How will you do Christmas this year?

Ronni

Ronni

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I was going to ask about Thanksgiving and Christmas plans, but I see there's already a thread about Thanksgiving. We'll be downsizing considerably from our usual Thanksgiving with family and many friends. It will be just some of the his and my kids gathering together at our house along with the grands...those already in our Covid bubble. Certainly a lot different than our usual rambunctious Thanksgiving get together, with lots of adults and kids and littles coming and going.

Christmas is my most favorite holiday of the year, but it will be different too. I'm still working out HOW exactly it will be different. We've always done Christmas in several stages in order to accommodate everyone's holiday schedules and such. There's a Christmas Eve thing, a Christmas Morning thing, Christmas breakfast, a gathering around lunch time or after, all with some different people and some of the same people, and then everyone who can will head to the movies in a large group. Not this year.

We'll probably do a gift exchange with Ron's kids and grands at our house, and then another with my kids and grands at my daughter's house. I imagine I'll cook the traditional big breakfast when I get there, but that will probably be it. It makes me sad. I hate this. :(
 

We will not be travelling to Virginia for Thanksgiving to be with my daughter like we usually do.
My cousin and his wife will come to our home for Thanksgiving. They are older and don't socialize. They can make it in a couple of hours without stopping.
Christmas is up in the air. I'd like to go to Virginia to be with my grandkids but only time will tell how safe a trip like that will be. We can make it in about 5 hours but will need to stop at rest areas. That bothers me.
If we can't go I guess we will have a quiet dinner at home with my son.
 
Same way we do Christmas every year.
Set up the tree. Decorate it. Put Christmas lights up outside. By all kinds of gifts and holiday treats. Make a bunch of cookies. Sing a bunch of carols.Stuff my face with Christmas dinner then complain about all the weight I’ve gained. 🤓
 
Same as always, no change in our house.

Typically, we (as in family) all take turns hosting Christmas Day dinner, but this year it's been decided that as a family we aren't going to do that.

With that said, we'll still be open to the idea of a few people dropping in.
 
We were always challenged driving through the high mountain highways to get DH’s family. It was generally an every other year thing. His ex would be with them the other year. We were there last year and since we didn’t travel there in the summer, we definitely won’t be going this year, I hope. My family is in the east and I’ve only travelled at Christmas once to see them. The planes & hassle are too much.

I’d rather just stay home anyway. Christmas is a non-event for me. The kids & grandkids get a cheque. I barely even decorate anymore. Bah humbug, I guess. Bottom line, nothing is really changing this year.
 
We will do a very small thanksgiving if possible.

Christmas will be gift cards for everyone in our family, but no celebration. I was never big on Christmas, and with so many dead in my country, so much grief, so much sorrow. No, I just can not bear the thought.
 
I have already done Thanksgiving here and we celebrated it alone (just my immediate family of 3). No celebrating at Christmas either. We will probably do a Facetime with my daughter and her family. We are not visiting anyone at this time unless it is a driveway visit keeping our distance.
 
Huz has a Christmas Day/Birthday and my Birthday is 3 days later
We usually get overlooked...I was going to say forgotten by family and friends
We always remember each other and the peculiarities of having Birthdays at Christmas time
So in answer to the question we will do the same as we always have and basically enjoy each others company
We can indulge in the festivities because we won't be drinking and driving
 
I have been invited to my aunt's house for Thanksgiving. I was surprised - thought she'd just have her immediate family since the family Christmas party was cancelled. I appreciate it, otherwise it would be a turkey sandwich, Internet and TV.

Christmas, for me, is like any other day. I do not decorate and expect no company or invitations for that day. Also, all social events associated with the holiday that I usually attend have been cancelled. I hope there are some good movies on cable.

bah humbug.jpg
 
We’ve made a preliminary booking for Christmas Day lunch at our usual hotel but if it dosn’t materialise we’ll spend the day at my home, as long as I’m with my daughter and her partner
I don’t care where we are

He can bring the starter, I’ll do the main and she can bring the dessert, sorted !

🎄🎁🎉🍾🥂🍸🎅🏼
 
Both holidays are going to be quiet this year. Since I'm immunity compromised, I need to stay away from other people. Christmas plans depend on when I get surgery and at what stage of recovery I'll be in when Christmas eve and Christmas day come.

We will have dinners with my son and his wife sometime during Thanksgiving and Christmas.
I'll miss the socializing and get togethers with friends and extended family, but there will be other holidays in future years.
 
Oldest daughter and her 2 daughters will come over. I don't feel like all that cooking and daughter will have just that day off so we will have probably dinner delivered. Last year it was seafood gumbo, rice and cornbread. I made sweet tea and Patti LaBelle's sweet potato pie, her pumpkin pie and banana pudding was dessert. I used to make all those desserts but I am too tired now to make them. Patti's come close to homemade so we buy hers at Walmart. Daughter does pick up there so no one has to mingle with the crowds! Other daughter in Va. will do holidays with husband's family but we will talk on phone through out the day!
 
I'm not going anywhere for 'turkey day' or Xmas staying put.At this point,I don't know if I'll go over to my close friends,Marcia&Dave's for xmas eve dinner like I've done every yr.They live 2 blocks away,it depends if the virus cases here in WNY have subsided from where they are now.
I'll probably zoom with my brother&family like we do every Sun for the holidays
 
Due to a few recent deaths within the past 2 years, our Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday gathering has dwindled. It was my late daughter in law's sister who had Thanksgiving last year and there were quite a few of us. But this year, her husband has simply walked away from their marriage, so it may just be her, the two kids, my son and I. And the same appears to be looming for Christmas. Last year I did Christmas for my daughter in law's family, but not this year. Her father did invite us for Thanksgiving but neither my son nor I care to make the trip up there. His wife is a rude insufferable bore. She is a Pediatrician who should have retired long ago. None of us likes her at all. Even her own kids can't stand her. So, we have to pussy foot around that as well so as not to hurt Tom's feelings. But, I have bone to pick with him over an incident he still has to answer for when his daughter was dying. Oh, well, let us not go there, enough hurt and discomfort in the world.
 
No Thanksgiving plans, other than teenage granddaughter is spending a couple days at my apartment. It's her birthday and we'll do some shopping. I already have her birthday gifts wrapped.

Christmas ... I'll probably get the grandkids their presents as soon as they go on Christmas vacation from school ... Because later in that week their family is leaving for an extended camping trip to Austin, Texas, and they are meeting up with more family there.
They love these camping trips .... and they just bought a new 33' camper and need to break it in.

For all of that - I am most happy to sit home and get their texts and photos of the trip ... and I'm relieved of dog sitting duties too ... dogs get to go! Yeah!:)
 

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