Babysitting rates rise dramatically on New Year's Eve (see chart above) and all of our free babysitters have very important plans (Dr. & Mr. B are throwng a party, Grammy is going to a midnight showing of Black Swan, and Poppy will be at The Baby Deathtrap in the Hamptons plotting new ways to destroy small children with the furniture). SO— Mazzy, Mike and myself are going to be spending the evening at home. And since the baby goes to sleep at 7:30pm and Mike no longer has the ability to stay up past 10pm, I am pretty sure I will be bringing in the New Year all by myself. I've even come up with a name for my solo New Year's event. It's called, "A Regular Evening". Anyone care to celebrate it with me?
We've actually decided with two other couples (Charlie's parents & Ella's parents) that we will forgo New Year's Eve plans and opt instead to go out on New Year's Day Night. The plan is to dine on a very elaborate adult-only feast paid for by our pooled New Year's Eve babysitting savings. Happy January 2nd Eve to us!
Anybody else have a better plan for bringing in the New Year with a baby?
Believe it or not, we brought my 4 month old with us to our friends New Years party. It was kind of lame and I wished we had just stayed home. It’s sort of a tradition now to bring him with us as he has many adopted aunts and uncles but it’s a lot of work. We are doing it again this year and truthfully, I wish we weren’t.
I do love the idea of an adult dinner though 😉
We’ll be doing the same. Wait, my husband will probably play videogames, and I’ll probably hang out on Twitter. So, yup, a regular evening!
Last year we had a sort of backyard party with a few other friends who also had kids and babies. It was OK, but not spectacular.
This year, we’re ringing it in at home with C’s favourite auntie and her boyfriend. Having learned from Christmas Eve, I will put C to bed at 7 AS USUAL. the screaming should subside by 10pm, and we’ll enjoy a few drinks in peace.
Happy New Year!
We’ll be watching television and making various trips back and forth to the fridge. Exciting!
I think if we didn’t live in NYC, this might be a possibility. We have taken a pack and play to dinner parties before and have been able to put her to sleep and enjoyed the rest of our evening. But NYC is a madhouse on New Year’s. And we’d have to walk wherever and I bet it will be freezing. And any party will be loud and we probably won’t be able to get Mazzy to stay asleep. So yeah, home it is.
Maybe you can somehow make that three hours of crying into a drinking game.
We are having a regular night at home too. Only with the added “joy” of worrying about finding a nanny to replace our nanny who resigned effective Dec 31st…
OH— I am so sorry. We had a similar situation. Our nanny resigned when Mazzy was around five and a half months. She called to tell me while I was on a business trip. And I had to find someone by that Monday. It was rough. But we ended up finding our current nanny who is absolutely WONDERFUL. It took a few weeks though and we were lucky to have my mother who was willing to help out while we figured things out.
I will cry myself to sleep. Moving to Albany that weekend. I’ll miss NYC 🙁
Oh man. I’m sorry. I’m sure Albany is lovely if you stay off the college campus. I was there once. I remember prison-esque buildings. Why the move?
We may be celebrating at a historic bed & breakfast a few hours away from home, or we may just stay home (depending on if Sebastian goes to visit my in-laws for a few days or not). We aren’t doing anything big because I’m unfortunately pregnant but I REALLY wish we were because it’s our first wedding anniversary. And I may still be bitter from not getting a honeymoon – so now it’s a double whammy of no honeymoon and no fantastic first anniversary. Blah.
My wording of “unfortunately pregnant” sounds kind of bad. I’m happy that I’m pregnant (and even happier that it’s a girl this time), but I wish I wasn’t during our first anniversary so that we could actually celebrate it.
We spend the night with friends who also have kids. The kids play until they drop, then we get adult conversation once the kids are passed out. No babysitter is required. Win/Win.
You don’t have to explain “unfortunately pregnant” to me. I had morning sickness the ENTIRE time. You should leverage all of this anniversary/no honeymoon/pregnancy stuff into one hell of a mother’s day present!
This is when living in NYC does not work to our advantage. Parking, cabs and mass transit will all be a nightmare on Friday. Braving it all with a baby would be even worse. Have fun!
Testing?
YES! YES! I’m IN! I’M IN!!
I DID IT!!
I BROKE THROUGH THE BARRIER!
Now if ONLY I had any recollection of what is was I meant to say the first time.
*sigh*
Knowing you, I’m sure it was one if not all of three things: charming, well written yet unpretentious, and/or pure comedic brilliance.
No pressure for your next comment.
WAIT…
What do you mean well written yet unpretentious??
UNpretentious??
Damnit!! How do I keep doing this wrong???