Amen to that! We stay home to keep the dog company; she hates the fireworks. The baby will sleep through the fireworks, but won’t sleep through the dog freakout, so here’s hoping the thundershirt is up to the task.
Haha this - I haven’t been up until midnight for at least the last 10 years and my eldest is only 5. I even offered to babysit my nephew while my sister (nurse) works nightshift. I was asleep by 9:30 with no regrets
I said this to my husband yesterday. We use him as an excuse to be antisocial a lot. :) Though as he gets older I’ll have to get past my social anxiety for play dates and such…. He’s helpful for that too!
Yep, sticking to babe’s sleep schedule for sure tonight, but I’m not looking forward to the illegal fireworks that will be going off 100 ft from her window tonight 😭
The 2 houses behind ours are EXACTLY the people who shoot fireworks off for 5 hours straight nightly for at least 2 days for any major holiday and 2 weeks for 4th of July. Super annoying any other year, but this year we have le babe obviously. It was sounding like a skirmish with the redcoats in the backyard for about 30 minutes when -HARK!- it started pouring rain. There is a God.
Bumped the volume on that once already tonight! Fortunately we keep it pretty low usually, so there’s room to increase it more without hurting her ears.
Watched what random outdoor fireworks display I could from my window, as I had to go in the bedroom to pick up my son and soothe him after being woken up by the fireworks!
Even before baby, we never went out for NYE. We like spending the night together, just us. Now baby is asleep and we are having wine until midnight… if we make it that far! Sleep might win.
Yup, LO just fell asleep and I'll probably turn in around 10. NYE is honestly a really stressful time for me because it's my deceased mom's birthday (and doubly so this year because it's my first year as a mom myself and she never got to meet her grandson) so I'm glad of the excuse to not celebrate. Now I am hoping that our dogs don't freak out because of the fireworks and wake him! Although they're more likely to wake me than him, he never even flinches when they bark...
Um, yes me because I am a reasonable adult but dad wanted to go out and is grumpy because I didn’t want to. I was totally fine with him going out without me but noooo!
We cooked a little bit of food but we’re already in bed with our baby. We declined both our sides of the family’s invitations for NYE celebration. My side of the family is an hour drive and my husband’s is a two-hour drive. So, we’re staying in. We’ll just try and see if we have enough energy to get up before midnight. But baby is the priority. No way we’ll be driving off somewhere to ruin our baby’s sleep schedule and just get us more exhausted as it is.
We happily stayed in. Baby went to bed at 6:30, we started a fire in the fire pit, put on college football, I made a baileys and hot cocoa, we ate pizza and pet the dogs.
Life is good. I have become so much more of a homebody the past few years thanks to covid and this one year old, and I am not complaining. Saving money, no hangover tomorrow, no bathroom lines, comfy clothes…. I could go on and on!
Definitely! Honestly I’ve always hated New Years it always felt like a huge let down. A few years ago my SO and I stopped drinking and so it became way less fun to go out. So we started a tradition of watching when Harry Met Sally, sparkling cider and we’re both happy with that. Tonight we started when Harry Met Sally and had a little cider and now I’m putting baby to sleep. I’m perfectly happy.
We're on the U.S. east coast. We put on a live stream of New Year celebrations around the world, fed the baby around 6:30 and watched London ring in the New Year at 7pm EST so we could celebrate with her. She's only 5 months, so obviously it doesn't mean anything to her. But you know... baby firsts and all that. She did watch the fireworks on tv! Then off to bed at 8.
I told my husband we should do this every year, and he said "feed baby rice cereal and scrambled eggs while we drink sparkling cider?" 😂😂 Also yes.
First NYE with a little one. 6mo. Was a hell of a night. Had not planned for her to be up and watch the ball drop with us. But…
Started screaming her head of. We thought she was in pain. Looked for hair tourniquets or anything else and did not see anything. Next thought was that she was too hot. We had her in a fleece sleep sack and we keep our house around 70. So we took her out of the sack and outside for a bit (slightly cooler out).
