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Happy New Year

New Year's Eve is not really our family's favorite holiday.  We don't love staying up late and we aren't crazy fun.  We tried really hard to get Mason to celebrate Eastern time which would have been 10:00 pm our time but he wasn't having it.

We ate leftover side dishes from Christmas, yams and scalloped potatoes.  We have leftover pot roast from Sunday dinner and I made up some fresh artichokes.  We also had leftover Christmas snacks and treats for our party food!  It was obviously very casual.

Glow sticks are a must.  And, these party hats have been in our New Years tote for 11 years now.  They came from the Target $1 section and flash.  Only one of them still flashes so we let Amelia have it.  





We love passing the time playing Settlers of Catan, Cities and Knights version.  We also watched some college football and worked on puzzles.
Mason spent some of his time watching Netflix and playing Fort Nite on the Xbox One.  As midnight approached, Mason was having a hard time staying up.  He was starting to doze off at 11:45 but I was not having it!  He decided he wanted to stay up past 10:00 and we had made the investment with him so there was no turning back!  We set off a few party poppers in the house and that was that! 
New Year's day was spent taking down the big tree and cleaning the living and dining room top to bottom.  I moved furniture, cleaned blinds, mopped, vacuumed and dusted.  It felt so good! 
We had family dinner at Cafe Rio to ring in the New Year and end our Christmas break. 

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