Tell me about your best NYE celebrations?

[AliBaby]

I dont think I have celebrated NYE in about 4 or 5 years and this year I am going to! My prob has always been I think about it to late and by then I just cant be bothered organising something so I am preparing early!

What I really want to know is how people with children have celebrated NYE?

ie. Party at your house or a friends house, fireworks, out to dinner somewhere,etc?

If you went to a house party or had a house party what made it memorable?

What worked? What didn't?

Just feel free to share anything...even your plans for this year!

[Party-of-five]

its my birthday my 30th!!!
we are having a kid friendly party at home as I know its hard finding a babysitter on NYE.

[Trillian]

Since all our circle has kids now it's always a BBQ at someone's house. But years ago when we'd only started having kids we would always go up to Lake Cargelligo water skiing for a few days, we'd rent a cabin at the caravan park and put the kids to bed early and have a BBQ and drinks.

[Beach Mama]

We have it at home and a few years ago we had a dress up theme - letter P!!! This year we will be home as well, too hard with kids to do much of anything else and that way nobody has to drive and kids are in bed!!

[Enchanted]

We usually head to a friends who live around 15 mins away, they're on the waterfront so we get to see all the gorgeous fireworks across the bay. There is plenty of beds for the kids and us should we decide to stay.

[luna moth]

We can see the fireworks from our front door, and our baby will be very tiny, so I think we might just sit on our outdoor couch and watch them and have some newborn snuggles together.

[barney]

well this year im very excited about the hole thing as its our first with baby charlie not that she will last the night but knowing me ill count down till new years get all teary like i always do lol.so i rekon just a bbq that afternoon with some drinkkies of course and let the kids have some sparklers ans party food.
its also my birthday on the 1st and my dd on the 31st dec so its a bit spaesh for us.

[barney]

We can see the fireworks from our front door, and our baby will be very tiny, so I think we might just sit on our outdoor couch and watch them and have some newborn snuggles together.

aww hun what a beautiful xmas and new year you will have with your new special bubba.yay for you i hope its wonderful

[toomanyshoes]

My most memorable was seeing in 2000, but I wasn't with DH at that stage so we just wont tell him!

DH and I have a shocking history when it comes to NYE celebrations, but last year was ok even though mum and I were up at some ungodly hour of the morning cleaning up DH's vomit. Other than him drinking too much it was a good night, from mum's apartment in Sydney you can see all the way from the harbour bridge on the right to the airport on the left. There was around a dozen different sets of fireworks we could see from her balcony, kids loved it. Got the kids some sparklers and a heap of glow sticks and turned the lights down.

Our last NYE in Brisbane we took the kids to the early fire works at southbank, which was ok but SO SO many people.

I don't know what it is with NYE but something always seems to go wrong, hospital trips, arguments, someone drinks too much (well DH, not me), spats with his family when we've gone over there...I kind of dread it now but hopefully this year will be better.

Personally I'm not a fan of going out on NYE with little kids, maybe earlier in the night but I really don't like being "out and about" after about 10pm, too many idiots around at that stage.