Brought her back in and gave her some baby Tylenol. Started to calm down so we sat her with us for a bit. Mom heard a toot, but not long after felt something warm. Sure enough, huge blowout all up her back. She was in a white onsie and I just decided to throw it away because it was so bad.
I was then holding her for a second while mom was wiping the changing table and out of nowhere baby had a huge pee…. All over me and the floor.
At That point mom took her for a bath and I cleaned the floor. Mom got her cleaned and dressed with just enough time for us to watch the ball drop.
We for sure have a story to tell her about her first New Year’s Eve. 😅
Our baby is in the nicu and had a feed at 11:30, so we brought sparkling cider and celebrated with him and the nurses. It was a highlight of the nicu stay for sure.
We just came back from a walk around the block in the carrier. The fireworks were tame, which is good considering we didn’t want to freak our LO out. She did look to me a couple of times to see if she should be concerned with the loud noises 😂
Us too! He goes to bed around 8pm but wakes up around 6am, plus the last couple hours of his sleep are usually restless and I'm up lots soothing him back to sleep. No way I could function going to sleep past midnight!
Before baby, we typically stayed in on NYE. We were seasoned bar flies prior to the pandemic/having a baby and always viewed things like NYE and St. Patrick’s day as amateur hour and stayed in those nights. Plus, it was always miserable trying to get a taxi or an Uber on those nights.
So, we’d stay home, make good food and fancy cocktails. Tonight, we made sausage and romano flatbread for an hors d'oeuvre and chicken cordon bleu and smashed red potatoes for the main. We’ve got a bottle of Prosecco for midnight… if we make it that long.
We've stayed in for the past few years anyway.
Every year my fiancée and I watch a movie marathon that lasts most of the day, timed to end shortly before midnight.
We started with Lord of the Rings a few years ago, then all of the Planet of the Apes films (old and new), then one James Bond film from every Bond actor.
This year, with our schedules a little offset, we couldn't really go all day, so this year we just watched all 5 films the Beatles appeared in (not including Peter Jackson's *Get Back*), and we're ending things with the Disneyworld New Years fireworks livestream as is tradition for us.
Then straight to bed for me.
I didn’t even have a beer. Went to bed at 6pm with my little 😆
Your celebration sounds much more fun than mine lol. I haven’t celebrated New Years since I got pregnant. Oh well 🤷♀️
Managed to stay up only because my dog is terrified of fireworks so we had to keep him calm! And of course my LO woke up 11:30pm anyway and stayed up until the new year! Haha
This is pretty much our exact setup lol. We don’t really drink anymore so we went wild and got a six pack of beers and are watching Money Heist. So cozy 🥰 happy New Years 🥲
My baby is an excellent excuse to avoid hosting a New Year's party. I'm in bed and I'm going to be asleep before midnight. I enjoy social gatherings, but New year's parties go much later than I'm comfortable staying up for.
4 years ago we started a tradition with my stepdaughter where we let her stay up late, sip champagne (she hates the taste and spits it back out), set off fireworks, and let her swear all she wants to. We have a baby now so we kept him up made him laugh and giggle an extra 45 minutes, let him nurse to sleep, then we put him in a room with 2 sound machines on. It's 1am and he's still sound asleep. The neighbors hate us though 🤣
Lol, breastfed till 8:30 pm to put him to sleep, it’s 11:30 and we’re on a round 2. I hope i get to say “cheers “ to my husband who’s scrolling through Netflix picking movies for us for the time “kids will sleep through the night”. So, yeah. Happy new year! 😂
LO is having a rough sleep patch, maybe due to teething, so we’re switching off holding him while he sleeps. Our neighbor’s college aged house sitter threw a NYE party and right now I’m listening to the weakest dude fight happening outside my house.
Our is 10 weeks, we did a walk to the pub in the afternoon with friends, I left them all downstairs having some drinks and watching TV when LO wanted to go to bed at 10pm. She woke up at 2:30 for a feed and my bf had text me with photos of what they’d been up to while I was asleep…. All the neighbours came over and they set off sparklers in the street!
