Celebrating New Year in the family. New Year's family traditions. "Journey to another country"

I love the tradition of celebrating New Year with my family. After all, with whom you celebrate the holiday, you will spend the year with it. I firmly believe in this sign, so I try to gather family members at the table. I think it strengthens relationships. Unfortunately, the children have already grown up, they have their own affairs, we do not often spend time together. Although we all live in the same apartment, we rarely sit down at the table with the whole family. Therefore, I want to bring everyone together at least on New Year's Eve. The son and daughter, however, sometimes try to resist - they want to celebrate the New Year somewhere in the company, hang out with friends. But my husband and I insist that everyone be at home that night. This gives a feeling of a strong rear. Raising a festive glass of champagne in the circle of your closest people, you understand that you have a home, that there are people who will not leave you in any situation. And you can celebrate with friends the next day - the holidays are long, there is enough time to visit. But on New Year's Eve you need to be at home. With those who are truly close. After all, whatever one may say, this is the most main holiday in a year, and it is necessary to congratulate relatives, and not friends, buddies.

Ivan, 50 years old, driver

On New Year's Eve, you need to be at home with your family. There is nothing to wander the streets. All these folk festivals can be unsafe. In a drunken crowd setting off fireworks, anything can happen. Look, my daughter went to Red Square last year to celebrate the New Year. She really wanted to open champagne to the sound of the Kremlin chimes. So what? The wallet was stolen, she herself caught a cold, she was already at home in the morning, hungry, frozen. Is this a holiday? I am against such gatherings. Better perishing on native couch, with loved ones. And I don't see much reason to visit. You won’t get enough sleep in someone else’s bed, and you won’t get home on New Year’s Eve. Taxi is crazy expensive! Therefore, I believe that the tradition of celebrating the New Year with the family is very correct. First, it's safe. Secondly, the New Year is the longest holiday. It ends in the morning to celebrate. Therefore, in order not to feel constrained in a strange house, it is better to celebrate in your own apartment, with those in front of whom it is not a shame to appear even in a negligee. And then some go to visit, they drink there until the morning, sleep for a couple of hours and, in order not to spend money on a taxi and not to shake with a hangover in the subway, they go home by car. Not only did they not get enough sleep, they also did not sober up properly after the holiday! In general, in my opinion, celebrating the New Year at home is the most practical and safest solution.

Elena, 50 years old, hairdresser

All this talk about " family celebration". For example, my husband and I have been divorced for a long time. My daughter moved to another city a long time ago, she has her own family, her own worries. The parents are dead. Basically, I don't have a family. I can't say that I feel alone. There are friends, there are girlfriends. But before the New Year I always get depressed. Because the idea is constantly being imposed on me that the New Year must be celebrated with the family, otherwise the holiday is not a holiday, and you are kind of flawed. There is no need to discuss it. Let people celebrate the New Year the way they like: who goes to visit, who goes to Red Square to listen to the chimes, who is at home under the Christmas tree. Any method is correct, as long as the person likes it. There is no need to impose any traditions on anyone. This only spoils the mood and the feeling of the holiday disappears.

Valentina, 24 years old, manager

My parents are elderly people. We haven't lived together for a long time. Maybe I would like to celebrate the New Year somewhere in the company or at a party, but I know that my parents are waiting for me to come to them and be with them that night. I think they deserve it. After all, they don’t have many holidays in their lives, and they want to be surrounded by attention on the “biggest night of the year”. This is the most for them main gift. So I try to please them. Be sure to bring grandchildren to them to make a real holiday. No one should feel lonely on New Year's Eve. I know that my parents miss me much more than all my friends-girlfriends combined. My friends will manage without me. In the end, it is not so important for them when exactly we will meet - December 31 or, for example, January 2. And for my parents, the fact that I come to them for the New Year is an indicator of my love for them. They see that I am ready to sacrifice communication with friends and noisy company in order to be with them. It pleases them.

Anton, 40 years old, entrepreneur

My wife and I try to celebrate the New Year anywhere, but not at home. The so-called "family holiday" is a real nightmare. The wife has to cook a lot of food. As a result, when you need to sit down at the table, she is already completely exhausted. She does not celebrate, but she wants to sleep. If we stay at home, some relatives are sure to come to visit us. Parents, mine and hers, will definitely come if we are at home - well, you need to celebrate the New Year in the family. Nothing good comes out of these gatherings. At first, everyone will certainly quarrel, then my folder with the father-in-law gets drunk so that at least take out the saints, and then we all lie down to sleep side by side. In the morning, no one can look at each other anymore, but still, there is nothing to do - you need to continue to celebrate. So, if there is even the slightest opportunity to avoid family gatherings, we will definitely use it. The best thing is to go abroad for all the holidays, so that none of the relatives even think of dropping by to visit us and start a “family holiday”.

