What do you do for New Year?

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Sorry for posting here but no replies on other threads.

I fancy going away NY with our ds 5 center parcs is too expensive.

What do you do?

Stay at home and watch it on the telly? Or we go upstairs and look out the window at everyone else's fireworks

Usually we go round to a friends, or vice versa, have a nice meal, some wine and taxis home just after midnight.

This year we will be in Malta with friends - so similar events tot he night but with a better view :)

thanks...yes we stay in usually with Jools but really wanted to do something different this year.

we have a chinese normally and go to bed about 10 then get woke by fireworks, complain to each other about it then go back to sleep. In about 3 years we will be able to leave dc at in laws and will go out and get hammered and fall over inthe street like the good ol days

oh how I remember it well!!!! well looks like a take a way and Jools.......again!!!

I am a single Mum of 1DD and my best friend had 4DC. As her husband has to work New Year in hospital we always get together and just make it a really girly night. In fact last year he WAS with us.... we have told him not to bother next year!!!

Never bothered with New Year. Usually in bed by 11 same as any other night. Really don't see the point in it!

Put the clocks forward , celebrate NY at 10pm, everyone to bed and then up and out early for a long walk on New Year's Day

Even when I was young I objected to getting ripped off on NY eve. Love a night out and/or a party, just not at New Year!

I started a thread like this a few weeks ago (but didn't get a reply ) we were wondering the same. We do like a drink or 3 and find it hard to go somewhere with the kids where we can have a tipple, and feel like we are at a party.

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We had friends over for supper with their kids (everyone brought a dish so it wasn't too difficult). Quite fun!

Go to Strathpeffer in the Highlands of Scotland and go to the Hogmanay ceilidh - kids and adult alike having a great time burling round to Scottish music - can't be beaten!

I probably sound like an old fart for saying this but New Year's Eve is a big countdown to nothing IMO - although I obviously didn't used to think that when I was young free & single and it was a good excuse for a p*ss up

We didn't used to bother doing anything when all the chidren were very young, but now our eldest is old enough to want us to celebrate it, we just get some nibbles & nice drinks in and play some board games, etc. The younger children fall asleep on the sofa and our eldest sits there with match sticks in his eyes, determined to see the new year in .

This year dh will go to work all night (copper) and I will sit at home and celebrate my 30th alone.

I've never 'got' New Year.

Always early to bed and then up early on New Year's Day or a long dog walk here.

I get a babysitter and go out and end up getting totally wankered , in my defence DS adores Grandmas and is never uhappy to go. This year DC2 will be around 8 weeks old so will probably just have a few people over for drinks.

We have booked flights and are off to dh's home country (Albania) - it's like our Christmas but without presents.

My husband and DS1 (22) will have arrived home a few hours before NYE after going to see The Ashes (cricket match apparently) in Melbourne. We have been invited to a NY party and DH has agreed to go (even after 24 hour flight). I said I'd drive though!

It's a mad trip for a week only leaving on Xmas day. Luckily for me me don't celebrate christmas (different religion) so it's not too bad. I told him he had to wash up for the next year as compensation.

I'm Scottish, so it's traditional to get drunk and maudlin in the run-up to the bells, then take your drink to friends' houses after the bells to get drunker and more maudlin there! (I love it really)

Glad to see other people enjoy family nights in too. I thought we were the only odd bods!
We cetainly like to have a nice meal and a few too many drinks but I am happy for it to be DH and I. The boys (3 and at that point, 11,will be tucked up in bed.) When they're older they will certainly stay up.
I also second the long walk the next day. Perfect start to the new year instead of sacking off the day with an horrendous head. Been there, done it far too many times.

Since kids we usually team up with other parents, round at someone's house for a meal in with all the kids, a few bottles of vino, sleep on floors etc. Works really well, the kids have a ball, no babysitters.

3 and 1, I meant.

Dh is Scottish, so it is quite an event for us (nothing exciting, we just enjoy it!)
Luckily my parents live 15 minutes away, and have had the dc's to stay almost every year (7 out of 9). When they were younger they would go 8 pm until 8 am, but now they go 3pm until midday the next day which is great.
So dh and I go down the local with all our mates, which is how it should be. We get extremely rather drunk I do not understand paying a fortune to go clubbing or to posh bars on NYE at all!

If it helps, I remember as a child my mum's friends used to throw a massive party every year, adults would mostly get sloshed of course, there would be games which adults and children (older children usually, I remember a toddler once who was put to bed in one of the bedrooms though and slept through the whole thing) would join in with, food etc. The adults tended to stay downstairs and the children, I would guess aged 6-12ish, in later years the eldest was 14 as I remember her drinking apple juice and claiming it was cider and she was "drunk" we'd all congregate in the host's DD's room. It was good fun and exciting to be allowed to stay up until midnight. My mum must not have drunk as she drove us home, but other people stayed over or they were neighbours etc so only had to walk home.

It was fun :) It's inspired me to possibly throw a low key party now I've remembered it!

This year, I am celebrating my birthday in cyberspace with my twin ha ha I wish SOH.