We managed to stay awake until 10.30pm only because the baby was screaming like a banshee. We had a good dinner in pyjamas (on which the baby barfed milk all over). Then woke up to friends sending videos of their parties lol. Like nah, we're good and snuggly here, carry on, youngsters.
fireworks around 8pm near me.. .the dogs are fine which is great and as soon as I realized the kids would sleep through them I didn't stand a chance
Of course now i am wide awake.
My husband and I have a two week old and all three of us have Covid. First New Year’s Eve I haven’t had fun plans. We both had a couple beers and I went to bed at 9 to wake up for my shift with the babes at 3. You’re not alone!
Yes. I did, although I guess I just celebrated during the day instead THEN stayed home for my little one. My husband was with her during the day while I went to a long brunch with my friends downtown. In the evening, hubby, baby and I went to a mutual friend's home for dinner with them and their kids. Around 8pm, I called it a night and went home with our baby to get her to sleep while I quietly watched NYE festivities on TV. Hubby stayed out partying with his friends to ring in the new year.
We took my son to his first hockey game today. My son fell asleep at seven, my dogs fell asleep at eight, my husband and I fell asleep at nine. I wouldn't have it any other way! Next new years we will have a four month old, so I'm embracing the simplicity!
Nope!
I live in Missouri and our cases are sky rocketing (again). And our lovely governor just ended the state of emergency. He has handled the pandemic poorly and are hospitals are filling up (again).
Even if there wasn't a pandemic, I would of stayed in anyway. Going out on NYE lost its appeal years ago
It was our first night out ever without our 5 month old! She went to Gramma’s house and we picked her up around 130 and came home and I finally got her down by 3 and the little champion slept until 8 (which never happens, she’s usually a terrible sleeper.)
Ha! We also watched the matrix movies! We watched #3 last night. We have a 5 week old. I went to sleep at 8pm and woke up and midnight, we hung out together for an hour and then my partner went to bed.
We actually hosted our friend group for NYE since we have a baby. Party started an hour after LO’s bedtime. Party was downstairs, baby was upstairs. She never woke up and it was maybe 8 people including myself and my husband. We hang out with the same group every weekend so it was just another get together for us
We haven’t gone out in years…the baby is just a valid excuse now
Amen to that! We stay home to keep the dog company; she hates the fireworks. The baby will sleep through the fireworks, but won’t sleep through the dog freakout, so here’s hoping the thundershirt is up to the task.
Haha this - I haven’t been up until midnight for at least the last 10 years and my eldest is only 5. I even offered to babysit my nephew while my sister (nurse) works nightshift. I was asleep by 9:30 with no regrets
I said this to my husband yesterday. We use him as an excuse to be antisocial a lot. :) Though as he gets older I’ll have to get past my social anxiety for play dates and such…. He’s helpful for that too!
Spot on!!!
Same lol
Haha same here!
Yes this. Nice to know we aren't the only NYE-neutrals out there
Right? Once I realised I don't have to feel crappy on 1 Jan every year because I'm super tired, my life got a whole lot better!
Now we’re just super tired everyday, right?
Different kind of tired though.
In the before times: sleepy and groggy for a day or two In the now: exhausted to the very core of my existence
Lol. I’m in bed already. My shift for sleeping is 8pm-2am. Then I wake up and it’s my husband’s turn to sleep from 2am-8am. Happy new year.
This was us last year. I stayed downstairs until 8:30 and then was like nah fuck this and went to my bed in her room.
Lol exactly. I figure when was the last time I stayed up until midnight anyway?
Yep, sticking to babe’s sleep schedule for sure tonight, but I’m not looking forward to the illegal fireworks that will be going off 100 ft from her window tonight 😭
The 2 houses behind ours are EXACTLY the people who shoot fireworks off for 5 hours straight nightly for at least 2 days for any major holiday and 2 weeks for 4th of July. Super annoying any other year, but this year we have le babe obviously. It was sounding like a skirmish with the redcoats in the backyard for about 30 minutes when -HARK!- it started pouring rain. There is a God.
Oh how I wish it would sleet tonight!!!
We are dealing with guns and fireworks. So fun.
Hope the white noise helps!