Alexey, 21 years old, student

It seems to me that it is not necessary to forcibly gather together the youth and the older generation for the sake of observing some stupid tradition. Well, who will benefit from the fact that I will celebrate the New Year at home? No one! Parents still go to bed immediately after the chiming clock - at their age it is already difficult for them not to sleep at night. And what should I do next? Is it stupid to sit on the couch and quietly watch Blue Light? I can't think of a more boring activity! So it turns out that everyone will suffer. I - pretend that I have a lot of fun sitting at the table with Olivier and herring under a fur coat, and my parents do their best to nod off, but try hard not to fall asleep so that I don’t remain alone at this very table. Nobody needs it. It is much better if everyone congratulates each other on the holiday, and then they will celebrate it as they like. Parents - with a TV and a bowl of Olivier, and I - with friends in a nightclub. This does not mean that my parents and I do not love each other. We just have different interests due to the big difference in age. No one is to blame for this, and we need to treat each other with understanding. Do not force the youth to sit with the older generation and do not torment the older generation with youth entertainment.

The old year ends
Good good year.
We won't be sad
After all, the New one is coming to us ...
Accept wishes,
It's impossible without them
Be healthy and happy!
S, friends!
Congratulations to everyone
Welcome all,
Long live the jokes
Fun and laughter! (with these words, a firecracker shoots)

Holidays are supposed to be fun.
Let the faces bloom with a smile
The songs are upbeat.
Who knows how to have fun
He knows how not to get bored.

Warm up before the competition

(small prizes are awarded for correct answers, for example, sweets, Christmas decorations)

Where do Siberian cats come from? (From South Asia)
It starts with a bird, ends with a beast, what is the name of the city? (Raven hedgehog)
Who has the longest tongue? (At the anteater)
Santa's snitch. (Staff)
An object of artistic creativity of Santa Claus? (Window)
Nickname of Santa Claus? (Frost-Red Nose)
Supposed historical name of Santa Claus? (Nikolai)

Competition "Take a Prize!"

A package with a prize is placed on the chair. Around the chair are the contestants. The host reads the poem "One, two, three!". Those who do not try to grab the prize in a timely manner are eliminated from the competition.

I will tell you a story
In half a dozen phrases.
I'll just say the word "three"
Get your prize now!
Once we caught a pike
Gutted, but inside
Small fish counted
And not one, but TWO.
Dreaming boy hardened
Become an Olympic champion
Look, do not be cunning at the start,
And wait for the command one, two, SEVEN.
When you want to remember poetry
They do not bison until late at night,
And repeat them to yourself
One, another, and better FIVE!
Newly train at the station
I had to wait THREE hours.
But why didn’t you take the prize, friends,
When was the opportunity to take?

Competition "Theatrical"

Wishing contestants are given cards with a task that they perform without preparation. The prize is fruit. You need to walk in front of the tables like:

a woman with heavy bags;
girl in tight skirt high heels;
sentry guarding the food warehouse;
an infant who has just learned to walk;
Alla Pugacheva during the performance of the song.

"Jolly Nonsense"

The host has two sets of strips of paper. In the left hand - questions, in the right - answers. The host goes around the tables, playing alternately "blindly" pull out either the question (read aloud) or the answer. It turns out to be a funny joke.

Sample questions:

Do you read other people's letters?
Are you sleeping well?
Do you listen to other people's conversations?
Do you break dishes out of anger?
Can you put a pig on a buddy?
Do you write anonymously?
Do you spread gossip?
Do you have a habit of promising more than you can?
Would you like to get married?
Are you intrusive and rude in your actions?

Sample answers:

This is my favorite activity;
Occasionally, for fun;
Only in summer nights;
When the wallet is empty;
Only without witnesses;
Only if it is not related to material costs;
Especially in a strange house;
This is my old dream;
No, I am a very shy person;
I never turn down an opportunity like this.

Christmas tree jokes

All participants take off "their" pieces of paper (painted in certain colors) from the Christmas tree. Jokes can be taken as a prediction or as a joke.

