New Year’s Eve! Parties, fun, drinks, laundry?
Yep laundry! While many of you are getting ready for a fun night out with friends, I am at home doing some laundry. Why? Because I was told (all my life) that you cannot start the New Year with dirty laundry. Now, they might have said it as a metaphor but I took it literally and have been making sure we start the New Year with clean laundry ever since. I once forgot a basket of dirty clothes and I SWEAR to you the New Year started off with some bad mojos (OK, maybe it’s all in my mind…). So today I have washed every dirty clothes and tidy up the living room. Now we are all waiting for my sister to bake us some yummy cookies.
For the past 3 years this has been our little tradition. We have cookies, drink some hot tea watch a movie (last year it was Water World. Love that movie!). This year we are baking our own cookies (the previous years we had store bought cookies). After that we are going to watch the countdown to midnight and end the night watching Braveheart! Oh yea! Then we and hit the sack because tomorrow is SOUP JOUMOU day!
For those of you going out to party don’t forget to drive safely and obviously no drinking AND driving. See you all in the New Year.
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| Doing laundry sucks less if it it scented hehehehhe |
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| How did we cook before Pinterest?? |
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| Right before putting them in the over my sister asked “Do we have some frozen cookies…just in case?” lol |
Don’t forget to come back tomorrow to read all about my awesome soup joumou. Keep an eye out for January’s Scent and Warmer of the month. Hopefully I can get Tristan to stay put long enough to go through the whole box. Also I will be updating my battle log. Can’t wait to see how I did! See you all in the New Year!
What are your plans for tonight? Going out? Staying in? Love hearing from you guys!
ROFL!! Laundry…..you made me feel better. I am enjoying NYE eating a frozen pizza,drinking…..diet coke and reading blogs. Hoping I will stay awake till the strike of 12, but highly doubt it. However, I must say I can’t think of anything I would rather be doing. Happy New Years!! To you and yours. I’ll be back to see the joumou (whatever that is??)
hahahah I’m on my second cup of tea and finding it hard to stay awake!!! Come back tomorrow so you can see what this famous soup is all about!
Im Just chilling out with the kiddos & hubby, Happy New Year to you & your Family
Enjoy your soup today and a Happy and Peaceful New Year to you and your family! No, I did not do laundry last night-actually I fell asleep at around 9 PM I think–
We were in bed by 10 LOL. We are wicked lame. It’s too cold to go out, so we just caught up on our DVR and it was just like any other night here in our house.
We stayed in and I managed to crash out before the New Year!
We went to a big party last night, and I had every intention of doing laundry when we got home (cloth diaper mom here), but it ended up being too late, so I’m doing it this morning. 🙂
I heard someone say last night you shouldn’t do laundry on the 1st – so I’m taking that as meaning I can’t do the washing today LOL. I do like the idea of starting the New Year with everything clean x
i spent new yeas eve hanging with my son and his friend eating junk food and playing video games oh yay i’ma wild one
We were in Cincinnati for NYE and laundry was the last thing on my mind. Bless your heart… You did laundry. Those old wives tales sure do rule our lives sometimes.
I actually love that idea of starting the New Year without any dirty laundry! I may have to start doing that! Love that!
It was a regular work day for me.. 🙁 I was asleep before 12, even. My mom also believes that you start the year the same way the whole year will be. So she makes sure to start it with everything clean and positive!
I also stay in on New Years. It was just me, my hub, and four children. Of course all of our kiddos were sleeping when the ball dropped, except for my oldest son who insisted on staying up.
OUr plans for the night involved attending a twitter chat and watching tv. We are very boring.
I can think of many things to do on NYE besides laundry! But I suppose it’s not as bad as cleaning bathrooms. And to start the NY off with all fresh and clean clothes has it’s merits! Happy New Year to you!
Since there are no pics of the cookies AFTER they came out of the oven, does that mean they didn’t turn out? I hope it’s just because you got onto enjoying the celebration with your sister.
That is funny on the laundry. We do not do anything special, just a quite family night until the fireworks from the neighbors start, then we all grab a dog and I grab the youngest because they all get scared until it is finally over.
I can always go for a good cookie. Thank you for sharing the photographs. Have a happy 2014.
We stayed in because of the cold and because it was just more fun that way. It was wonderful to have each one of my boys at my side when the ball dropped.
I can totally understand having your house in order for the New Year and clean clothes are an important part of that. 😉
Happy New Year to you and look forward to the soup.
LOL I wash clothes & dishes before NYE, too! Can’t have anything soiling the new year 😛
clothes don’t wash themselves – plus who wants to start the new year with a back-log 🙂
I agree 100%!! Laundry is less tedious if the detergent smells good! I love how my basement smells when I’m running a load of laundry!
This is the second time I’ve heard of this joumou soup and I’m soooooo curious as to what it’s like! The idea of clean laundry for the new year is a goodie!
I had some friends over New Years Eve! We had so much fun. Happy New Year 🙂
We stayed in. The roads are bad enough on new years. Now with texting and cell phones it’s much worse.It isn’t worth the risk.