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What Will You Be Doing On New Year’s Eve?
Dancing Till Dawn? Strolling on the Beach? Baking Bread?
When I was a kid in the 1960s, my sister and I had our very own New Year’s Eve tradition. Every December 31st on the stroke of midnight, we’d duck out of the party our folks had thrown so we could dial the operator and wish her a Happy New Year.
We always felt sorry that she had to work at that time and miss all the excitement.
These days, at midnight on New Years Eve my sister and I are usually sleeping soundly in our respective beds. But recently I began to wonder whether I was now the one missing out on all the excitement. So I asked my Facebook friends what they would be doing this New Year’s Eve. I received lots of responses, including the following:
Every New Year’s Eve I bake bread. I put the loaves in the oven one year and take them out the next year. I’ve been doing this for 27 years.
I’ll be celebrating my 60th birthday!
As usual, I expect that Mr. and Mrs. Excitement will be falling asleep on the couch in front of the TV at 10 p.m., waiting for the Times Square ball to drop. After midnight we’ll wake up and realize we missed it, get up, turn off the TV, wish each other a happy New Year and go back to sleep but this time in our real bed.
