us 'old fogies' spoiling things for them. There's always a big party in Edinburgh though to celebrate but it's way too cold, crowded and full of drunks for us. Definately getting old when staying at home seems a better option eh? 
Boring or what!!! 
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toni
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North Texas, Zone 8a
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| Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 3:03 pm Post subject: |
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Happy New Year to you too.
For the last few years we have gone to a party at a friends house and will again tonight.
I haven't watched the Dick Clark New Years Eve in years....he kept up with the music/performers of the time but I haven't heard any of them I care for in years. Guess I am just showing my age. 
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Sherry8
Wisconsin...zone 4
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Quiet one here...we will have a nice meal and most likely be in bed by 10....I would sure like to join gardenmama and her family though. Playing games sounds like a nice time....
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dooley
Texas
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We'll be staying home tonight and Glenda made sure I have a puzzle to work. Maybe I will invite her over to help. Tomorrow we have invited Glenda and family to eat with us. dooley
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Capt Kirk
Ohio, USA
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Happy New Year to everybody! Let's see, I usually fall asleep in my recliner about 8:30 or 9, my wife wakes me up just after midnight and tells me to go to bed. That's about the extent of my celebrating!
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petunia
northern michigan
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| Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 4:52 pm Post subject: |
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Since I started working in May, this will be the first year I'll have to work. But not so bad I only have to work till 11:00. Then I'll go to my daughters and finish celebrating there and also watch the Dick Clarks rocking in the New year show, we always watch the ball drop this way, with our wine glasses ready and a New Years hug for everyone. What better way to bring in the New Year.
HAPPY NEW YEAR to all our stew
families.
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EJ
Essex
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| Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 5:47 pm Post subject: |
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We stay in, have a comfort food dinner and lots of wine.  Used to go out and party but think I am passed that now  . Perhaps when the children are older we will go out rocking again, but everything costs so much, and we are skint!! However, we have eachother and will have a lovely evening together.
Happy New Year everyone!
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CritterPainter
Washington State
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At home with sparkling cider, a few saved Christmas crackers (wouldn't be a party without paper crowns!) probably watching endless movies as requested by DD (she loves Pirates of the Carribean) then flip over to watch the fireworks on the Space Needle. That might not happen due to an expected windstorm, and actually we might be celebrating around the good ol' woodstove.
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Netty
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Southern Ontario zone 5a
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| Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 8:08 pm Post subject: |
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We are just having a quiet night at home...a nice dinner, games and music. I'll probably go to bed at 12:01 LOL
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mtathome
PacNW of US
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We go about our business as usual here, might watch some fireworks on TV if we stay up that late.
Happy new year to all!
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Droopy
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Western Norway
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Our oldest sister-in-law invites the entire family to her house. We gorge on delicious food, different types of fish, lots of turkey, salads, sauces, dips, potatoes and nice wines. We watch the King's speech on the telly, and start with a few small fireworks to get into the mood. Around midnight we go outside to shoot off whatever fireworks we've bought. The children all have those sparklies to carry about, and we toast the new year in with either champers or kiddies' bubblies, depending on who's driving.
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wannabe
Springfield, Illinois
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| Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 4:48 pm Post subject: |
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We have friends over for board games and munchies early in the evening and then watch Dick Clark's show to see the ball drop.Then off to bed. A pretty quiet evening.Wannabe
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