Starting A New Years Eve Family Party Tradition

This year instead of just leaving our children and going to the common boring and time dropping adult drunk fest new years eve event, I claimed we would do something as a family.

We scheduled with some friends to entertain at their home and together we designed a great family friendly new years party. The menu comprised mostly hors d'oeuvre's. There were about eight different ones, all very good. A few examples are chips and salsa, bread with cheese and some vegetable spreads, mini dogs and meat balls. There were a few desert choices as well. We had loads of water and soda to drink as well.

A lot of grazing over the hors d'oeuvre's.

Games a foot. There were five or six games that people were paid imitation cash to take part in and a big payoff if finished, like the Oreo cookie from forehead to mouth without touching. A game were one has to pick up candy canes that are laid on their sides over an edge making use of a candy cane tied to a chopstick with a twelve inch piece of string. The chopstick meanwhile is held in the mouth and cleaned each time efficiently with anti bacterial soap.

More grazing on the hors d’oeuvre, wow were they all good.

At midnight was of course the countdown and champagne celebration (sparkling apple cider for the children), hats, noise makers and poppers. We had the little plastic champagne glasses that you put together, about 20 each in two different trays. In one tray all the glasses were filled up with champagne and the other tray of glasses filled up with sparking apple cider.

Following the ball drop celebration at midnight an auction occured for eight to ten items in plain brown paper bags. Each family combined their money together to bid on the bags. So next was the wind down and goodbyes as each family congregated and left. It was a great time and much superior to the usual.

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