Our Family’s New Year’s Eve Traditions

Our family has several New Year’s Eve traditions that we try to do every year. From the start of the day…until after midnight we’re busy!

Typically we like to enjoy a special breakfast at home that my husband cooks consisting of Eggs Benedict, Hash Browns and Canadian Bacon. He’s made the breakfast for the past 30+ years and serves it with hand-squeezed orange juice.

Around lunch time we head out to the fish & seafood market to pick up our order. Every year we place an order for shrimp, crab legs and 2 large lobster tails. We go to the grocery store to pick up additional goodies like potato salad, pickled eggs, etc. Once we get home he gets busy in the kitchen steaming up the shrimp, crab legs and lobster tails with some Old Bay Seasoning. He’s a fantastic cook when it comes to fish & seafood!

Around 5 PM or so we sit down and enjoy his seafood creations along with a glass of wine or two. We will eat and eat and eat…until our bellies can’t hold anymore seafood! We then “veg out” for an hour or two to recover.

If the weather is decent we will go down to Hershey or into Harrisburg to see the fireworks and to participate in New Year’s Eve festivities. If its too cold, snowy or icy…we stay home.

Celebrating at home on the bad weather days is fun too! We will typically hang out in our game room playing air hockey, pinball and video games and watch the ball drop on TV. Oh yeah…we’ll snack on more seafood too!

So let’s hear it…do you have any New Year’s Eve traditions? If so, tell us all about them in our blog’s comment form below. Happy New Year’s Eve!