It’s 2014 somewhere!

I just got off the phone with my sister, texted with my dad and a bunch of other east coast family and friends, wished them a happy new year, while we wait for midnight to get here to Colorado. And I love seeing the posts from the west coast, early happy new year!

So many different traditions that people have, it’s great to see what people are doing easy since they are posting it on Facebook! It’s also interesting how your traditions change as you get older and your situations change.

When we’re kids, we want to stay up as late as possible, if our parents will let us, teenagers, we will hang with our friends, college, we go out and party, drinking and carousing, thirties might be the same. Then we get married and have kids, we begin to take back what we said about our parents falling asleep before midnight!

In my family, my mom would cook a great dinner, I remember steak and shrimp a bunch, no matter what a delicious and wonderful meal! sometimes a few people would come over, but mostly, it would be just the four of us. We would watch two live performances from the Metropolitan Opera House: The Tales of Hoffman, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tales_of_Hoffmann, and Die Fledermaus, which takes place on New Years Eve 1899, http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/season/synopsis/die-fledermaus?customid=125.

Then the ball drop from Times Square. When we were teenagers, my sister and I would be the only two up in the house, but we’d go upstairs, kiss our parents, wish them a happy new year and go back downstairs to watch Dick Clark and all the festivities.

What are some of yours?

Whatever you do, east coast, west coast, mountain, whatever your time zone, I hope your New Year’s Eve celebration was what you hoped for.

And…for 2014, I wish you happiness and health, it’s a new year, here’s to it!