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New Beginnings, the Baby New Year and Baby Shower Parties
The New Year is an exciting time – especially if you are expecting a new baby! We all make resolutions for the year ahead and the New Year is a blank page on which we can organise our lives, assess the past and look forwards to new beginnings.
This isn’t a modern phenomenon. In Boa Island in County Fermanagh there are two ancient statues. What’s strange about these carved figures is that they both have 2 heads, one facing forwards and one facing back. January takes its name from the Roman god Janus, who had two faces and represented the future and the past. It seems our Irish ancestors had a similar mythology!
Nowadays the Baby New Year represents the New Year ahead and you’ll see images of the baby on vintage postcards and magazines from around 1900 onwards. The Saturday Evening Post has some gorgeous Baby New Year pictures that they used every New Year issue.
Of course there are real New Year babies too! Having a baby born on New Year’s Day is really special – and what a wonderful way to welcome in the year ahead!
There are even Baby Shower parties that have a New Year theme with cakes in the shape of clocks. Baby shower party supplies for the theme can include streamers and bunting, party poppers, balloons and glow sticks. Pink Champagne truffles and Mock Pink Champagne finish off the theme!
If you’d like to try making Mock Pink Champagne here is the recipe:
2 lire bottle of ginger ale
1/2 carton of white grape juice
1/2 carton of cranberry or pomegranate juice
Happy New Year!
