Happy New Year to all! We had a great celebration at our house this year. From 4pm onwards, young families arrived until we totalled: 8 toddlers (Edzèa, Dylan, Mackenzie, Haydon, Connor, Georgia, Mo Mo, Henry and baby Desiree) and 16 adults (Gillian & Pierre, Amanda, Paul & Amanda’s mom Judy, Gina & Stuart, Xiao Yi and John, Ivy, Tracey & Markham, Carolyn & Glen, Myself & Tim). This is a reminder for me for years to come!
We had appetizers from 4-6pm and then had lasagne, shepard’s pie, ratatouille, spinach salad and garlic bread for the main course. Everyone brought a little something to help out. I made homemade coffee/chocolate mousse for dessert.
All of the kids were great all night with no meltdowns although I’ve since heard from parents that their kids were so wound up that they didn’t sleep well that evening. We certainly didn’t. We had Mackenzie overnight who woke up at 3am and started Edzèa on an all night/morning fuss. Unfortunately, when Edzèa gets jolted out of her deep sleep in the night, she doesn’t go back to sleep very deeply afterwards.
We had the kids decorate party hats right before we celebrated the New Year at 7:45pm. I thought that most people would head home afterwards but the kids were having so much fun that we went straight up to the bath afterwards and we had two baths going with the kids. Needless to say, it was the only area I hadn’t cleaned and wasn’t expecting the party to move upstairs! I’ll know better for next time!
Everyone loves our house for parties like this. It has a very good design for parties with kids/people so everyone would like to do this again next year. I’ve had a few people ask us to host again because of our house. We agreed but only if it’s potluck. Tracey and Markham offered their house after their extension is finished so we’ll just play it by ear.
We had a pancake breakfast at Tracey & Markham’s house on New Year’s Day and we are now slowly winding down and looking forward to going back to our routine next week. Next Saturday, Daddy is taking Edzèa to gymnastics as a Daddy/Daughter bonding time…plus, I can’t carry her and do a lot of the things she needs help with there anymore…as you can see from my BULK in the New Year’s Pictures.
Hope you all had a great New Year’s and we look forward to February now!
