Tuesday, January 1, 2008

How does an exciting family like mine spend New Years Eve?

The girls really wanted to stay up for the New Year... and Husband and I rarely go out for New Years Eve anymore - so it was a family event.

Mussels and calamari for dinner, followed by a little play time. Then it's upstairs for us girls to change all the sheets, because if ever there is a reason for "clean sheet night" it's New Years Eve! (My girls and I all love "clean sheet night". For some reason it's just cozier than other nights! Oh, another post idea!) Besides, it's a good way to kill an hour as DD1 and DD2 just love to spend time arranging their bed mates. (They have like 20 stuffed creatures on their beds. Each. Ugh.) Then it's downstairs to await the countdown of the ball dropping live from NY at 10pm (in case they don't make it to midnight) followed by all of us cuddling on the sofas with each other and popcorn for a family viewing of Shrek the Third. (Funny. Can't believe we hadn't seen it before.)

After that we had 18 minutes to kill until midnight - and DD2 starts the serious NOD. (Head back, mouth open, looked like JZ's kid!) The three of us managed to stay awake long enough to see Dick Clark countdown to our 12:00 (Which made me a little sad. Not because I'm one of the lame people watching the Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin Eve - which in itself is a little sad - but because Dick probably needs to retire. I felt pity for him, and I know that wouldn't make him happy.) 3........

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Happy New Year!

And, off to bed.

Aren't we the lively bunch!!!!!!

5 comments:

Martha said...

So, you're telling me that 75% of the Morrisons made it up not only past NY New Years but to CO NY? YIKES: 0% of the Chang Gang made it up with the New Yorkers. We popped the poppers today at 12noon...because Thing Two fell asleep before our plan for a 9pm Happy New Year shout out! The rest of us quickly followed his lead.

Dodi said...

I think when you hear the name Morrison it says "We're a tough bunch not afraid to stay up till midnight every now and then!" Or sometimes it might say, "We're a pansy bunch, and sometimes we're all in bed by 8:30 on a school night." Depends on the day!

tz said...

none of us made it til midnight...actually in the 22 new years i've spent w/ jason we've maybe made it to midnight abut 6 times...

we did wake up at 1230 however because we left our garage door open and the andersons called us...hahaha, i guess they stayed up

Vanessa said...

I love clean sheet night too. Especially after a shower and freshly shaved legs!

Dodi said...

Yes!!!!!