Happy New Year Moms!
If you are a mom, you probably cannot believe that another holiday season has passed and that you are inching closer and closer to the day that your children no longer “believe.” Isn’t it magical having kids during this time of year? No matter what else is going on in the world, we get to see life through a child’s eyes and be excited and thankful and full of glee.
Are you looking for family-friendly things to do this New Years?
Here are a few suggestions:
Each year First Night Escondido presents an event that celebrates community, the arts, and the New Year with 12 stages of music and dance, the best of restaurant and vendor foods, hands-on art activities, and two dazzling fireworks displays!
FIREWORKS at 9PM and MIDNIGHT!!!
At Legoland’s Family New Year’s Event event midnight strikes at 6 p.m. (12 AM KST—Kid Standard Time)! Like the famous Times Square party, Kids’ New Year’s Eve features a countdown followed by a huge LEGO® brick dropping 22-feet into 2010 and a dazzling fireworks display.
The party begins at 3 p.m. with performances by The Jumpitz™ and Justin Roberts and the Not Ready for Naptime Players. Mini revelers will receive party favors including glow necklaces, fireworks viewing glasses and noisemakers. So get in the Holiday spirit and ring in the New Year at LEGOLAND California.
The New Children’s Museum will host its 2nd annual Jump Party New Year’s Family Celebration & Fundraiser
Friday, January 1 from 12–4pm.
The Cricket Wireless Level will be grooving with a family friendly DJ spinning tunes while you jump in Missing Links, play your favorite gallery games and ring in the new year! Enjoy imaginative and interactive performances with award-winning educational entertainment group, The Jumpitz. Funds raised from this event will help provide free studio art supplies in 2010.
Here’s what we’re doing…jumping in the car tomorrow morning and driving 6 hours to Mammoth Mountain where we’ll rent a house with 2 other families and spend the week frolicking in the snow, ice skating, enjoying their free outdoor concerts, children’s events and fireworks. As soon as she knew it was winter, my 4-year-old started asking when it would snow. She had a hard time accepting that it doesn’t snow in San Diego, so we’re taking care of that with our Mammoth trip.
Now I’ll just have to explain to her that there are no polar bears living in the snow of Mammoth 
Happy New Year!
