New year’s eve celebrations around the world traditionally include dinner parties, firework shows, singing songs, watching Dick Clark’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest on ABC, plus the New Year’s kiss at the stroke of midnight. Year’s ago, celebrating New Year’s Eve may have meant getting all dressed up and heading out to a number of New Year’s Eve parties, but this year we’ll celebrate the holiday at home.

In year’s past, looking for things to do on New Year’s Eve was fun and exciting. Maybe we’ve just gotten too old for extravagant parties where everyone is drinking to excess and then stupidly driving while they are clearly intoxicated.

We will still prepare a New Year’s Eve dinner with all the traditional fixings, but to tell you the truth, I do not like black-eyed peas so we’re going to have to come up with a new recipe if I am going to eat any of those.

While many people will be out and about town searching for things to do and places to go watch fireworks, we’ll be content to celebrate the ringing in of the New Year at home, safe and sound. In previous years, we’ve managed to stay awake long enough for the traditional ball dropping in Times Square to finish, but we’re on a different time zone than NY so we’ll share a kiss and go to sleep earlier than most.

New Year’s Eve songs like the traditional Auld Lang Syne will be sung in celebration of the new year. Until recently I didn’t know that the song is a Scottish poem written by Robert Burns and when translated into English literally means “old long since”, “long long ago” or “days gone by”. I’m trying to memorize the Auld Lang Syne lyrics and maybe just maybe actually learn the lyrics by heart and not forget them again. My memory must be slipping!

Popular New Year’s Eve Songs

• Auld Lang Syne

• Let’s Start the Year Right

• It Was a Very Good Year

• It’s Just Another New Year’s Eve

• What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?

• Same Old Lang Syne

• Happy New Year

• The New Year

• A Long December

• New Year’s Eve by The Walkmen

• New Year’s Day by U2

• What a Wonderful World

Auld Lang Syne Video Song

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Happy New Year to you and yours! I’ll be busy downloading my favorite versions of these songs New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day for sure, since there are so many different singers and performers.

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Good Lord, what is the world coming to? The Poll Dancing Doll must be someone’s idea of a joke, but presenting a pole dancer doll as a “cool gadget” is simply disgusting!

Maybe this pole dancing doll is where Miley Cyrus got the stupid idea from when she recently did her own pole dancing bit that had parents upset.

Seriously, a Poll Dancing Doll? For who? Kids? I think not!

The Pole Dancing Doll is described this way: “It rotates. It has blinking lights, a disco ball, and a pole. And it’s probably one of the wrongest toys you can give to any girl.”

The only thing this poll dancer doll is missing is a place to insert dollar bills, but you can bet the doll maker will be sure to include that feature in upcoming upgrades for the poll dancer. Doll? No way!

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“Even if the Pole Dance doll turns out to be fake, the real problem is how easy it is to believe that it’s real. So when anyone says that the pole that Miley and Noah danced around was not a stripper pole, they’re wrong. It was”, says Parent Dish.

There is an epidemic in our society called the Sexualization of Children and “toys” such as this pole dancing doll is just one more gross form of product placement for young children if there ever were one.

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Being a grandma allows me to enjoy all the wonderful Grandma and Grandpa quotes and old sayings that didn’t have any real meaning to me until I became a Grandma. My favorite Grandma quote so far is, “What goes on at Grandma’s house stays at Grandma’s house”, and boy oh boy ain’t that the truth!

Enjoy this list of some of my favorite grandma sayings and quotes for and about grandparents and grandchildren that always bring a smile to my face. I’ll also include a few grandpa quotes too, since what happens at grandpa’s house should stay at grandpa’s house too, don’t cha think? Grandparenting has GOT to be a pat-on-the-back from Heaven above because of all our hard work while raising our own children.

Here is what I believe to be some of the best grandparents quotes and old sayings for us all to enjoy. Feel free to comment and leave one of your own favorite Grandma or Grandpa quotes or sayings as well.

Top 12 Grandma Quotes:

• Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you’re just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric. — Pam Brown

• Grandmother – a wonderful mother with lots of practice. –Author Unknown

• If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should advise every one of you straight away to become one. There is no fun for old people like it! –Hannah Whithall Smith

• Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting. –Author Unknown

• Grandmothers are just “antique” little girls. –Author Unknown

• Grandmas never run out of hugs or cookies. –Author Unknown

• Grandmas hold our tiny hands for just a little while, but our hearts forever. –Author Unknown

• A grandmother is a babysitter who watches the kids instead of the television. –Author Unknown

• If your baby is “beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time,” you’re the grandma. –Teresa Bloomingdale

• Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day and now the day was complete. –Marcy DeMaree

• If God had intended us to follow recipes, He wouldn’t have given us grandmothers.–Linda Henley

• My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty.  She’s ninety-seven now, and we don’t know where the hell she is. - Ellen DeGeneres

Top 12 Grandpa Quotes:

1. Grandchildren don’t stay young forever, which is good because Grandfathers have only so many horsey rides in them. –Gene Perret
2. One of the most powerful handclasps is that of a new grandbaby around the finger of a grandfather. –Joy Hargrove
3. Grandchildren don’t make a man feel old; it’s the knowledge that he’s married to a grandmother. –G. Norman Collie
4. A grandfather is someone with silver in his hair and gold in his heart. –Author Unknown
5. The best place to be when you’re sad is grandpas lap. –Author Unknown
6. There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. –Victor Hugo
7. Great fathers get promoted to grandfathers. –Author Unknown
8. A grandpa is someone you never outgrow your need for.. –Author Unknown
9. By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.–Charles Wadsworth
10. You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.–Irish Proverb
11. The reason grandchildren and grandparents get along so well is that they have a common enemy. - Sam Levenson
12. My grandkids believe I’m the oldest thing in the world.  And after two or three hours with them, I believe it, too. - Gene Perret

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