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anyone else depressed re: new year's eve?
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Anonymous
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No sitter. We're home tonight. I should be excited to spend a romantic evening home with my husband but find myself feeling like we're missing out. We don't have a lot of couple friends so I guess I feel particularly isolated today.
Anyone else feel similarly? |
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| I think alot of parents with young kids spend New Years like that...we did several times. Once they get older you can go out again, as they will make their own New Years plans down the road. But if you are missing a New Year shindig, why not throw a party at your place so you can have fun and be with the kids? When I lived in California with no babysitters or family nearby, New Years was always spent at home rocking the kids to sleep before the apple dropped. But now that I am around family in DC, big family parties allow me to be with the kids and celebrate with adults. Don't be depressed...be happy that you are with your kids on New Years. Some parents might not be so lucky. |
Anonymous
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I hear ya! I love my newborn DD more than life itself and am so elated to have her in my life, but sometimes I find myself mourning my pre-baby lifestyle.
It is ok though. I still wouldn't trade it in for such a precious little person. When I see those "party-hardy" chics in their skimpy pants and shirts I think to myself that they still don't have nothing on me because we (hubby, baby, and me) are a family now and that is worth more than a night out on the town. Besides, my hubby hasn't given up the pre-baby lifestyle (happy hour, video games, all day/all weekend football, drinking till 2am, etc.) so I can live it vicarously through him. hang in there. Think of it as a visa commercial - little black dress - $75 nice dinner at fancy restaurant for 2 - $100 New Year's drink/cocktails - $25 Giving that up to spend the first new years with precious DD - priceless. ...oh my gosh, that was super lame what I just wrote - I must be turning into a mom! |
Anonymous
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hi there,
we are home too...I am ok with it. I figure we will have plenty of opportunties to go out but not many to "stay up" with our kids (read:9 pm) and then, well sleep. I am 6 months along with my third so I could never make it much past 10. I do believe, although he won't admit it, that my husband is not looking forward to being the only one up at midnight. Oh well. Happy New Year to all!!!! |
Anonymous
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Ugh! I'm so glad I finally have an excuse to NOT go out on New Year's! lol. I always hated the overpriced dinners and drinks and getting horribly drunk and spending the next day bedridden! haha - I guess that last part was my own choice to consume way too much alcohol! I hear ya, though - it's Saturday nights in May that always get me - the outdoor patios, gorgeous weather and great food and dinners that can last for hours....
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Anonymous
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Make it fun...Rent a movie you've wanted to watch, cook something really yummy, have a nice bottle of Champagne or sparkling wine, play a fun boardgame...Start some new family traditions!
Look at the really bright side: you won't wake up with a massive hangover for New Year's Day! |
Anonymous
| OP here. Thanks for the supportive posts. I'll toast to all of you at midnight. Cheers! |
Anonymous
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I Win! My husband is working tonight and I am alone with the kids.
Amy |
Anonymous
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After feeling frazzled from Christmas and traveling these last couple of weeks, I'm relishing a quiet evening home with my husband. We've got sparkling wine, appetizers, and a movie for after we put our son to bed. And, we'll spend some time talking about our plans/goals for 2008. I also hope we're in bed well before midnight!
I agree with the PP who feels that New Year's Eve is terribly overrated; my least memorable New Year celebrations are those from my early 20s when I went to big, crowded, fancy dress-up parties downtown because that's what my friends at the time were doing. Happy New Year, all! |
Anonymous
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oh, boo-hoo Amy.
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Anonymous
Sorry to hear that Amy, but hope you can do something nice for yourself after the kids go to bed. Happy New Year! 
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Anonymous
PP here again -- Oops, just reread my post, and realized it could be taken as a dirty comment. Not my intent, but made me blush anyway. 
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Anonymous
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We are home tonight too. We did some chocolate fondue and fruit, and will watch movies until the kids pass out.
Prior to having children my DH and I stayed in too. We drank some beers, played cards, watched movies and took breaks between movies for make out sessions. |
Anonymous
| Um I think I win. Its my last birthday in my 20s tonight and I am 8 months pregnant...Talk about a travesty of justice (or just bad planning on our part!). Bah humbug to all the annoying girlies running around in their skimpy party dresses tonight celebrating! |
Anonymous
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My DH got off work at noon, went to the bar until 5pm with co-workers and would not answer his freakin phone. He came home at 5pm acting like it was earlier than he is usually home. He insisted we take our 6 month old out with us tonight and when I insisted it was a bad bad bad idea for both us and the other people he decided to go without us. Not wanting an overtired, crabby, crying baby at someone else's home is silly of me!!! Let alone having the baby on the road with all the kooks.... It's our first New Year's with baby and he left me at home. Part of me is ok with it because I don't need to sit here with him but the other part of me hates him right now for not wanting to be with us.
I think he just wanted me to drive so he could drink. I pointed out he didn't need me to drive him this afternoon he left the bar. Arrrrrr. |