Dear parents! Do you want grandchildren?
"To the mother-in-law closer - the stomach is fuller, further from the mother-in-law - love for her is stronger ..."
There can only be 2 opinions in a family: one is the wife, the other is wrong!
Best to give useful gifts. Wife to her husband - handkerchiefs, and he gave her a mink coat.
A compliment doubles a woman's performance.
I will take on not an easy task -
I will spend the family budget economically.
There are no secrets from me in cooking, I will cook both dinner and lunch!
Between worries, between chores.
I will try my best to lie on the couch.
We all, sometimes, go somewhere,
We go, we swim, we fly like birds,
Where there is an unfamiliar shore ...
The road to the border awaits you.
And this month you will devote to art -
Go to the theatre, ballet and opera!
To be a beauty for you tomorrow morning, an asterisk, a berry, a kitty, a fish, but as soon as you give beer, you will become a wife again.

"Candy" on a string

A thread with "sweets" hanging on it is stretched across the whole room. Each blindfolded participant cuts off five candies for himself. If the gifts got "to the wrong address", then it is possible, with the consent of both participants, to exchange.

Should be happy in abundance
From the lottery you now -
Three wonderful postcards
Prolottery for you.
To always be beautiful, hurry up to get the cream.
You listen to the advice: fruits are the best diet.
And here is an elegant, fragrant, delicious, chocolate cheese.
If suddenly the child cries, you must (you must) appease him. With a rattle you will jump and make you shut up.
To always be neat toothpaste hurry to get.
Your winnings are a little original - you got a baby nipple.
If you suddenly ask what year has now come, we will not answer you a word and give you a rooster.
You got the main prize, get and share (chocolate).
Every day you look younger, so you look in the mirror more often.
Never be discouraged with such a companion, and wipe any place with a washcloth in a hot bath.
On the ticket, by chance, you got this tea.
To keep your face and your sock clean, a piece of fragrant soap got on the ticket.
Get a balloon, fly into space to the stars.
You look great: both clothes and hairstyle, and as a reward, your prize did not fall in vain - a comb.
Dishwasher. (mesh for washing dishes)
Mercedes car. (Children's car)
The garbage collector is cotton. (Handkerchief)
Your win is quite rare, you got a spruce branch; she will make you, no doubt, participate in gardening.
Get it, hurry up, you have a notebook: write poetry.

Guess the proverb

The facilitator reads out a simple explanation of the proverb and offers to name it herself.

They don’t discuss a gift, they accept what they give ... (They don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.)
You need to learn throughout your life, every day brings new knowledge, knowledge is endless. (Live and learn!)
If you have started something, bring it to the end, even if it is difficult to do it! (I took hold of the tug, don't say that it's not hefty!)
Trouble, misfortune usually happen where something is unreliable, fragile. (Where it is thin, it breaks there.)
How you treat others is how you will be treated. (As it comes around, it will respond.)
Don't take on things you don't know. (Not knowing the ford, do not poke your head into the water.)

What's this?

The same but with animals.

"Repetition is the mother of learning!" - parrot
"Hold your pocket wider!" - kangaroo
"Tears of sorrow will not help!" - crocodile
"There is safety in numbers!" - locust
"Go toe to toe" - caterpillar

"Field of Dreams"

The facilitator reads the question and names the number of letters in the word. For each word guessed, players receive a prize (a small answer symbol).

Name and surname of an elderly man. Ladies' man, dressed in Winter 2005 fashion (8 letters). Answer: Santa Claus.
A dairy product that maintains the temperature in winter, but is more often consumed in summer (9 letters). Answer: ice cream.
A tree whose absence of leaves speaks of its special purpose (4 letters). Answer: tree.
Fashion model with a blond braid, always participating in winter holidays. Appears always accompanied by an elderly sponsor (10 letters). Answer: Snow Maiden.
The location of the long-awaited joy for people who survived until winter. It has always been a symbol under a tree without leaves (5 letters). Answer: bag.
A liquid that is taken internally with great joy (10 letters). Answer: champagne.

And finally...

A poster is posted with phrases that must be continued. Everyone participates.

Santa Claus would not have a price if ... (he came every day)
That snowdrift is bad, which does not dream of becoming ... (ice cream)
A real tree about an artificial one ... ("Solid silicone, and nothing more.")
If Santa Claus is on fire at work, then ... (it means the Snow Maiden is on maternity leave.)
Do not close your mouth to those who ... (do not deserve this.)
In terms of the amount of paper per capita, we occupy one of the last places in the world and the first ... (in terms of the number of brilliant literary works.)

