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Post by peaname on Aug 4, 2020 20:11:44 GMT
Zoom Christmas? So sad. I had the idea for a covid tree ornament but someone on Etsy beat me to it. I really hope there’s a vaccine for the most vulnerable by then.
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Post by moodyblue on Aug 4, 2020 20:54:04 GMT
I don't know what will happen yet.
My mother is in assisted living and we haven't been able to see her in person in months. She's 91 so we aren't going to take many risks around her.
My brother would be the one hosting for our side of the family, but he's a dialysis patient and high risk, so if things aren't greatly improved, a family gathering isn't likely.
My husband and I hosted his family on Christmas Eve for many years, and I did it last year. Not sure what will happen if it isn't advisable to have people here.
With my husband gone, I could end up spending the holidays by myself.
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Post by Dalai Mama on Aug 4, 2020 21:24:11 GMT
We’re already planning on going to the cottage for Thanksgiving with just our immediate family. We’ll see for Christmas.
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Post by breetheflea on Aug 4, 2020 21:35:46 GMT
We almost always spend Thanksgiving at home, just us and the kids, so no change there. We almost always drive to the in-laws on a weekend near Christmas so my MIL doesn't have to mail Christmas and birthday presents. My mom usually shows up semi-unannounced (we know she's probably coming, usually no clue what time) in the middle of Christmas morning...
Thanksgiving will probably not change.
I'm not sure about Christmas at this point.
We don't do big family events with my family on holidays due to past drama so whatever happens isn't a big deal to me. I'm sure DH feels differently...
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Post by Sharon on Aug 4, 2020 22:01:11 GMT
We've already bought our plane tickets to go see family for Christmas. At thins point, we're going.
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Post by johnnysmom on Aug 4, 2020 22:22:30 GMT
Too soon to say. If Christmas were tomorrow I could see us having a quick celebration (no dinner, perhaps snacks and quick gift exchange) but that's based on our area at the moment. Our families both live within an hour so we don't have to make plans for quite awhile, stuff is changing every week so it's far too soon to think about something 4 months away.
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Post by julie5 on Aug 4, 2020 22:39:17 GMT
My holidays will look the exact same. We don’t have any friends or family. Just me, my husband, and my children.
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Post by julie5 on Aug 4, 2020 22:40:40 GMT
Most colleges here are going remote from Thanksgiving through the New Year. Something tells me your kids will be home. Neither of my kids' schools are. My daughter will be home from thanksgiving until mid February. They’ll still do classes online. She’s going to Indiana university.
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Post by Scrapper100 on Aug 4, 2020 22:56:44 GMT
We usually host both but expect it to just be us. We have a very small family and don’t expect them to come at this point.
I think we need to come up with some fun things to do to make it more festive and fun since it will just be the three of us. It’s so hard to get our 17 year old autistic son to participate but need to work harder at this point.
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Post by huskermom98 on Aug 5, 2020 2:46:06 GMT
We usually hit 3 places in 3-4 days for both holidays. I'm sure my Dad & stepmom will have a normal get-together, but not so sure about my Mom. Hard to say with the in-laws because FIL has a lot of health issues, but it would be a much smaller group. We got "snowed out" of Nebraska several years ago at Christmas--it was fun to be able to stay home and have a "normal" Christmas with just the 4 of us, but I generally don't mind the crazy travel schedule because I enjoy seeing my family (and deal with having to see the in-laws...)
I really hope we can get together because since Christmas we've only seen the in-laws--no one from my family.
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Post by kate on Aug 5, 2020 2:59:45 GMT
We can't get together with family, either. If my parents weren't getting on in years, I'd shrug and say, "Maybe next year." At this point, though, "next year" is not a safe assumption. We usually spend Thanksgiving with DH's side and Christmas with mine. Too much travel and too many people in fragile health on both sides, though. I wonder if we should try to get an Airbnb somewhere outside the city just for a change of scenery. ![:(](//storage.proboards.com/5645536/images/mYSUyHtG9Jrcmm_ydVcK.jpg)
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Post by refugeepea on Aug 5, 2020 3:49:29 GMT
I think they are great for most people. I prefer to stay home.
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Post by fiddlesticks on Aug 5, 2020 4:38:04 GMT
My sister and her family usually come for Thanksgiving but last year they brought a puking kid without telling us so it will just be DH, DD and I.
My DH and I were just talking about Christmas the other night. If we think we can swing it, I think we will quarantine for 14 days if MIL wants to do the same and she can drive over the 90 minutes from her house. This year it will be 10 years since FIL died. DH is an only child and his birthday is on Dec 23 and she has spent every Christmas in those ten years with us. It would take a bit of organizing on my part to have everything in the house by Dec 9th that we would need but I’d be willing to do it.
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Post by msliz on Aug 5, 2020 4:58:35 GMT
We usually have my mom over for Thanksgiving, but this year I'm going to suggest she spends the day with my brother's family. They've been seeing each other anyway. We'll be a bigger risk to her after school starts back up, and I'm not sure I want her visiting anyway. She's not driving longer distances now, so we'd have to drive her here and back, and she'd be staying overnight too.
