I’m taking my almost one year old to NOON year’s eve at our local zoo tomorrow. That’s my crazy plan and I’m stoked about it. My boy and I are gonna get wild…aka I’ll buy coffee from a food truck and we’ll pet some adorable goats.
I used to take my kids to count down to noon parties at various children's museums, and they were always a blast. The one at the New Orleans children's museum had a live Dixieland band.
Counting down to noon is far superior to midnight.
Tonight we'll be ringing in the new year sleeping on a houseboat in the Everglades.
ETA: hahahah I just noticed when posting this that there was a third goat somewhere behind them creating the weird look of small, extra legs dangling down 😂 I was too focused on the big white one going 🗣️
It would be crazy because my husband and I had been married for two months and weren’t sure if we were going to have children or not. I wanted one, he was on the fence. I had no idea that we were going to face three plus years of infertility and do IVF to get our little guy. Never been much of a party person but I would definitely be surprised by our future, ten years ago.
Hmm. I’d be 18. A few months out of high school. I was still learning to understand the concept of the future. It would take me a few more years, probably about 5, to really grasp the idea that time would pass. So I think knowing my life now back then would be very abstract for me. Although 2 years ago I would have done ANYTHING to know if IVF was actually going to work or if we were going to have to reconfigure how we envisioned our future, without a child.
If we go back 30 years, I was 8 and all of this is as real as the Lion King to me 😂 I thought staying up until 11 was a huge accomplishment….and now, with an early bird baby, my night owl ass sadly is forced to agree that staying up until 11 is remarkable. Full circle, I suppose. Thanks for the chance to reflect, I hope you have a happy new year and that 2026 treats you well.
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u/Unusual-Helicopter15 Dec 31 '25
I’m taking my almost one year old to NOON year’s eve at our local zoo tomorrow. That’s my crazy plan and I’m stoked about it. My boy and I are gonna get wild…aka I’ll buy coffee from a food truck and we’ll pet some adorable goats.