We officially pulled the plug on Christmas this year

[SteveG]

space-time wrote:
My family did that 2000 years ago.

what do you celebrate instead?

around this time of year...Hanukkah, just like Jesus did.

[C(-)ris]

We stayed home for Thanksgiving. Not sure about Christmas yet. Pretty laid back for my family since we are scattered all over the US, typically only one or two of us are able to make it home each year.

I'm not a huge Holiday person anyway, I like the gatherings, but don't care what the occasion is that brings everyone together and I certainly don't care if it is on December 25th or not. Christmas in June is just as good as Christmas in December as far as I am concerned.

[testcase]

space-time wrote:
[quote=Acer]
We stayed home for Thanksgiving from my in-laws side, and we just made the call to stay home for Christmas from my side. New Years, which we host for local friends, is most likely a bust as well.

SMART PEOPLE

:agree:


Maybe you can do it on Ground Hog's Day.

[SteveO]

Ditto us for TG and Xmas. No thanks, miss my fam but we all gotta do the right thing. I made dinner and dropped it off at my Ma's house for TG (Ma and younger sis were there, masked). Wife and I stayed and chatted for 10 minutes at 8' distance in large open room (with outside doors also open) inside, all of us masked. Then we skedaddled.

Will do something similar for Xmas. Older sis invited us all for dinner at her place. No effing way. I am floored that she still dines in at restaurants with friends, and her hubs goes to bars for darts.

Still trying desperately to get my younger sis to quit her side gig which is teaching med students. And ditto for my mom who plays cards with her friends weekly. Yes they are masked but to me, being in a single enclosed room with non-roomies for more than 15 minutes, even masked/shielded, isn't a great idea unless that is your actual, essential job. Ugh.

[hal]

We went worked on plans for TG over and over and couldn't find a plan that really worked, so we decided right then that there just won't be any face to face holiday this year

[Rick-o]

When my Mom passed back in '88 my sister took over the Christmas gathering. This will be the first time she won't be hosting the get together in 24 years. I'm disappointed, but understand fully.

I was going to pass anyway if she had decided to go ahead with it. I have been hunkered down as much as possible since all this covid stuff started.

[mrbigstuff]

No parties this year but we've been seeing my parents the whole time either outside or masked in separate rooms with windows open fan on. We've been tested a few times and we'll see them for Xmas briefly. But it's gonna be cold.

[rz]

Wife wanted to go up north to visit her family. I told her I didn't want to go, but we were going anyway until her sister said they're not going to visit her parents. So thankfully we're staying put for Xmas.

[RecipeForDisaster]

I’m proud of the responsible people on this forum.

Just the two of us who live here had thanksgiving together at home, and Christmas will be even less festive as we are both working. I don’t know what the in-laws expect, but I’d like a brief outdoor visit with each of my parents. The in-laws don’t like to go outside. I expect we will leave all their gifts on their porches. Yippee. Christmas at home( making the food we want to eat) is nice, though.

[Sam3]

Thanksgiving was cancelled, and so is Christmas, both the family as well as extended reunion Christmas celebration. Well, the extend Christmas celebration will be postponed until the summer, Christmas in July, probably.

We may go see my mother in law and sis-in-law on Christmas day (they live net door to each other and frequently see each other, it really is like they are living in the same household.) But other than that, it'll be just us three.