New Years Eve Party for Kids

All my life I have been waiting for that perfect New Year's Eve kiss that you see and hear about in movies.  Every year I stay home and watch movies with my family and pig out on junk food.  Well I got tired of watching New Year's Eve Parties on TV and decided to throw one of my own with my two favorite boys.  James is 7 and Caleb, my grandson is 3.



I found my inspiration at the thrift-store for the entire night, we would dress up 1940's style.  I purchased the perfect dress for $7.00, a 1970 formal.  

 

 I found all the table decorations at the Dollar Tree and copied a place setting from Pinterest, except for the glasses napkin holder, that was a last minute touch.  James wanted pizza and chocolate covered strawberries (his 2 favorite foods).  To drink we had champagne glasses filled with cotton candy and poured sprite over the top.  The boys were enthralled as the sprite fizzed upon contact with the cotton candy.  I imagined the concoction to be super sweet but it was the perfect balance and rather splendid!!  We had a dance and I spent half an hour blowing up balloons but it was fun to turn down the lights and dance with the balloons on the dance floor.

A cute story about James, he loves to have a beautifully set table and he insists on setting it himself which always includes candles.  He learned this skill from my beautiful friend Baraba Palfreyman who has gourmet dinners and elaborate table settings.  We get invited over to her house quite often and as Barbara cook's her husband Terry will set the table.  Ever since we that first dinner, James has become our table-setter at home.

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We had so much fun together, that this has definitely become a NEW Family Tradition!!

p.s.  I did get that perfect New Years Eve kiss...LOL a  Hershey's kiss