New Year’s 2008 January 8, 2008
Posted by Diane Bird in : All Posts , 5commentsHow have our traditions changed over the years as we welcome in the new year? When I was a child, I don’t remember if my parents went to parties or hosted a party, but they probably did when they were younger. Mother used to joke about how we should just go out on the porch and “bang pots together”, and it didn’t matter if we did it at midnight or not. Funny how I don’t remember actually doing that; probably it was just a joke, and it has entered our “tradition” even now, because Mike and I sometimes tell people that’s what we’re going to do.
I remember staying up to watch the celebration in Times Square on TV, which was always wonderful and exciting, watching the ball drop. Time was, not so very long ago, we could hear fireworks and happy yelling at midnight, sometimes so loud it woke us up. We would just smile and go back to sleep.
Mike and I laugh now about how we welcome in the new year with the folks in Europe so we don’t have to stay up so late. The end of the year for us now means getting out the W-2s and wrapping up our business fiscal year. What a drag that is compared to a celebration!!
What did the rest of you do for New Year’s? Do you send cards or emails? Do you go to parties? Do you “bang pots”? And how about those pesky resolutions; anybody still do that? 
