Confetti is just paper.
Field Guide for Moms Lesson 21
Happy New Year Moms! How blessed are we to see another year?!
It’s safe to say I came limping into 2026 after two straight weeks of illness for my family and I was stressed that I wasn’t prepared with a way for my girls to celebrate New Year’s Eve/Day. My oldest daughter said “what are we doing for new year’s, aren’t we supposed to do something special?” And feeling like I’d failed a little bit, I quickly brainstormed what we could do. We had no sparkling juice or plastic champagne flutes, no fun 2026 glasses or sparklers, but you know what we always have in our home… paper. I last minute decided to cut up colorful confetti from construction paper and we grabbed a ball and did a short “ball drop” countdown and threw confetti before she went to bed. She absolutely loved it and said, “let’s do this every New Year’s Eve!” and we did it again with my 2-year-old when she woke up in the morning on New Year’s Day, yelling Happy New Year and throwing confetti, which by this time had drastically multiplied in amount.
It multiplied because it’s easy to make. Confetti is just paper. You make the joy and the magic when you throw it and celebrate with it. My daughters made and threw confetti the entire day and their joy was truly endless and contagious! This experience brought me a beautiful lesson lived and learned right away in the new year. It’s okay if you aren’t always prepared or if you don’t have an elaborate activity planned, the simplest of things can still be special and memorable. We’re coming off the holidays and I don’t need to remind you all that you are magical, hopefully you saw it and felt it all season long. But we live in a world where it’s easy to feel inadequate or unprepared because of all that you see others doing. You don’t need to do more or be more, you probably have paper. Remember, confetti is just paper.
To top off this experience for me, my 6-year-old told me her new year’s resolution is “to make more confetti” and I was already thinking it’s going to be one of mine too.
Keep going!
Love,
Michelle