New Year is a family holiday

We are appealing to those people who managed toto preserve the bright Soviet traditions of the New Year holidays, did not throw out the Christmas decorations of their great-grandmothers, love the "Irony of Fate", live Christmas trees and gladly eat olive and herring under a fur coat. Come, dear friends, we are very glad to see you. Actually, we'll start with this.

Who is invited to visit the New Year?

In your wonderful situation - no one at onceall. Adult children, their friends, your friends, distant relatives and close neighbors - all these people can be at your festive table. As the long-term national experience shows, there are no hungry and underdogs at such feasts. The glory of United Russia, with empty counters in our country is over, and throwing money at the end of the year is your favorite Russian national game.

However, we will try to give you an unobtrusive advice: do not invite anyone to visit, but do not deny it to anyone. Keep the intrigue, just doing a thorough preparation for the meeting with Santa Claus. On the aura of your good mood, cozy home, abundant treats, even on telephone and computer networks, like a moth, everyone who is dear to you and who is close to you will fly to the last bulb that has survived in the house.

And unexpected guests at the most inopportune time - this is also a worthy compensation for the gray routine and all your preparations. At least, it will be something to remember in old age.

Friendly preparation for the holiday strengthens the family

Another commonplace, easy to destroyselfishness and nihilism. Family meeting of the New Year implies the simultaneous presence in a limited area of ​​several generations, different in social status, interests and moods of people, a mixture of genres and characters. Therefore, prepare for the holiday is better separated.

In large families that have become the samerare, like the Amur tigers, these same tigers, i.e. men, best of all, send for prey. And not just once: bread is forgotten, mayonnaise is not enough, greens and fruits are needed. Or even good in the woods behind the tree. The boys will spend the day in the fresh frosty air, drink a beer, take a positive charge, and the girls set salads and sandwiches with caviar under a glass of liqueur and tare bars.

Even better for middle-aged people who have grown uptheir children before the age of departure from their native nest (for the inexperienced we explain: living separately), but not having lost a mental connection with them (we do not explain). It is clear that at the most unexpected moment of the New Year's festivities they, perhaps with their grandchildren, will come to their father's house. But this knowledge does not detract from the older generation all the charm of preparing for the holiday.

Gifts already purchased, for young childrensurprises are prepared, the Christmas tree and the apartment are partially decorated, there is a thorough culinary preparation. The quietest, cozy, homely time, when there is no place to hurry and the soul joyfully freezes in a body tired for the year. So, the scenario of New Year's Eve meeting with comments.

Two in the kitchen, not counting the dog

Approximately so you can determine the ideal plot of preparation for the holiday. Young families can change the dog to their beloved little child, but this replacement will be clearly unequal.

31 December, 12 noon. You slept wonderfully, on the stove fragrantlypuff pots with potatoes, beetroot and tongues of Komodor lambs. Your clumsy flies so ridiculously cuts herring and cuts cucumbers that you forgive him all the sins in a year. Even his stretched training pants, elegantly indicating signs of uncharacteristic pregnancy, do not cause you the same annoyance. The holiday begins!

When from the invariably droning TV in the kitchenIvan Vasilyevich will confirm to you that this is a "lepota," and the dear Kostik, leaning out of the Pokrovsky Gate, will propose personally to you to "slap on a rumashka", consider that you have already started seeing off the Old Year. Guests! When they still will be. And on the table there are so many delicacies and still unfinished salads. Two glasses of cognac for all the good and universal happiness will charge you with a positive for the whole long New Year's Eve and, perhaps, for the next few days.

31th of December. 16 hours. Everything is almost ready, you can climb into the bathor even sleep a couple of hours. Istoma and relaxation ... A wonderful time of nostalgia confusion. But soon to be painted, decorated, dressed, smiling.

31th of December. Evening. Visitors can take the finaldecorating rooms, installing and serving a table, camouflaging children's gifts and drawing wall newspapers. They are already pretty for you. Visible traces of a long road, disputes about gifts and clothes, the irritation that has not been removed so far, causes compassion. Lovely, good, exhausted people. How good that they came. Then you all passed.

What happens after the battle of the chimes, no one knows. But you already got your piece of harmony with the surrounding world. Let the young people call it a routine, the old people will complain that in their time they walked, so they walked, family traditions are needed by everyone. So you did everything you could!

Author: Katerina Sergeenko