Evgeniya Trussenkova

Celebrating the New Year at home with your family can be a great opportunity to strengthen family bonds, have fun and enter the new year with loved ones. If you take care of fun, food, drinks, games and entertainment in advance, then you will have a wonderful time.

Steps

Part 1

Drinks and food

Prepare homemade meals. Considering the fact that food delivery goes up in price on New Year's Eve (like other groceries before the holidays), it's a great idea to splurge a little and cook a family dinner. Choose dishes that will appeal to all family members and that you can’t afford every day - steak, barbecue or seafood. Such a family dinner can turn into a New Year's tradition.

Prepare fun appetizers and desserts. Try making cookies, toffees, or other desserts that the whole family can enjoy over New Year's Eve. You can also add New Year's spirit and prepare special New Year's desserts. Many cultures have their own New Year's desserts, like Vasilopita, a Greek New Year's cake that hides a coin in the dough when baked. It is believed that a person who comes across a piece with a coin will be lucky in the coming year.

Prepare festive drinks and non-alcoholic cocktails. All children love hot cocoa, sweet sodas and fruit juice. You can also make other cocktails with strawberries and kiwi, cranberries or peppermint. Be sure to use champagne glasses and other "adult" plastic utensils so that the children celebrate with you. For adults, you can make cocktails or stick classic version with champagne.

Watch movies. Include movies you already have in your collection or find new ones you've been wanting to watch for a long time. Make movies just one of the many entertainments or arrange non-stop watching them. During the movies, you can eat snacks and drink drinks that you have prepared together.

Create New Year's corner for photography. Organize a place in the room where you can take pictures. Choose a wall or corner to use as a backdrop and decorate with ready-made or homemade holiday decorations. Can also print some details fancy dress to get your own photo props.

Put on sophisticated outfits. Invite all family members to wear best clothes to feel like participants in the New Year's ball. You can turn on music, dance and take pictures in irresistible costumes.

Make pouches to keep track of time. Place various goodies and sweets in small bags to open one bag every hour while waiting for midnight. The number of pouches depends on what time you start to open them. You can put the following in them:

Make your own Christmas decorations. Use construction paper, thread, and decorative embellishments to make party hats. Also try to make homemade New Year's rattles by placing in plastic bottles rice, confetti and glitter. Close them with a lid and shake them loudly to greet the arrival of the New Year noisily. Can also be mounted to the ceiling air balloons and let them go when the clock strikes midnight:

Part 3

New Year's Eve

Think back to the past year and make plans for the coming year. Around midnight, or at any other time, get together and remember what happened last year with each of you individually and with the whole family. After that, try to formulate plans for the next year. You can make a plan for the whole family to be responsible for it to each other.

Celebrate the New Year in a different time zone. If there are small children in the family, it will be difficult for them not to fall asleep before midnight. Try celebrating the New Year in a different time zone. For example, depending on your country of residence, you can celebrate the New Year with the French or the Japanese. Thanks to this, small children will be able to celebrate the New Year with you and go to bed earlier.

Sing, toast and celebrate. At midnight, everyone should have a glass in their hands to make a toast, hug and wish each other a happy New Year. After midnight, you can sing your favorite New Year's songs. It is at this point that you should use your homemade rattles and knock on the pans.

Skip the parties you don't want to go to and don't take on unnecessary responsibilities. It is better to leave more time for yourself and your loved ones.
If you decide to order food, then take care of it in advance, as the same thought will come to the mind of a lot of people!
Don't forget about those who are a little bored to spend new Year's Eve in the family. Teenagers and young adults tend to think that by staying at home for the New Year, they are missing out on all the fun. You can ask them about the pleasant moments of the outgoing year and expectations for the next 12 months. This conversation will help you get closer.
Some prefer to watch the time on the TV with the sound turned off so that everyone can see the hands on the clock. You can also use the radio.
You don't have to stay awake until midnight. Surely some family members will not want to party all night! If you are tired and want to go to bed earlier, then this is completely normal. In the morning there will be the same New Year, the meeting of which can be slightly shifted.
You can go outside and set off fireworks if your locality It is allowed. Remember that fireworks can only be set off by adults, and even they should not forget about safety!

Warnings

If you spend the whole evening regretting that you stayed with your family and could have spent much more fun, then it will be difficult for you to feel the moment and appreciate its importance. It will be much easier and more fun for you if you treat this as another great way celebrate New Year. Think about what you managed to avoid - long taxi waits, drunken quarrels, crazy crowds of people who strive to hug everyone in honor of the New Year!
Drink alcohol in moderation.
Be mindful of your neighbors when you turn on the music. Even on New Year's Eve, people have small children and sick relatives.

