Is that a Sphinx? So very precious.

Oh wow, beautiful face!

Not sure what we are doing. Our NFL game got changed to 4:25 p.m. so that is likely to impact some dinner plans around here. We usually stay in but last year we went to dinner early. Maybe I I'll ask DH if we'll go out tomorrow night. I was sick earlier this month for both his and MIL's birthdays and we didn't get a change to go out.

Staying at home. It is too hard for me to drive at night anymore.

Wow - that is one unusual looking cat! We are going to our lake place again to enjoy the last of our Christmas tree. We usually go out to dinner up there on NYE but are going out with friends on Saturday so will probably have a quiet dinner at home - maybe a cocktail with our neighbors. If we take a nap we might make it until midnight but if we don’t so be it.

Yes, Sophia is a Sphynx adopted from a breeder of Sphynx cats in NH. She had her last litter in October, cared from them until they left in December, then she was spayed and ready for us. This has been in the works for quite some time. DD has a soft spot in her heart for this breed, having a friend who has two. Yes, they are unusual looking cats, but they are so lovable!

Stay safe and warm on NY's Eve!

Hills of New Hampshire? Not mountains? Cat is sweet. We’re probably staying home on the seacoast of New Hampshire.

We'll be staying home here with DD. She heads back to grad school on the 3rd, and by that time her boyfriend will be back from visiting his family in Oklahoma. They'll celebrate NYE that following weekend. Soooo, the three of us will spend NYE here feasting on my homemade Posole (pork, hominy and red chile soup), tamales and a Caesar salad while watching a movie or two via Netflix. And then New Year's Day we'll be glued to the tv cheering on our beloved University of Oklahoma as they play in the Rose Bowl. Food then will consist of a heck of a lot of appetizers and finger foods, especially Buffalo-style boneless chicken wings.

Cute kitty! I knew a sphinx when I was in high school and it was the cutest cuddler.

For the last 13 years we have alternated hosting or going to our friends nearby, but we’re staying home this year. We will just have a quiet evening watching movies, then the ball drop. By accident (leftover random ingredients from Christmas baking) I realized I have ingredients to make s’mores so I will surprise DH with them for dessert.....haven't had them in years, probably not since my kids were little.

No big New Years plans. TBH, DH hasn't stayed up for New Years in, well, years! We usually have a nice dinner, just the four of us, in the dining room. Then the boys and I will watch a movie and tune in to the Times Square ball drop just before 11 and our local one an hour later at midnight, toast with cranberry juice in sparkling water, and call it a night.

Going out to dinner with 2 other couples, then we will come back to our house for drinks and dessert and maybe a couple of games while we wait for midnight.

Wish I had some plans but I don’t. Maybe an early movie with a friend.

No real plans for us either. I may fix some special things to eat and watch some movies. I don't envy the people attending First Night in Burlington. The forecast is for 25 below the last I heard. Most of the activities are outside. Yikes.

And Sophia is a cutie!

the last few years we have gone for an early dinner with another couple. we are doing that again this year. (like really old people lol will be back home and cozy by 7). I have never enjoyed going OUT on New Year's Eve. I would happily go to a local party at someone's house or anything local but very happy to stay home as well. so much hype!

We like go to the Metropolitan Opera for New Year's Eve, have dinner there beforehand at their Grand Tier restaurant, coming back for desserts that they time to be ready at intermission. They also have a gala but we don't usually do that; that occurs after the opera. Depending, sometimes we come home after and toast midnight then, sometimes we toast in town with friends, sometimes we stay over. It is pretty much a tradition, since I think NYE is a pretty lame holiday, but we have missed it in years where we were travelling and sometimes if we do not care for the opera that night we do something else. It is very festive though and DH wears his tux (but you see people in everything from luxe to boho at the opera). We took the kids a year or so ago and they loved getting all dressed up and especially trying shaved white truffle over their risotto. They have been exposed to opera their whole lives so they are all used to it (i get that it takes some ...acculturation? ...). My DS is the only true enthusiast among the kids, my other DDs like some of it but not all of it; but then they like the dressing up part!

Are you attending the opening of Tosca? Such an big production, rich with history for both you and your children. With Levine on suspension it will be an interesting evening with Villaume as a replacement. Please share how it was!

We’ll be spending New Year’s Eve collapsed happily in a heap in our own cozy bed. We have an 8-hour drive tomorrow to get home following our 10-day, 10-State, 3,000-mile, eight-Christmas extravaganza upon which we embarked on December 22. I loved seeing everyone and everything, but I will be so glad to get home.

New Year’s Day will bring the College Football Playoff semi-finals. Roll Tide and Go Dawgs!

Bonnie, we are! But not the kids this year. They saw Tosca in Santa Fe (with the night sky as a backdrop). I wasn't sure if they'd want to see it again at the Met and moreover, not sure if I'd like the new version. I was crushed when they got rid of the old Carmen set, especially after I had told the kids so much about it and by the time we took them to that, we ended up taking them to see the new one.

I understand the opera probably has to do something to move on and, i dunno, update, but OTOH i adore those Zefirrelli sets.

Just gone 6pm NYE here. We live 1 hour south of Sydney on the coast. There is a lovely harbour across the road and our local council puts on a nice fireworks display. We will sit on the veranda and watch them. Happy New year to you all.

Happy New Year to you too Laurie! It is just after 12 a.m. on December 31st here in Vancouver BC Canada. Will never catch up to you but we will see you in 2018 in a little under 24 hours.:-)

Wishing you many blessings in the new year:-)

We are going to have a quiet New Year's Eve at home because I have a cold:-(. I started off with about 4 days of a sore throat, sore throat is gone and here is the nose. The runny red sad nose. Hopefully there will be nothing else after the drip drip drip drip is over.

Happy New Year everyone. wishing you a lovely fun-filled and cold free New Year's Eve and a wonderful New Year!

Happy New Years Eve day! We used to go to Las Vegas with friends over the New Year, but it has gotten crazy crowded so it is just not fun anymore. The last couple of years we have gone to our city’s downtown for dinner with friends followed by a couple of hours of the First Night Celebration, then back home to watch the ball drop and view fireworks. We moved into a house two years ago that overlooks our local cities, and we were surprised at the volume of New Years Eve fireworks, nice way to end the year. Tomorrow we are having friends and family in for football, food and fun.

Waaaaaaah! Wish I could go to some fancy Gala! I like Tuxes! But......with this damn boot, I'd be clunking around like a pirate!!!! I'm nearly 6'3", so I could carry it off?!!!!? With the boot, & leveling pad underneath other shoe.... I'm nearly 6'4"!!!!

That sounds so fun MTN!

Faron

Spending our last full day at our vacation house--it's been a fabulous holiday week with tons of visiting family, celebrating our first of hopefully many Christmases here, and then zipping around doing water sports and exploring the Keys.

But we managed to schedule everybody so that we'd end up with a weekend of only us and my son/DIL down here; they are in their apartment downstairs, we are cozy upstairs and it seems like a perfect way to ring out the old year and ring in the new. Neither my husband and I are at all NYE partiers, we don't even stay up late so tonight we'll have our usual routine of quiet dinner, conversation then to bed.

Then it's back to the usual house and routine and jobs and chores and all that daily life stuff.

However I got the most perfect gift possible this year: some incredible joyous memories of happy time together with the people I love most.