"Come on. The focus of New Year's Eve is not traditionally the family. Christmas is."
So preferring to stay home with my husband and kids on new years eve makes me a non-traditionalist? Or we could look at it another way, I'm a mom and a wife and my family comes first. I don't like being out on the road with drunk drivers, I don't like hanging around drunks (new years eve tradition is getting drunk, right?). Ever been in a room with people drinking and you're the only sober one? I have health issues so I don't drink at all. My husband stopped drinking when we had children. Just our life choice.
I call it being a responsible grown up.
Well I think anytime you are out late at night you have to worry about drunks on the road. I friend of mine (black) lost her husband who is white to a drunk driver this past August. They had 2 kids and she was 5 months pregnant with their 3rd child when he was killed. She just had the baby 2 weeks ago and is now alone with 3 kids under the age of 5 to raise on her own. The only reason he was on the road so late was because he was coming home from work, my heart aches for her. That is one of the reasons I don't go out in the wee late hours, unless I have to. It can not only happen on New Years Eve, but anytime of the year.