Family traditions of New Year's Eve

Pochaeva Tatyana Anatolyevna, teacher-psychologist MBDOU " Kindergarten No. 2, Konakovo

The second tradition cooking sweets for the new year with the children. A rare child does not like to work with the test. And although children's cooking is far from perfect, it is exhibited on festive table. In my parental family it was customary to cook dumplings and put a lot of pepper in one of them. It was a "happy" dumpling.

I kept the idea, but instead of dumplings, now we are preparing cookies, inside of which pieces of paper with wishes-predictions are inserted. Of course, only I know about the contents of these notes. The papers are folded and sealed in a piece of foil. Then, while drinking tea, everyone recklessly chooses their “lot”, reads “predictions”.
Here are the wishes-predictions used this year:
Good luck awaits you!
You will have a lot of pleasant troubles.
Business is time, fun is an hour.
Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
If you want to eat kalachi, don't lie on the stove.
IN holidays It doesn't hurt to be careful while driving.
New Year holidays will be full of fun and new acquaintances.
The parents are up to something good.
By the summer you will grow by 7 centimeters.
Laugh carelessly so that happiness lasts forever.
Seven times measure cut once!
Listen to everyone. Ideas come from everywhere.
Focus on family and harmony with the world around you.
Well done is better than well said.
Those who do not expect gratitude will never be disappointed.
Everything that is done is for the best.
Do not look for external enemies: to understand what hinders your development, look inside yourself.
Be attentive to the clues of fate.
Be persistent in the battle with your own selfishness.
When I choose expressions, I think about who it suits. We can say that I even hope that the prediction will become prophetic and the person will change in better side. (“Masking” is rarely possible, but that is why everyone is satisfied, except for me).

Preparing for the carnival- one more new year tradition.
Now it is customary to arrange at school not just a Christmas tree, but a carnival, therefore, a costume is needed. You can buy a costume in a store, or you can sew it yourself, which is much more interesting and useful in every way. The process of preparing the costume includes the child and members of his family, which is very uniting. The child comes up with an image, looks for the necessary accessories, chooses a style, tries on different outfits, enters the role, looks forward to the holiday, which is very good. Children preschool age happy to be part of this process. And although they have few offers of their own, they are happy to dress up and play a role.

Children up to a certain age believe in the real Santa Claus and the Snow Maiden, and we do our best not to destroy their faith in miracles and create surprise moments. This year I recorded a video in which the beautiful Snegurochka (the teacher of our garden) congratulated her grandchildren on the New Year and wished them to grow up to be kind and obedient children. This video message was shown during children's holiday. Somewhat later, when the grandchildren were addicted to the game, the doorbell rang. It turned out that they brought a parcel from "Santa Claus" with a real wax seal and postage stamps. The gift made an impression not only on the children, but also on their parents.
The next tradition is meeting guests in the form of an animal, symbolizing the coming year. So last year I met my grandchildren in a Goat wig, and this year my grandfather put on a Monkey mask and scared someone, whom he made laugh with his antics.
Photographing, of course, is a long-standing family tradition, thanks to which children remember the events of their lives well, and we, adults, fondly remember them when they were small.
Preparation of gifts and souvenirs for all family members is another tradition. Grandchildren prepare gifts for great-grandmothers and great-grandfathers, for grandparents with their own hands under the guidance of their parents. For this, various creative sets are used, the choice of which is unusually wide. The idea is put into the minds of children that a gift made with their own hands will please their relatives much more than one bought with parental money. All other family members exchange traditional gifts. And we prefer to give children impressions, namely: tickets to the theater, to the Christmas tree, a trip to Moscow, a trip, etc.
We exchange gifts after game program to keep the intrigue and keep the children's attention.
By the way, this year I immediately announced that the gifts from under the Christmas tree had disappeared, but there is a chance to find them if you fulfill all the requirements of the evil trolls. The grandchildren did not find out where the trolls came from in the city apartment, but immediately began to search. (By the way, not only gifts were lost, but also some of my notes - assignments and even one prediction from cookies, which is still impossible to explain logically, as if the trolls are to blame!)
I don’t want to make a festive feast the main event of a family holiday, although I love to cook, and my guests love to feast. Since we, Russians, are distinguished by hospitality and hospitality, I believe that our grandchildren will easily accept these traditions, and I would like to instill in the rest of them.

