Welcome to Jenna’s Journal! I thought we’d ring in the new year with some auld lang syne, some memories of New Year’s Eves past.
My Five Top New Year’s Memories
1. 1st New Year’s Eve at Disney World. I’ve been to their fireworks display several times, but the first time I went it was so freakin’ bright I closed my eyes because I thought I was going to get a retina burn! LOL
2. 1st New Year’s With Baby. My daughter was born just a few days before New Year’s Eve and so the doctor decided to discharge me from the hospital on New Year’s Eve. We went home, stayed up until the ball dropped and went to bed. The next day we found out the hospital I’d been discharged from had caught on fire just hours after I’d left.
3. Moving Day. I moved in with my soon-to-be husband on New Year’s Eve. There was last minute packing and it got later and later. He kept calling me, insisting that I be in the house with him before the new year came. I made it with about 20 minutes to spare. We then celebrated with champagne.
4. Another New Year’s Eve at Disney World. This time my husband had broken his ankle and was in a wheelchair. We couldn’t get a motorized one that day, so I had to push him all over the park. Epcot does NOT lie on flat ground! And again, the fireworks were spectacular.
5. New Year’s Eve Party. My senior year in high school I decided to have a New Year’s Eve party. It ended up with about four kids showing up so we sat around and watched Dick Clark on TV and drank sparkling grape juice at midnight. I have not had a New Year’s Eve party since.
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Top memory? Spending it with my children.
Jennifer Rote
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Grape juice at midnight sounds like a great party! Happy New Year!
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Spending New Year`s Eve surrounded by my family, close relatives and friends. Counting down to midnight, drinking champagne and watching fireworks!
Thanks for thinking about the INT readers! 🙂
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I don’t have an extraordinary NY memory, they are all the same and non-spectacular.
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watching the countdown with family
Happy new year!
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Happy New Year!!!! Best New Year’s Eve was the first one I spent with my husband.
jkgf27@verizon.net
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I’ve gone some interesting places for NYE (Paris was spectacular!), but my favorite memories are the quiet ones at home with the whole family.
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My top memory is when my sister told us she was pregnant 🙂
Happy New Year!
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Hi! Happy New Years! I spent the day with my family. We watched movies, put together a puzzle and toaster in the new year. Thanks for the awesome hop and all the giveaways! This is so fun! I love these hops! I always meet new authors, reconnect with old ones and my TBR list grows by leaps and bounds! Thank you!! Have a great day! Best wishes and many blessings to you!
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My top New Year’s Eve memory is seeing my 3 yo make friends with other kids at the airport to pass time while our flight home was delayed. FYI, we made it home as a family almost exactly at midnight. Definitely a crazy but memorable New Year’s.
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Just calling other family at Midnight!
Thanks for the hop!
Happy 2013!
I’m following you everywhere; and did the tweet thing! LOL!!
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A casa con la mia famiglia!
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Nothing truly spectacular. I remember spending one New Year in my school. My friends and i snuck around and had a lot of fun. Before getting caught, of course 🙂
Happy New Year!
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Loved reading your memories of new years eve!
Thanks for the giveaway and happy new year 🙂
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My top NYE memory is setting off fireworks.
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a not so good memory is a few years ago when I got a 24 hour bug just before new years & spent the almost the entire day of the 31st curled up sick sleeping & unable to eat much of anything. luckily I was feeling a bit better and was able to stay awake for a little to enjoy watching the ball drop & even better on new years to enjoy spending time w/ family & enjoy the good dinner 🙂
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I like watching the ball drop and snuggling with my boyfriend on the couch. Nothing too special, but they’re always the best memories. Thanks! Katieamanda1(at)yahoo(dot)com
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Mine would have to be of being little and curled up with my family with snacks and cocoa watching the ball drop 🙂
Thanks for the awesome giveaway!
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We go to my mother in-laws for a bbq then sparklers and poppers for the kids then home for a quiet night or as quiet as it can be with random illgel fireworks going off all night
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My favorite memory is my son’s birth – New Year’s Eve morning 1983 – so he is now – EEEK – 29 years old! a VERY interesting way to bring in 1984! 🙂
Felicia
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Top New Years…Downtown Denver…We party in a really awesome bar dance rang in the New Year with a bunch of friends…It was so nice and peaceful…then back at the apt…one of our guest seem to have an leaking issue and we couldn’t help it but put them in a diaper thus making him the New Year’s Baby…Hey We were still young and stupid…it was too funny…the pics were priceless at work..I still miss those guys 😦
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We usually spend the evening at home.
mce1011 AT aol DOT com
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Being with my Dad and seeing some of the Rose Parade floats drive by one New Year’s Eve. My Dad has long been deceased so the memory is sweet.
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I always just stay home with my kids!
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We hung out with our kiddos 🙂 and toasted the new year
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