Ok, who is calling Thanksgiving already and telling family you won't be attending

[Anonymous]

In my state Covid #s are steady/rising. I work a job with high risk individuals. DH and I are thinking of just letting family know now not to plan on us and planning our own thing with the kids. We would have to travel 3 hours to Inlaws or 6 hours to my parents and we just don't want to do that with COVID.

Anyone else?

[Anonymous]

Yes, we let people know we're not hosting. We're just going to stick with our small family this year. I'm actually looking forward to not having to put on a big production. I might do Ina Gartern's turkey roll-up instead of a whole bird.

[Anonymous]

I haven't told anyone but feel like it is obvious. Our state and school has strict quarantine rules that I assume will still be in place then. We have some local family (we're not in DC) we might invite over though.

[Anonymous]

Not us, we are taking the other tack. We are waiting until e week of to determine if we will be out of quarantine and able to visit people in states to the north.

[Anonymous]

I agree that it's kind of obvious. But in the back of my mind I know my ILs will hint at making plane reservations so I'm going to nip in the bud this month and say no.

[Anonymous]

We are going to wait and see. Our rules are (if state guidelines make it possible at all):

-Everyone has to quarantine for two weeks
-My MIL/FIL only for Thanksgiving; my mom/dad only for Christmas. No cousins, aunts and uncles, etc.
-This can all be cancelled day-of if anyone shows any signs of illness. No "it's just a sore throat," no "I'm on the tail end of a cold," no "her temperature is elevated, but it's not technically a fever."
-You may be asked to leave early if anyone starts developing any symptoms of any type of illness.

Luckily, both sets of parents can drive in one shot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree that it's kind of obvious. But in the back of my mind I know my ILs will hint at making plane reservations so I'm going to nip in the bud this month and say no.

If air travel is necessary, that's a hard no!

[Anonymous]

We have local family so we'll see if we can make it work by keeping isolated in the lead up to the holidays. So we haven't called it yet. But I'm also fully prepared for it to not be normal and not nearly as many people as usual. And probably no multiple days of bouncing around to different family member's houses. Just one gathering, and that's it.

[Anonymous]

My family has lots of college students who will be returning from their campuses. We have discussed that any gathering will be in December after we are sure they are healthy. We just bought a heater for our porch and hoping for a small gathering there.

[Anonymous]

Since it’ll be indoors, we’re not doing Thanksgiving with family. We are being more careful than the others, possibly overdoing it but whatever.

[Anonymous]

I said no last month. We travel out of state but this year we are staying home.

[Anonymous]

I wish I could say no to Thanksgiving because we always spend it at my ILs, but then DH would object to spending Xmas with my family, which I still want to do.

Yes, I'm being inconsistent. But I hate traveling for a short holiday like Tgiving and have never spent it in my own house.

[Anonymous]

I've been super cautious (some say paranoid) about Covid. But I am single and all of my family lives in another state -- I would have to fly. The thought of spending Thanksgiving and Christmas alone is so depressing. I am still in "wait and see" mode.

[Anonymous]

We have to travel for both sides of the family and have decided we are not traveling this year.

[Anonymous]

I’m having a huge Thanksgiving with the extended family on my mom’s side and some friends. It’s going to be awesome! 😁