New Years eve

[Bellaboo01]

Just posting on here for traffic.

What are your plans for New Years Eve with 'older kids'. I'd like to do something with them :)

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We'll probably think about something after Christmas - DCs might see their friends, but realistically won't sort that out till the day before so we'll get dinner and a few rounds of Cards against Humanity at least.

I have one who will see her friends (15) and the other has requested the cinema.

Thank you. i was thinking the cinema too. Might be a nice idea x

When DC were tweens/early teens so too young to go to parties on their own, we had a lovely ritual. We'd have a candlelit dinner - everyone made a course - DC starter or pudding, DH and me the rest. We'd sit around and discuss the year we'd just had - tough times we'd come through or were looking forward to leaving behind but mainly highlights - things we'd really enjoyed. I used to flick through the family diary to remind us of stuff we might have forgotten from earlier in the year.

Then we'd go into the garden with giant sparklers and write our wishes for the year to come in the air. Sometimes light a fire pit and sit around it telling jokes.
Then watch a good family film and see the New Year in with champagne, party poppers and Big Ben on TV.

It helped them through those years when they longed to have an exciting party of their own to go to, but were tooyoung or hadn't had an invite.

I take mine to the pub