An hour before the arrival of the guests, many housewives rush around the house shouting “I’m not doing anything!”. At this time, something hisses in a frying pan, boils in a saucepan, and an iron is turned on in the bedroom ... This is a familiar picture, isn't it?
Unfortunately, in a rare family they teach the correct preparation for the holiday. Therefore, it is better to apply for practical advice to extraneous sources. Foreign recommendations boil down either to the organization of social events, or to gatherings in a cafe, which is very difficult to implement in an ordinary family in our country. The following tips take into account the traditions of hospitality that have developed in the post-Soviet space.
Selection of invitees
The size of the apartment is always limited. It is almost impossible to invite everyone to a holiday. And if earlier it was customary to call relatives, nowadays many people want to invite friends and good acquaintances. How do you make a list of invitees? First of all, you should adequately assess your capabilities: the number of seats, living room area, financial capabilities.If you cannot ignore the relatives, then you can accept one of three options:
- Invite friends separately - on the same day, but at a different time, or on the next weekend following the holiday.
- Try to accommodate everyone, taking care of additional seats at the table. You can always look after a folding table or chair, ask temporarily from neighbors or friends.
- Draw up a "schedule" according to which the meetings will alternate. For example, birthdays and New Year celebrate with relatives, and - with friends.
Invitation
In most cases, a phone call or a verbal invitation is sufficient. Sometimes you can trust the paper to create a unique invitation. It is very important to announce the time and place of the holiday in advance. Some people may give their consent at the very last moment, but this is not a reason to invite everyone else the day before the event. It is better to inform guests about the time and place of collection in 1-2 weeks.Menu compilation
Complementarity of dishes. For example, light vegetable salads are perfect for pilaf, and mashed potatoes are combined with almost any side dish. It is advisable to present both meat and vegetable dishes on the table. Some families try so zealously to show the "richness of the table" that they dismiss vegetable dishes as too "simple." But this move prevents guests from switching to light snacks after a fatty piece of meat or fish, reducing their appeal. In addition to mayonnaise, there are many other salad dressings that allow you to fully appreciate the taste of each ingredient. So make your menu carefully. Company preferences. As a rule, men choose meat dishes for appetizers, so cutlets can disappear from plates very quickly. Women may prefer flaky salads, baked vegetables, and stuffed tartlets. It is better to find out in advance about the tastes of each invitee. Otherwise, it may turn out that none of the dishes on the table are suitable for a vegetarian or a raw foodist.
Opportunities of the hostess. If finances are very limited, and relatives have kindly sent gifts from the village, then it would not hurt to study the available set of products. It is always easier to buy 1-2 ingredients and make a dish based on the available products than to spend money on a long one.
Cooking time. When all salads should be prepared just before serving, is it any wonder that there is no free minute for yourself? We recommend the readers of MirSovetov to add several dishes to the festive menu that can be made the day before. It could be a puff salad. There are many recipes in which the preparations are made in advance, freeing up additional time before the arrival of guests.
Selection of alcoholic beverages. The variety of alcohol on store shelves presents a difficult choice on the eve of the holiday. You can conduct a mini-survey among the invitees on the topic "Your favorite drink" or, at your own risk, take wine (vermouth, martini) for women and vodka (cognac, beer) for men.
"Evening program"
In a sincere company, it is sometimes nice to just talk. But it is never known whether awkward pauses and prolonged minutes of silence will form. It is best to prepare 2-3 contests in which all invitees will participate:- playing "Crocodile" when one person shows an object or an animal with gestures, while others guess;
- humorous questionnaires when a joking answer is given to a joke question (taken out of the box in no particular order);
- forfeits when the participant performs what is written on a piece of paper.
Shopping in the store
There are many products with a long shelf life. It is better not to leave purchases for the last day, but to purchase at least something in advance. Such foresight will allow to reduce financial expenses on the eve of the holiday. Plus, a smaller shopping list will keep you from missing out on anything. Mayonnaise, canned food, vegetables, meat and fish can be bought 2-3 weeks before the holiday. Greens, eggs, dairy products, wafer cakes, some types of fruits - in a couple of days. But bread, cake, delicate varieties of fruit - on the day of the celebration or the day before.Action plan
Decide in advance what you will do 2 days before the holiday. Various contests should be fully prepared in advance so that you do not have to carve out a couple of minutes at a time when guests are practically on the doorstep. The same applies to order: it is much better to put all things in their places in advance, leaving only small preparations for later. Putting things in order and can be entrusted to household members. It is better to boil vegetables for salads in the evening, in time for the morning they will completely cool down. Prepare clothes for each member of the family so that you do not have to be distracted at the last moment in search of a clean outfit. On the morning of a holiday, you should have clothes prepared, put in order, boiled vegetables for salads, made several preparations and 1-3 dishes, defrosted meat and (or) fish. It's time to go to the store for the remaining products from the list. Then - taking a shower to invigorate, styling your hair. After all this, you can start preparing some dishes.
