What are you planning for New Year's Eve?

Tomorrow is New Year's Eve. I wonder how many folks go to bed and pay no attention to the falling ball. What are your plans? As for Don and me, we have always made a point to bring in the new year. In fact, we "old folks" have been having a small get-together at our home since 1986. It started out as parents of our church's youth group members when we called ourselves the "sweet 16" (I think Kendra used to call us something like the "senior 16" or the "old 16"). We would meet at our house, play games, exchange gag gifts, and just laugh and have a grand time until the clock struck 12. After we joined in the countdown, we would all hug, drink about 10 swallows of champagne, then the men would begin cooking a fabulous breakfast consisting of bacon, eggs, toast, grits, biscuits, juice, coffee and cinnamon rolls. Each man would begin the same chore every year! About 1:00 AM, when breakfast was almost ready, all of our children and their friends would invade the house and join in the breakfast. Those were great times!

Some of our group stopped coming and began babysitting their grandchildren (or maybe they think they "aged out"). Our children got married, often going to their own parties but by 1994, they had stopped coming. At any rate, many of us have continued to get together each year, this year making the 20th, we think. We still enjoy laughing, playing games, watching the countdown, and taking just a little champagne. This year, since New Year's Eve is on Sunday and we want everyone to go to church, we have decided to have a dinner meal instead, then enjoy snacks the rest of the evening and early morning. (Our meal will consist of roast beef, beans, potato casserole, 7-layer salad, rolls, chocolate pie and pecan pie.) Don says we are all getting older and probably should go to bed earlier than 3:00 or 4:00 am as we have been doing in the past. I'll let you know how we like this way later. What would be your suggestion: breakfast or dinner?

I hope you have a wonderful New Year.