Your positive, creative ideas for celebrating 2020 holidays safely

StarSong

StarSong

Awkward is my Superpower
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Humans are perhaps the most adaptable species on the planet. When we stop wringing our hands, playing blame games, whining, looking for loopholes, and raging against the deliverers of bad news, we open ourselves up to devising creative, safe ways to celebrate with loved ones this year.

What plans do are you formulating, if any? Feel free to describe your previous traditions while explaining how you'll manage them differently this year, but please no whining or raging against the machine. If you find yourself at a stumbling block, please describe your challenge. Another forum member may be able to help you find a way through.

Let's please keep this thread positive and work together to all have joyful, safe holidays.
 

I'll go first. Instead of hosting the 4-5 large pizza eating/cookie decorating parties that I live for, starting this weekend I'll begin making, quartering and freezing pizzas. I'm also moving forward on cookie baking.

Beginning next weekend we'll ask our usual partiers to schedule very quick, masked, distanced, outdoor visits, during which they'll get a giant ziplock bag tucked inside a traditional pizza box. It will contain 8 quarters of (wax-paper separated) frozen pizza pies along with instructions on reheating. I make 7 different kinds of pizza, so they'll get a quarter of each type plus an extra of plain cheese. I'll be making A LOT of pizza.

We'll schedule visitors so it's only one couple or family at a time. No large gatherings. Hubby & I will double mask during our short visit and maintain distance, just as we always do when outside our safety bubble.

We'll also give them a box containing bags of the 8-10 different cookies I make each season, which is their usual party favor. This year they'll have to decorate their sugar cookies at home instead of at our house, so we'll add little containers with a few colors of frosting, some tiny bags of various sprinkles, and information on where they are to post photos of their creations.

It might not be the same, but it'll be good enough. Over the years many have told us that the holidays wouldn't be the same for them without our parties. It wouldn't be the same for us either, which is why we're cobbling this together as best we can.

Family Christmas Eve & Christmas Day traditions aren't yet on my radar. Hoping someone here will share creative ideas for those traditions.
 
No parties are being planned, to my knowledge, and no flying to visit each other. At the most, we will have little visits with one or two close family members who live locally. Not even sure about that.

But I'm sure we'll schedule a Zoom session for us all to get together. We have our family gift exchange going (everybody draws one name and gets a nice present for that person), the gifts are mostly arriving by mail, and thanks will be issued online. I don't decorate, but my children and grandkids do, so we can share holiday decorations online. Not ideal, but better than nothing.
 
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