It's time to get distracted at lunchtime to put on makeup. decorative cosmetics... To avoid excesses, the onion should already be chopped for each dish. One of the households can do the dishes (or do it in between cutting salads).
It is recommended to change clothes an hour before the arrival of guests (in the kitchen, you should wear an apron) and check the integrity of your makeup and hairstyle. It's time for hot meals and sandwiches. If you have compiled the menu correctly, then at this time something can simmer in the oven, fry in a pan and boil in a saucepan. In this case, all salads must be ready, and the cold cuts must be cooked on a platter. Usually, with careful planning, there can be extra time left for decorating salads with herbs or carved figurines from vegetables.
End of the holiday
At that moment, when the guests begin to "wander" around the apartment, to have "intimate conversations" and languidly poke around in the plates, it is time to move on to the cake. However, if the hands of the clock are steadily showing late night, then the roaming company should also be “pacified” by serving sweets on the table. The cake symbolizes the end of the evening, smoothly rounds off the communication and hints about the need to go home. You can announce the "last drink for the road" or just thank everyone for a wonderful evening. Rarely does anyone ignore such a clear hint and stay at the table when the others leave.If you still have energy, you can wash some of the dishes in the evening. But it would be logical to leave all the plates until the morning, going to the shower to wash away the fatigue holiday... The most important thing is to hide leftover food in the refrigerator so that you don't have to throw away sour food in the morning.
I think every woman who at least once organized family celebration, made up certain lists for this event. We make lists just before important events in our life: who, for example, did not write a set of dowries for a baby before childbirth, or lists of guests and to-do before the wedding. Without this, preparation for the holiday will be complicated.
And, although each of us understands the invaluable help that such records provide us, we nevertheless often neglect them, forget, are lazy - and as a result we get tired, do not have time and are disappointed.The next time it’s not so pleasant to start an event, it seems like unnecessary stress. What problems do magic organizer lists solve, and what opportunities do they provide?
Preparation for the holiday. Unloading the head and relieving stress
They wrote it down - and you can no longer keep the information in your head, not worry, not be afraid to forget. Preparation for the holiday should begin with this. The head is free to generate new ideas and to implement plans.You can do things that are not related to the holiday - after all, they are always there. Do not strain yourself thinking that there are too many things to do, or, on the contrary, you have not thought of something, have not taken into account - after all, you can see everything on paper.
We visually remember and structure
I happened to write a shopping list but forget it at home. So - even in this case, my purchases were successful, among them there was no superfluous or forgotten. And all because, writing down, I turn on my visual memory. And when I try to remember, it is not an abstract idea of my plans that rises in front of me, but the moment when I wrote them down, appearance this entry. In this case, the preparation for the holiday for me was more relaxed.
If someone wrote cheat sheets before the session, he remembers how much these notes helped in preparation - to such an extent that they no longer had to be used.
By writing down, we create a sequence for the execution of our plans, so on occasion it is easy for us to reproduce it in our head. And if the parents of the invited children ask us about how the holiday will be held, it will not be difficult for us to initiate them into this, we will not have to crumple, we can clearly ask for help if it is needed.
We fantasize and dream
Without original ideas preparation for the holiday is not possible. We wrote down an idea, a dream of a child or our own, an idea of crafts for the holiday, drew a type of costume - you can immediately think about how this will be realized. Write a list next to it necessary materials, products for an interesting dish, approximate costs, books or articles in which one could read about it.
Some ideas give impetus to other creative ideas and fantasies. Perhaps, within the framework of one event, all of you will not be in time, but there will be others! And the list of ideas will remain, you can always refer to it.
Preparation for the holiday. It is important to calculate our strength
From the visual diagram of your ideas and plans, you can always choose as many as you have enough. See how much time it takes for cleaning, shopping, joint crafts, script development, table preparation.