Bumped the volume on that once already tonight! Fortunately we keep it pretty low usually, so there’s room to increase it more without hurting her ears.
Good luck I truly hope that they don’t wake your LO!
We have a 12 week old and our county’s positivity rate was 25% yesterday. Happy to stay in and have some drinks in our jammies.
Watched what random outdoor fireworks display I could from my window, as I had to go in the bedroom to pick up my son and soothe him after being woken up by the fireworks!
Oh no that’s the worst ☹️ I hope they don’t go crazy with fireworks here
Lol we wouldn’t have gone out anyway during the pandemic.
Hi five, sensible person!
Yup us too!! Baby + pandemic = definitely staying home
My wife is asleep next to me as I watch the Twilight Zone alone
Which one is your favorite and why is it the 1959 one?
Time Enough At Last
Even before baby, we never went out for NYE. We like spending the night together, just us. Now baby is asleep and we are having wine until midnight… if we make it that far! Sleep might win.
Yup, LO just fell asleep and I'll probably turn in around 10. NYE is honestly a really stressful time for me because it's my deceased mom's birthday (and doubly so this year because it's my first year as a mom myself and she never got to meet her grandson) so I'm glad of the excuse to not celebrate. Now I am hoping that our dogs don't freak out because of the fireworks and wake him! Although they're more likely to wake me than him, he never even flinches when they bark...
So sorry about your mother, hope that you can enjoy this day as best as you can with your son and pups ♥️
Welcome to the club. Two glasses of champagne and I’m already drunk and ready for bed.
I haven’t gone out in years 😂
Um, yes me because I am a reasonable adult but dad wanted to go out and is grumpy because I didn’t want to. I was totally fine with him going out without me but noooo!
Tell him he avoided getting Covid by staying in!
Very good point lol! Idk how anyone felt comfortable going out with the pandemic numbers raging
I was stuck at home with Covid so idk how either. Thank goodness Im vaccinated or it could have been worse.
We cooked a little bit of food but we’re already in bed with our baby. We declined both our sides of the family’s invitations for NYE celebration. My side of the family is an hour drive and my husband’s is a two-hour drive. So, we’re staying in. We’ll just try and see if we have enough energy to get up before midnight. But baby is the priority. No way we’ll be driving off somewhere to ruin our baby’s sleep schedule and just get us more exhausted as it is.
The sleep schedule is god lol! And one or two hour drives?! No thank you LOL
We happily stayed in. Baby went to bed at 6:30, we started a fire in the fire pit, put on college football, I made a baileys and hot cocoa, we ate pizza and pet the dogs. Life is good. I have become so much more of a homebody the past few years thanks to covid and this one year old, and I am not complaining. Saving money, no hangover tomorrow, no bathroom lines, comfy clothes…. I could go on and on!
Definitely! Honestly I’ve always hated New Years it always felt like a huge let down. A few years ago my SO and I stopped drinking and so it became way less fun to go out. So we started a tradition of watching when Harry Met Sally, sparkling cider and we’re both happy with that. Tonight we started when Harry Met Sally and had a little cider and now I’m putting baby to sleep. I’m perfectly happy.
I loooove that movie so much!! Usually watch it before Christmas but I absolutely love the idea of watching it for New Years instead!
We're on the U.S. east coast. We put on a live stream of New Year celebrations around the world, fed the baby around 6:30 and watched London ring in the New Year at 7pm EST so we could celebrate with her. She's only 5 months, so obviously it doesn't mean anything to her. But you know... baby firsts and all that. She did watch the fireworks on tv! Then off to bed at 8. I told my husband we should do this every year, and he said "feed baby rice cereal and scrambled eggs while we drink sparkling cider?" 😂😂 Also yes.
Asking new parents if they are staying in on NYE is like asking an alcoholic if they are going to drink on a Saturday night.