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Post by hannahruth on Aug 5, 2020 9:48:05 GMT
Christmas will just be me and the husband, he's going to volunteer to work if someone with children wants to swap shifts with him. We figure he might as well seeing he'll be home anyway. Years ago I worked in the radiology department of a major hospital which was open 24/7. Come holiday time obviously there were staff who did not want to be rostered but there were a couple of staff member that volunteered to work as their husbands/partners worked and they would have been home alone. Didn't appreciate the until I had had children!
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Post by scrappintoee on Aug 5, 2020 12:51:08 GMT
I'm very sad that we probably won't take our usual fun road trip to spend it with our families! ![:(](//storage.proboards.com/5645536/images/mYSUyHtG9Jrcmm_ydVcK.jpg) On a MUCH lighter note...... an airing of grievances for Festivus via video call with friends sleepingbooty ---Once AGAIN, you've made me laugh---thank you!!! My family latched onto that episode of "Seinfeld" and we say it every Christmas--even better when said with Frank Costanza's gruff New York accent, and his trademark YELLING ! ![(rofl)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/rofl.png) ![](https://i.imgur.com/85FTaTG.jpg?1)
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Post by peabay on Aug 5, 2020 13:00:48 GMT
We've already talked about it. My daughter and her boyfriend, in DC, are the only two who have not been in our bubble. They will come up 2 weeks before Thanksgiving, quarantine in an in-law apartment at another family member's house and then stay through Christmas. They are both working from home, they'll bring their cat and they'll be here for at least a month.
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Post by sleepingbooty on Aug 5, 2020 13:47:35 GMT
sleepingbooty ---Once AGAIN, you've made me laugh---thank you!!! My family latched onto that episode of "Seinfeld" and we say it every Christmas--even better when said with Frank Costanza's gruff New York accent, and his trademark YELLING ! ![(rofl)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/rofl.png) If you've never done a Festivus airing of grievances of your own, you absolutely should! Just avoid doing it with people you don't particularly appreciate/have very differing political opinions so Christmas doesn't turn sour 2 days early but it's hilarious. You need to find someone who'll play Mr Costanza's part as good as they can, accent and anger, to get the airing of grievances going. It's a mix of over-the-top acting and roasting that I bet your family will love. We give extra points to whomever managed to place as many iconic quotes from The Strike episode during the celebration. "I find tinsel distracting" is my fave to sneak in there.
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Post by scrappintoee on Aug 5, 2020 14:53:30 GMT
We've already talked about it. My daughter and her boyfriend, in DC, are the only two who have not been in our bubble. They will come up 2 weeks before Thanksgiving, quarantine in an in-law apartment at another family member's house and then stay through Christmas. They are both working from home, they'll bring their cat and they'll be here for at least a month. Awww......that sounds SO NICE, what a great plan !! ![:smile:](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) I wish we could do something like that. It's going to be suchhhh a bummer not seeing our families this year. If you've never done a Festivus airing of grievances of your own, you absolutely should! Just avoid doing it with people you don't particularly appreciate/have very differing political opinions so Christmas doesn't turn sour 2 days early but it's hilarious. You need to find someone who'll play Mr Costanza's part as good as they can, accent and anger, to get the airing of grievances going. It's a mix of over-the-top acting and roasting that I bet your family will love. We give extra points to whomever managed to place as many iconic quotes from The Strike episode during the celebration. "I find tinsel distracting" is my fave to sneak in there. sleepingbooty ---Wow! Sounds like you and yours have a BLAST with it !! In my fam, we are boring and don't do ANY of that, we just love to imitate Mr. Constanza saying "airing of grievances!" Then we just giggle, then someone ELSE says it, yelling louder or making their accent over-the-top. There are never any (humorous or serious)---actually aired! (but wow, sometimes I WISH we could (constructively/ kindly) air some grievances!!!
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Post by jennifercw on Aug 5, 2020 15:53:20 GMT
My college kids will be home from Thanksgiving through January. (If they don't get sent home before then.) Nothing we can do about Thanksgiving so we'll spend that one just the four of us.
But like others here - we are hoping we can isolate for 14 days prior to Christmas so we can spend time with extended family. Lots can happen between now and then but we'll see how it goes.
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Post by belgravia on Aug 5, 2020 17:16:03 GMT
I think (hope) my parents will be able to spend Christmas with us. We don’t often see them over the holidays because they are usually at their winter home in California (we are in Canada). They probably won’t be able to go south this winter, so they’ll be able to come here!
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Post by jmd74 on Aug 5, 2020 17:49:50 GMT
It will just be immediate family for us. My son and his girlfriend live 2 hours away and they will also be coming.
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Post by lbp on Aug 5, 2020 19:25:25 GMT
Ours will be the same. Always just my family, my sisters and my Dad
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Post by beanbuddymom on Aug 5, 2020 20:11:14 GMT
I’ve already decided we will not be getting together with DH family on Christmas or thanksgiving days. Not an option. DH mother will fuss and inevitably manipulate some way to get her way but it’s not happening.
Last year we hosted Christmas for DH family and his brother showed up looking tired. After being here for an hour he told DH he had been up all night puking and $hitting 😑😳🤬 . When I heard this I was FURIOUS as you can imagine. His family has no common sense and has come to gatherings sick before to avoid the wrath of missing a family event from my MIL.
After this last incident there was a less than zero chance I wanted to continue spending Christmas Day with his family anyway but this pandemic has solidified in stone it won’t be happening this year and I’m frankly thrilled, sorry.
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