Very often, preparing for the holiday takes a lot of time and effort. And we forget about ourselves. Do not do unnecessary things by taking care of yourself and preparing a festive costume - there will be little satisfaction from such self-sacrifice.
The lists we need:
At the very beginning, we lay out four leaves in front of us, which we will call as follows:
- List of ideas;
- Guest list;
- To-do list;
- Shopping list.
It will be more rational and successful if we start filling out the lists as the items appear in our head. In the future, you will have separate entries for crafts and a script. The shopping list will be divided into purchases for the table and purchases for the game part. Part of the list of ideas will move to DOES, and the other part will wait for better times for implementation.
The guest list is usually also always revised. It is useful to supplement the to-do list with the approximate execution time, otherwise it may turn out that all the most difficult will remain at the last moment.
It is better to make non-food purchases separately from food and a little earlier - in order to enjoy shopping and be able to look for the accessories, prizes and gifts we need. Thus, we will approach the last preparations fully armed, and everything will definitely work out!
Let the preparation for the holiday, like the holiday itself, bring you only joy and good mood!
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If in a dream you are joyfully and animatedly preparing for the holiday - this is an unexpected receipt of a lot of money. Inviting many guests to a family holiday portends confusion and disagreement on fundamental issues.
To spend all the holidays at a party - in reality you will be provided with a service that will cost you dearly. If, in the midst of a holiday, they spoiled your mood so that they even brought you to tears, this is an annoying loss and an unpleasant showdown.
Dancing and having fun on the holiday until you drop is a turnaround in your heart's affairs. A holiday darkened by a drunken brawl portends trouble at work.
A dream in which you celebrate Christmas or New Year - to wonderful prospects that will turn out to be prosperous and happy family life... Shrovetide means that you will receive forgiveness and mercy; Easter is a spiritual blessing, unclouded mutual love for loved ones, good health.
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Dream interpretation - Holiday
A cheerful holiday in a dream portends personal happiness. To arrange a cheerful holiday in a dream portends happy meetings and a pleasant pastime. A festive procession in a dream portends you happy love. The longer the procession is, the longer your happiness will last.
Interpretation of dreams fromNew Year's Eve is considered the most anticipated of all holidays. Before the New Year, a lot of urgent matters arise, and many do not have time to cope with them. To prepare for the New Year on time, you should make a weekly plan. This approach will help save cash, nerves and time just before the holiday night.
Preparing for the New Year consists of planning important things, booking tables and making appointments for procedures, as well as making menus and preparing a place for the evening.
Preparing for the New Year without stress
There are a few simple ways How to prepare for the New Year, the easiest way is to do all the work a week before the holiday, but here a number of problems arise. It will be almost impossible to book a table in a cafe or restaurant a week before the celebration. In addition, grocery prices in stores are going up significantly. To avoid stress and unpleasant situations, it is worth thinking over all the details of the preparation process in advance.
The cafe for the New Year celebration must be booked 4 months in advance.
In order not to waste your nerves, it is recommended to draw up a plan according to which you can fully prepare for the New Year. Preparation should start from the first days of December. If we divide the plan into 4 weeks, then the holiday will pass without unnecessary costs and nerves. In addition, the hostess will have time to complete all the planned tasks on time.
Festive marathon: preparation for the New Year "First week"
In early December, they begin to prepare for the New Year slowly and gradually, solving some problems.
The list of important things to do for the first week of December includes:
Interesting! This kind of preparation starts with minor things and writing a basic plan. But at the moment, it is too early to buy groceries and think about the right makeup for the New Year.
Festive marathon: preparation for the New Year "Second week"
Preparations for the New Year in the second week begin more actively, but you can still do everything gradually and slowly.
The to-do list includes:
Attention! It is recommended to gradually start cleaning the apartment so that you do not do this for several hours before the holiday. Within a week, you should clean carpets and sofas, purchase the necessary decorative items for the apartment.
Festive marathon: preparation for the New Year "Week three"
Preparatory work for new year holiday continues, and you can do more important things. The prepared plan may additionally include expenses for the services of craftsmen, as well as the purchase of products and accessories for the home. Thus, the woman will keep track of the required costs for the New Year's Eve.
