Happy new year!
Our ladies and gents at Woodstock Residential Care Home started their New Year preparations by creating some New Year props to use during our party.
We cut out stars with ‘2024’ and ‘Happy new year’ on and coloured them in a variety of bright colours, attaching them to straws with tissue paper streamers. We would use these to wave in the air along to music. We then set up for our party and had a sparkly silver backdrop ready for our pictures to be taken with some funny New Year glasses and headbands.
For our party, Anna came to sing some songs for us to have a dance and singalong to. We all got together and counted down from ten and all cheered ‘Happy New year!’. We then all held hands and sang Auld Lang Syne to celebrate the new year.
Some of our residents also decided to stay up and see in the new year at midnight with a glass of wine and watch the fireworks in London on television.
Our Woodstock Care Team would like to wish all our residents, families and friends a very ‘Happy New Year’ and best wishes for 2024.
Birthday celebrations
We also celebrated two recent birthdays together; Wendy turned 80 and Muriel turned 92.
We decked our lounge with banners and streamers and had big ’80’ balloons for Wendy who was also treated to a tiara and sash, plus a big 80 badge from her family. We all gathered together during the party and sang happy birthday to both of the ladies and presented them with beautiful cakes that had been made by our Cook Lynn and Chef Damon. Wendy had some lovely visits throughout the day and received flowers, a teddy and lots of cards.
We were all treated to some cocktails during our party; we made Pina Coladas and even created our own cocktail called the ‘Wendy Woo Woo‘!