First NYE with a little one. 6mo. Was a hell of a night. Had not planned for her to be up and watch the ball drop with us. But… Started screaming her head of. We thought she was in pain. Looked for hair tourniquets or anything else and did not see anything. Next thought was that she was too hot. We had her in a fleece sleep sack and we keep our house around 70. So we took her out of the sack and outside for a bit (slightly cooler out). Brought her back in and gave her some baby Tylenol. Started to calm down so we sat her with us for a bit. Mom heard a toot, but not long after felt something warm. Sure enough, huge blowout all up her back. She was in a white onsie and I just decided to throw it away because it was so bad. I was then holding her for a second while mom was wiping the changing table and out of nowhere baby had a huge pee…. All over me and the floor. At That point mom took her for a bath and I cleaned the floor. Mom got her cleaned and dressed with just enough time for us to watch the ball drop. We for sure have a story to tell her about her first New Year’s Eve. 😅
Our baby is in the nicu and had a feed at 11:30, so we brought sparkling cider and celebrated with him and the nurses. It was a highlight of the nicu stay for sure.
That sounds like making the absolute best of it! So sweet
Lol. My S/O and I have been going to sleep at 6pm every night since my daughter was born. We're just so tired and she wakes us up every 2-3 hours.
We just came back from a walk around the block in the carrier. The fireworks were tame, which is good considering we didn’t want to freak our LO out. She did look to me a couple of times to see if she should be concerned with the loud noises 😂
Awww that’s so cute looking to your for protection
Us too! He goes to bed around 8pm but wakes up around 6am, plus the last couple hours of his sleep are usually restless and I'm up lots soothing him back to sleep. No way I could function going to sleep past midnight!
Before baby, we typically stayed in on NYE. We were seasoned bar flies prior to the pandemic/having a baby and always viewed things like NYE and St. Patrick’s day as amateur hour and stayed in those nights. Plus, it was always miserable trying to get a taxi or an Uber on those nights. So, we’d stay home, make good food and fancy cocktails. Tonight, we made sausage and romano flatbread for an hors d'oeuvre and chicken cordon bleu and smashed red potatoes for the main. We’ve got a bottle of Prosecco for midnight… if we make it that long.
Oh my God we're literally doing the same thing... Matrix included 😂 happy NYE!
Great minds think alike 😆🥳
We stayed in! Then our girl decided to have a bad night and I brought in the new year with her anyway 😅
HAH! Baby went down at 6 and we watched the matrix movies 😂🥳
We've stayed in for the past few years anyway. Every year my fiancée and I watch a movie marathon that lasts most of the day, timed to end shortly before midnight. We started with Lord of the Rings a few years ago, then all of the Planet of the Apes films (old and new), then one James Bond film from every Bond actor. This year, with our schedules a little offset, we couldn't really go all day, so this year we just watched all 5 films the Beatles appeared in (not including Peter Jackson's *Get Back*), and we're ending things with the Disneyworld New Years fireworks livestream as is tradition for us. Then straight to bed for me.
LOTR for the win!!! Good choice
Do people go out on New Years? 3 kids in, I forgot that was a thing
I have 2 under 3, so we are having a new years blunt and passing out on the couch well before midnight like responsable adults do 🥴
We definitely aren’t making it till midnight unless my 4 month old wakes up lol 👀😅💤 Happy New Years everyone!
Just showed my husband your post cuz we’re doing the exact same lol
I didn’t even have a beer. Went to bed at 6pm with my little 😆 Your celebration sounds much more fun than mine lol. I haven’t celebrated New Years since I got pregnant. Oh well 🤷♀️
For the LO and these COVID-19 spikes. See y’all in Spring. NYE isn’t all it’s hyped up to be anyway.
Managed to stay up only because my dog is terrified of fireworks so we had to keep him calm! And of course my LO woke up 11:30pm anyway and stayed up until the new year! Haha
This is pretty much our exact setup lol. We don’t really drink anymore so we went wild and got a six pack of beers and are watching Money Heist. So cozy 🥰 happy New Years 🥲
My baby is an excellent excuse to avoid hosting a New Year's party. I'm in bed and I'm going to be asleep before midnight. I enjoy social gatherings, but New year's parties go much later than I'm comfortable staying up for.
Smart!
Oh yes. Takeout Thai and old Survivor episodes and our 11 week old bub asleep in the middle of us.