The third week should include:
Holiday Marathon: Preparing for the New Year "Finish Line"
At this stage, you can prepare everything you need for the New Year. There is only one week left before the holiday night, the apartment is clean enough, the day before the holiday you should wash the floors and wipe the dust. When the order is restored, the family can start decorating the Christmas tree. it the right time also for decorating an apartment with iridescent rain, tinsel and garlands.
First, you should install the Christmas tree and decorate it, and after that, decorate the room. It is best to start from the ceiling and work your way up to the floor. And to give a unique aroma, they use special conifers, essential oils"Orange" and "cedar". Tangerines and spruce twigs are placed in separate vases. These flavors can be used every night to tune in to the upcoming holiday.
A week before the holiday, you can decorate the Christmas tree.
In the last 2-3 days before new year's eve visiting a grocery store to purchase missing ingredients from a list. A woman can visit a master for a haircut, hair dye, or a manicure. Complex hairstyles and makeup are done just before the upcoming feast on December 31st. In the evening, on the last day of December, they are busy preparing dishes, setting the table and preparing for the celebration.
The last days of December should be planned especially carefully. It is recommended to write down all required purchases, mark the time of visiting beauty salons and masters by appointment. In addition, you can contact the guests and clarify whether their plans for the evening have changed in order to prepare meals for everyone.
Many parents want to celebrate the first birthday of the baby in an original way, so that both the baby and the guests would like the holiday. Definitely, the approach to the preparation and conduct of such a celebration can be radically different.
Someone is just trying to comply with the traditions and customs associated with the anniversary of the baby, but someone likes the ideas theme parties with original paraphernalia, funny treats and amusing entertainment.
For those who decide to organize a grandiose first birthday of a child, we offer detailed plan preparation for the event. It can be adjusted to suit your ideas, but the general principle will help not to miss any little things that can later upset the parents.
First birthday: 2 months before the holiday
Yes, yes, it is in 2 months that preparatory activities should be started.
Someone leaves the points proposed in the plan at the last moment and as a result is faced with insoluble problems that cannot be solved a couple of days before the holiday.
- We determine the date of the holiday.
It is customary to set the date of the holiday on the day the baby was born.
But if it falls on a working day, you can postpone the celebration for the next weekend.
According to folk signs The birthday is not celebrated in advance.
Therefore, even if the date falls on Monday, you should not postpone the celebration to the Sunday preceding it.
- Make a guest list.
It is advisable to agree with the guests on the date of the holiday and the possibility of their presence at the celebration.
Perhaps someone is planning a business trip or personal affairs for the date you selected.
Be sure to specify how many children there will be with adults.
This information will influence the entire further process of preparing for the holiday.
- Decide on the venue for the holiday.
If the baby's first holiday is planned to be held at home, start collecting ideas for decorating the room, table.
When the decision was made in favor of a restaurant, cafe, children's entertainment center, call the selected organizations and make a preliminary order for a specific date.
Believe me, if the date falls on the season of weddings, graduations in kindergartens, schools, finding a place in the last days will be problematic.
- Order animators, photo or video filming.
It is better to agree with the organizers of the holidays in advance so that there is time to agree on all the nuances.
If you decide to take on such events, find out where you can rent suitable equipment.
Child 1 year: 1.5 months before the celebration
Time rushes by relentlessly, and there is less and less time for serious preparation.
Moreover, mothers, who usually take on such concerns, are distracted by household chores and taking care of the baby.
Therefore, we do not postpone until later, but every day we carry out one item from the proposed plan:
- Deciding on the theme of the holiday.
It is the chosen theme that will help determine further actions related to decorating the room, gifts and outfits.
And let someone think that it is not so important for a child at 1 year old whether he is dressed as a bee or a sailor.
You can choose a really unusual, unused theme that will emphasize the parents' love for the baby.
- We buy or order an outfit for a child.
Definitely, buying is easy beautiful dress or a suit for the kid will not be a problem. But if you want to dress up your princess in the outfit of the bee Mai or the little mermaid, and the boy as a cowboy or a sea robber, you will have to think about how to make such an outfit or where you can buy or order it.
If you order via the Internet, the delivery time can take a month and a half. Consider the pitfalls of ordering via the Internet: suddenly the size does not fit or you simply don’t like the outfit when you put it on your baby.
- We draw up a wish list, we decide on a gift for the baby from the parents.
A gift list will make it easier for your family and friends to choose a present.
