What do you think the holidays will be like this year?

[Anonymous]

So hard to know what to expect

[Anonymous]

I do not plan to be able to get together with elderly or high risk relatives indoors.

[Anonymous]

So excited to NOT see family! Woo Hoo!

[Anonymous]

Boring. Lonely.

[Anonymous]

Same as usual.

Our families are in Europe and we see each other at non-Holiday times.

[Anonymous]

We normally travel each Thanksgiving and each Christmas, so this will be the first time my kids have been home for them.

[Anonymous]

Estranged insane SIL is slowly weaning her way back into extended family and I have no desire to see her. Other SIL is getting divorced from crazy BIL. Would’ve been some fun times!

[Anonymous]

Both DH's and my own parents are in denial that we'll have to be apart for the holidays. Both sides have at least one parent considered high risk, so we have to be the ones to draw the line. Anticipating some drama if things haven't changed by Thanksgiving and we decide to stay home.

[Anonymous]

Thanksgiving at home with my local parents. FIL might travel (driving distance) to join us, depending on conditions at that point.
Christmas at home, likely also with my parents.

We usually travel to see BIL/SIL and extended family at some point during the holidays, but we will not be doing so this year.

[Anonymous]

Boring and crappy, just like every other day since March and every day into the foreseeable future.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Boring and crappy, just like every other day since March and every day into the foreseeable future.

Hugs. It will be fine.

[Anonymous]

It will be the first Christmas we have ever spent with the kids (15, 10) at home with the exception of one year when dh was in the hospital. I’m kind of glad we’ve had it forced upon us.

[Anonymous]

We just visited my parents in New England a few weeks ago. We self quarantined and got tested before we left, then drove straight up with only one bathroom break. It was totally doable and what we'll do for the holidays unless things change drastically. Thanksgiving we do with local relatives that we see now anyways.

Halloween I'm most nervous about, TBH. My 5 year old is a Halloween fanatic and already planning our family costumes. If I have to tell her Halloween is cancelled, kid is going to be crushed. We would probably go to the inlaws or cousins in the suburbs, assuming it's not cancelled everywhere.

[Anonymous]

Thanksgiving will be a bummer because we generally travel to my parents on the west coast and hosted a big one last year with them here but this year it will likely be not much of anything.

Christmas we have always done at home so I am looking forward to work quieting down as it tends to do that time of year and being able to truly enjoy the pleasures of being at home (as opposed to now, when it's hard to appreciate some things because work has been crazy)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We just visited my parents in New England a few weeks ago. We self quarantined and got tested before we left, then drove straight up with only one bathroom break. It was totally doable and what we'll do for the holidays unless things change drastically. Thanksgiving we do with local relatives that we see now anyways.

Halloween I'm most nervous about, TBH. My 5 year old is a Halloween fanatic and already planning our family costumes. If I have to tell her Halloween is cancelled, kid is going to be crushed. We would probably go to the inlaws or cousins in the suburbs, assuming it's not cancelled everywhere.

Same on Halloween. My 4yo is obsessed with it and already talking costumes for herself and her new baby sister. We are going to have to come up with some way of celebrating, whether we trick or treat or not.