New Years

[berrymama]

How do you celebrate New Year's Eve and day in a Waldorf way?

[pinkpeone]

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[mommabeehilly]

Originally Posted by pinkpeone

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me too.

[bandtmum]

Just givibg this thread a bump.......someone must have some meaningful new year celebrations planned!

[jkg]

please?? anyone?? :

[berrymama]

Even if your plans are not very Waldorfy...it has to be better than sitting and watching (insert name)'s Rockin New Years Party on TV!

I think we may be gathering supplies to make some bath bombs and then having a nice hot bath! That will be our fizzy bubbles!

[mommabeehilly]

all year round

so i looked up new years in all year round....here are the two ideas that they had

1. new years cranes (make into a mobile)
2. sailing new years boats (walnut shell candle boat, one for each person)..this one is very long and extensive and involves lining a bowl with aluminum foil and putting herbs in the bowl, too complicated for us, but i like the idea, it just needs to be simplified

there also is this weather verse

"if new year's eve night wind blow south
it betokeneth warmth and growth,
if west, much milk and fish in the sea,
if north, much cold and storms there will be.
if east, the trees will bear much fruit
if north east, flee it, man and brute!" (anon.)

peace.

[Adasmommy]

I have no idea what the Waldorf way would be, but dd and I just read a book about how New Years is celebrated in different countries and as a result she has decided to dress up as the snow maiden (a la Russia and somewhere else) at our family's New Years Eve party (which will be a feast and family thing, with probably no one staying until midnight). I don't know any more significance than that--she's going to where something white and we will call her the snow maiden

And the second thing that inspired us in the book was that in Mexico some people make little versions of what they are hoping for in the New Year. So I thought it would be fun to do that. I'm going to make a tiny baby for dd's dollhouse (it will probably be a fairy like all the other dolls), because I really want a life-size one of those! And maybe I'll also make a mini yurt, or cabin, or paint a picture of a country landscape because this is the year I want to switch to country living!

[yukookoo]

we are going to be getting out in nature as much as possible. We are celebrating by taking a nice hike during the day with a friend. Home by dd's bedtime well ok at least in the car on the way home by then.

New years day just try to stay calm and peaceful, some cleaning for the new year and more nature walks.

[audreyhorne]

every new years eve, we write down "wishes" for the new year on a piece of paper, tuck them into our pockets and go for an evening walk, usually with the kids in pajamas, and talk about our wishes and hopes for the new year. when we get home, we light a fire in our firepit outside and sent the wishes "to the stars" as my 6yo likes to say, and then tuck the kiddos into bed. i haven't stayed up til midnight on new years in ages, since my kids get up so early no matter the holiday, so i'll be in bed before the fireworks erupt.

on new years day, we traditionally eat a african-spiced stew of black eyed peas, tomatoes and collards with cornbread for dinner, because they are supposed to bring weath and prosperity, and because hearty collards are one of the few fresh greens we can get around here right now!

happy new year mamas!

[mrsalf97]

audreyhorne, I love that! I had planned on burning things that we need to do away with for the new year.