We will not talk about the uniformity of gifts or simply their uselessness. Of course, it is foolish to expect that the cost of the donated items will justify the costs of preparing for the holiday. But "order" is worth it.
It's a good idea to coordinate gifts with close relatives, for example, grandmothers, grandfathers, aunts, uncles.
After all, they can give a rather expensive item a bundle.
- We make preliminary purchases.
A week before the holiday, you can buy canned food, non-perishable food, drinks, alcohol.
Child's first birthday: 2 - 3 days left until 1 year
The richest in emotionally days.
The approach of the holiday is already felt in the air. The soul is solemn and exciting.
After all, this is the first holiday of the crumbs and mothers inevitably worry about how the child will react to such an event.
- We check the readiness of the details.
If you have prepared a list in advance of what you want to see at the holiday and how you will decorate everything, it will not be difficult to check the readiness of attributes, props, gifts.
We collect all the decor elements in one place so as not to waste time on searches at the last moment.
- We post photo albums, books of wishes, disks.
Relatives are happy to watch photos of the baby, as well as albums where the parents recorded all the stages of the first year.
Therefore, do not deprive relatives and friends of this pleasure.
Take them out of the closets in advance so as not to look for them at the last moment or in the presence of guests.
- We bring beauty.
We do not forget about our beloved and set aside a few hours to visit the hairdresser and get a manicure.
We check all the outfits for the baby, mom and dad.
- We make purchases of products according to the list, blanks.
Think about what meals you can prepare in advance.
Perhaps there are treats on the list that require pickling or that allow you to make certain preparations.
This will unload you on the last day.
1st Birthday Tomorrow
Finishing touches today.
Therefore, we do not spray on trifles, on what we did not have time, could not, missed.
There is no time left for grinding. We cover only the important remaining steps.
- Cleaning the house.
It is advisable to entrust this stage to dad or sisters, brothers.
Believe me, they will perfectly cope with superficial cleaning without a female leadership.
Of course, if you have not planned to general the house on the eve of the birthday.
- We take orders.
If you ordered a cake, gingerbread, collage, balls or other props, it is on this day that you need to pick them up and bring them home or to a restaurant.
- Cooking treats.
We bake a cake, if there is no custom-made baked goods on the plan, and we also prepare salads without dressing them with sauces, marinate meat, lay out sweets in flowerpots, prepare soft drinks.
- We check the charging and readiness of the equipment.
Charge your camera and camera, as well as your phones.
It would be nice if there were spare batteries for such equipment.
We check the performance of DVD, laptop, karaoke. Don't leave it for tomorrow.
And in case of unforeseen breakdowns or malfunctions, you can still find a replacement.
- We decorate the room.
It is advisable to leave this stage for a while, when you put the child to bed.
Let such a holiday be a real surprise for him.
Happy first birthday
And now the holiday has come. After the baby wakes up, congratulate him on his birthday.
You can even give some kind of present to a toy or a bunch of helium balloons.
But do not forget that parents are waiting for the last stages of preparation for the 1st birthday.
It is advisable on this day to share responsibilities and invite close friends to help.
- Cooking hot dishes and salads.
We finish preparing treats for guests, dressing salads, preparing meat or fish dishes, decorating sandwiches and snacks.
We lay out the dishes in pots, salad bowls, cups and be sure to decorate with prepared toppers.
- We are finishing the preparation of the room, yard, table, candy bar.
This work can be done by assistants or ideological inspirers.
Especially for the installation of a table, benches, hanging garlands, you will need male help. But it is better to do the serving yourself or entrust the lady to whom you can entrust such an important process.
Everything is ready for the holiday. We dress up the baby and meet the guests.
Happy Birthday!
Have fun from the bottom of your heart and do not think about the fact that something was not in time and suddenly something will not please the guests. But if you think that this is where your responsibilities are completely exhausted, then you are deeply mistaken. After all, not only will the parents have to control the entire process, but there is still cleaning ahead.
A week after the holiday
The holiday is over. Wonderful memories and wonderful photos and videos remind of him. Share your joy with your friends and family.
Why not grab some tea to watch the holiday footage.
And be sure to send all the participants of the holiday the most interesting photos and video from the first birthday.
As you can see, preparing for your first birthday is not an easy and lengthy process.
But, believe me, if you approach him correctly, he will not be able to turn your life into a series of problems and fuss. And the holiday itself will indeed become unforgettable.
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