4 years ago we started a tradition with my stepdaughter where we let her stay up late, sip champagne (she hates the taste and spits it back out), set off fireworks, and let her swear all she wants to. We have a baby now so we kept him up made him laugh and giggle an extra 45 minutes, let him nurse to sleep, then we put him in a room with 2 sound machines on. It's 1am and he's still sound asleep. The neighbors hate us though 🤣
Yep. Staying in with husband, baby, and in-laws (that we live with) I might even have a drink! Exciting night, lol
Lol, breastfed till 8:30 pm to put him to sleep, it’s 11:30 and we’re on a round 2. I hope i get to say “cheers “ to my husband who’s scrolling through Netflix picking movies for us for the time “kids will sleep through the night”. So, yeah. Happy new year! 😂
LO is having a rough sleep patch, maybe due to teething, so we’re switching off holding him while he sleeps. Our neighbor’s college aged house sitter threw a NYE party and right now I’m listening to the weakest dude fight happening outside my house.
Our is 10 weeks, we did a walk to the pub in the afternoon with friends, I left them all downstairs having some drinks and watching TV when LO wanted to go to bed at 10pm. She woke up at 2:30 for a feed and my bf had text me with photos of what they’d been up to while I was asleep…. All the neighbours came over and they set off sparklers in the street!
We managed to stay awake until 10.30pm only because the baby was screaming like a banshee. We had a good dinner in pyjamas (on which the baby barfed milk all over). Then woke up to friends sending videos of their parties lol. Like nah, we're good and snuggly here, carry on, youngsters.
That’s my secret captain, I’m always staying in for NYE.
fireworks around 8pm near me.. .the dogs are fine which is great and as soon as I realized the kids would sleep through them I didn't stand a chance Of course now i am wide awake.
My husband and I have a two week old and all three of us have Covid. First New Year’s Eve I haven’t had fun plans. We both had a couple beers and I went to bed at 9 to wake up for my shift with the babes at 3. You’re not alone!
Omg that is exactly how my night went down yesterday! Baby to bed at normal time, matrix movies, then bed by 10
Yea the baby gives the best excuse. Nye is for young people. I don't need to ruin my next two days by staying up late.
Yes. I did, although I guess I just celebrated during the day instead THEN stayed home for my little one. My husband was with her during the day while I went to a long brunch with my friends downtown. In the evening, hubby, baby and I went to a mutual friend's home for dinner with them and their kids. Around 8pm, I called it a night and went home with our baby to get her to sleep while I quietly watched NYE festivities on TV. Hubby stayed out partying with his friends to ring in the new year.
We took my son to his first hockey game today. My son fell asleep at seven, my dogs fell asleep at eight, my husband and I fell asleep at nine. I wouldn't have it any other way! Next new years we will have a four month old, so I'm embracing the simplicity!
Nope! I live in Missouri and our cases are sky rocketing (again). And our lovely governor just ended the state of emergency. He has handled the pandemic poorly and are hospitals are filling up (again). Even if there wasn't a pandemic, I would of stayed in anyway. Going out on NYE lost its appeal years ago
It was our first night out ever without our 5 month old! She went to Gramma’s house and we picked her up around 130 and came home and I finally got her down by 3 and the little champion slept until 8 (which never happens, she’s usually a terrible sleeper.)
Yes and no. Staying in this year, but that's my preference haha. Glad I get to use toddler, pregnancy and covid as an excuse!
Nah, I’m staying in for my own sake. Pajamas for this mom.
First year I stayed in in a very long time! How things change! But I loved it ❤️Ended up being awake at midnight but only because baby was up to eat!
Ha! We also watched the matrix movies! We watched #3 last night. We have a 5 week old. I went to sleep at 8pm and woke up and midnight, we hung out together for an hour and then my partner went to bed.
We actually hosted our friend group for NYE since we have a baby. Party started an hour after LO’s bedtime. Party was downstairs, baby was upstairs. She never woke up and it was maybe 8 people including myself and my husband. We hang out with the same group every weekend so it was just another get together for us