My 8-year old has always said "I want to stay up for New Year's." Two years ago, she almost made it. Last year, she didn't even last until 10pm. Last night, we made it. All three of us made it until midnight! We had a fun night of board games, video games and watching the ball drop.
We started out the night with some dinner (turkey sandwiches) and some snacks (chips, dip, cheese and crackers).
Next, we finally broke out Fibber. Let me tell you...that is a VERY fun game that I'll have to review soon!
We played Fibber for about 2 hours (seriously, no one wanted to stop playing it)! Then, we moved into the Xbox Kinect and we enjoyed some Kinect Adventures and Just Dance 4. Even her dad got up and danced (boy was that a sight to see)!
When all was said and done, we hit the New Year's Eve show just in time to watch Taylor Swift sing a couple of songs and watch the ball drop.
Surprisingly, we had to practically drag Sarah to bed because she learned that Justin Bieber would be singing later that night, but we were all SO tired! We compromised and decide to record Justin Bieber, which I'm sure she'll be up watching first thing in the morning.
Sarah looked up at me with those sleepy eyes at like 12:35 and says "Best day ever. I wish we could do this every night." This mom is glad we only get to do it once a year!
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