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New Year is a family holiday and each family has its own rituals that make it special. They create a mood and truly unite us.

Today website collected stories about the traditions that fill the holiday with miracles of comfort and warmth.

On the last Saturday before the New Year, dad always goes to get the Christmas tree, and we all wait for him and unpack the toys that have been languishing on the mezzanine all year.
When everyone gathers at the New Year's table, we always say some kind of compliment to each other. Last year, the most original of them was from my sister: she said that I have the most beautiful ears in the family.
And here it is customary for us: who does not cook Olivier, he does not eat it. Therefore, on December 31, the whole family spends in the kitchen in unison, cuts salads and immediately eats half.
Every year we buy new Christmas ball. The oldest has survived 54 Christmas trees - it was bought by grandfather in the first year after the wedding with his grandmother.
On New Year's Eve we make dumplings. Everytime. Hundred. Three generations. And, when someone starts to grumble, they say, it is much easier to buy them, the grandmother says that the soul of the holiday is in dumplings. And you can't buy a soul.
We have such a tradition: on pieces of paper, everyone writes some kind of prediction - for example, “there will be a big purchase” or “you will learn something unexpected about your soul mate”, - then the pieces of paper are folded and put in a box. Everyone takes turns pulling out, everyone looks at what they got, folds again, writes their name. They put it back into this magic box, and a year later they pull it out and check whether it came true or not. And you know what? Almost everything comes true.

As a child, every year my mother collected sweet gifts with all sorts of goodies for my brother and me. We have not lived with our parents for a long time. Recently, my mother called and said that gifts were waiting for us under their Christmas tree. And at the age of 26 I rushed to pick up a bag of sweets.
We live in a small town and we always try to visit all our friends on New Year's Eve - at least for a couple of minutes to drop by and congratulate. So no one feels lonely on holiday.
When I was little, every year my mother and I made one toy for the Christmas tree with our own hands. IN adolescence I thought: “Well, what kind of nonsense is this, why does she hang them all the time, it would be better if they bought normal balls.” And yesterday, together with my three-year-old son, for the first time we made a toy for our Christmas tree, and this little clumsy sheep made of cones and colored paper seems to me the most beautiful toy in the world.
Probably funny, but we still review The Irony of Fate every year. Without it, the New Year is not new at all.
And we do not buy a live Christmas tree for the New Year - we put an artificial one. We have a big one, and dad always collects it. And the youngest member of the family, my nephew, hangs the first toy. Dad picks him up and he puts a golden star on the top of the tree.
I don’t know where it came from, but we do this: you throw a piece of chocolate into a New Year’s glass of champagne and look. If he surfaced, the year will be good, if he drowned - so-so. So, if you throw a not very large and fairly flat piece - in any case, wait for a good year. No surprises. Checked.
Three weeks before the holiday, we begin to do a countdown - we hang a special calendar on the refrigerator, which says "There are ... days left before the New Year." You really feel like you're getting closer to him.

We in the family always set fire to a piece of paper with a desire to the chimes, fill the ashes with champagne and drink. This year, for the first time, he brought my girlfriend to celebrate with us. She looked at us big eyes and then she told me that, in fact, you can make a wish without burnt pulp. In general, you will have to somehow instill in her a love of romance.
We send to friends and family New Year cards. Everyone says: Internet, telephone, why is it needed at all? But the sensations from a “live”, real postcard are not at all the same as from a picture on the Internet. You take it out of the mailbox, read the wishes written by hand, and as if you feel a little warmer.
I always celebrate the New Year in the family. Friends, colleagues - it's all before or after. But on the night of the 1st - only at home. Olivier, tangerines and, of course, my mother's signature raspberry pie.
We have a special New Year's service - large, elegant, very beautiful. For me, it symbolizes the holiday better than all Christmas trees and salads.
Since we started our little family, we have been celebrating with my husband and cat. But the next day we will definitely go to our parents for last year's salads, I call this "for the finishers." And the husband says that we are with him - annoying and we need to give our parents a good night's sleep. But, no, no, I will not cancel this tradition for anything.
Every year we arrange a family New Year's photo shoot - we get together, take pictures near the Christmas tree. I've already got a whole album: it's interesting to see how everyone changes, but still stay together.
When the tree is decorated, we gather around it with the whole family, we say “Christmas tree, burn!” and turn on the garland. From now on, we are ready to celebrate the New Year.