On New Year's Eve

It may sound impossible but it can be possible that you will still be enjoying your New Year's Eve party with the children - even without having to hire a baby sitter!

Infants and toddlers are very easy to handle with. You would be enjoying and you are free to have your party if you can have them tucked in and turn on your baby monitor - just be sure that you are limiting the alcohol intake the noise lowered down.

Usually these preschoolers and children in the early elementary grades are the ones who will be really happy and would love to celebrate the New Year.

For you to have all the excitement, then you can announce ahead of time like a day or two that you will have a night-time New Year's party with pajamas on as a requirement.

When you will have to go shopping for groceries, you can let your child go with you and have him pick some party snack. It will add to the excitement when you go to the party store and you will go and buy some affordable noisemakers.

Or, try to have the time of creating your home-made decorations and noisemakers. Visiting the web site will be a good thing to do for more ideas.

On an early evening or the afternoon of December 1, you can have your time together with the oversized construction paper, markers, glue sticks, scissors and crayons to be made as party hats.

Now, the nice thing here is that, these young children will not mind that "midnight" is at 9pm or it could be earlier than that.

The best thing that you can do is you start wearing your party hats and then do the countdown until 10 and then shout "Happy New Year" with such loud noise with those kisses and hugs. Then you may have your part snack.

Got some older lad in the house?

You may have more fun and enjoyable choices as these children grow up. You might:

You can have a print out the lyrics of the song Auld Lang Syne" ("times long past") from the web and try to learn the song as a family. In visiting a particular web site, you will be able to hear the song and have its lyrics as well. Keep inside the box all the photos, the ticket stubs, and all the souvenirs that you have kept from the year that is gonna end. Everybody will have his/her turn to pick one of the items inside tha box and have the chance to share some fond memories. With the elders' guidance, the children will be given the chance to make their home-made party snacks. You can watch together some rented videos or sitcoms. The "Honeymooners" or the Abott and Costello can be a good choice for you and your family to have a good laugh out of it. Ask everyone to write on the strip of a tissue paper the events of their life from the year that they would want to leave behind them.

After that you can have it flushed away ceremoniously or unceremoniously. You could also play the old game which is the game of charades. If you think it would be nice to have a print out of the special charades sign language, then you can have it from a web site. You could tell your family members to jot down their hopes and intentions for the coming year on a slip of paper. Each individual can seal his/her paper inside an envelope and may open it in the next New Year's Eve if he'she desires to do it. So that you can use them again, you may keep the noisemakers and the decorations after the said celebration. The kids will really have fun discovering their old favorites from year to year. You might not know that you are also dicovering the childlike attitude in you. Have Blissful New Year!