CHRISTMAS - Page 4

violann · ‎03-10-2010

@gidgetgh - The virus has been teaching me a fondness for the expression "You be YOU". Allow yourself WHATEVER feels right for whatever minute you're in from today until July 23, 2021.

Thinking of you........

FrostyBabe1 · ‎05-09-2016

Our family Christmas gathering is quite small, and I see no reason for that to be cancelled or modified. I'm usually at my beach place in Florida at Thanksgiving with my participation in the family events being sporadic at best. I'll make a decision about that at the appropriate time. July isn't the time.

~The more someone needs to brag about how wonderful, special, successful, wealthy or important they are, the greater the likelihood that it isn't true. ~

happycat · ‎09-18-2010

No, I'm afraid not. Yes, it is 5 months away, but given the last four months around here, I can't imagine us all crowding in to momma and daddys like normal. No. And its real sad too, cause for a long tie, it has not been just us. For years, its been a few friends who don't have family, who loved coming to my folks house, both at Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Also sad cause my folks are elderly, like so many, and we probably don't have many holidays left.

RedTop · ‎09-01-2010

My very small family has continued to see each other as usual these last few months, and will continue to do so as long as everyone remains healthy.

amyb · ‎04-05-2010

@violann wrote:
@gidgetgh - The virus has been teaching me a fondness for the expression "You be YOU". Allow yourself WHATEVER feels right for whatever minute you're in from today until July 23, 2021.

Thinking of you........

To @gidgetgh So sorry for your loss, I feel for you. I agree wholeheartedly with @violann here and I've been feeling exactly the same. You go ahead and do life and the holiday however you feel right doing so right now...I think 2020 turning everything upside down has made me feel the same.

I lost my dear mom also in 'April due to Covid..and also have a very small extended family left. I decided the other day when visiting with my cousin I am closest to...I'm skipping Christmas! She said Yes! That it was exactly what she and her girls did with Easter when her mom died a little before that holiday 3 years ago. Of course it wasn't Covid times then, and they just headed south to SC and skipped Easter that year! She was also telling me of the movie with Tim Allen and Jamie Curtis, where they try to do just that..."Christmas with the Kranks" based on the book "Skipping Christmas." I'd like to just "take off" somewhere, but we will see on that. But NOTHING is the same this year, and I'm happy to skip it all. No decorating...and I'm fine with it, not sad. I feel free just anticipating it!! Granted, Christmas Eve, being Christian, I will say some prayers, watch a televised mass. But the commercialism and "traditions" are a big pass for me this year, as we all redefine our "new normals."

So....YOU DO YOU. God Bless you...prayers for peace and healing to you.

gidgetgh · ‎03-09-2010

@amyb wrote:
@violann wrote:
@gidgetgh - The virus has been teaching me a fondness for the expression "You be YOU". Allow yourself WHATEVER feels right for whatever minute you're in from today until July 23, 2021.

Thinking of you........
To @gidgetgh So sorry for your loss, I feel for you. I agree wholeheartedly with @violann here and I've been feeling exactly the same. You go ahead and do life and the holiday however you feel right doing so right now...I think 2020 turning everything upside down has made me feel the same.

I lost my dear mom also in 'April due to Covid..and also have a very small extended family left. I decided the other day when visiting with my cousin I am closest to...I'm skipping Christmas! She said Yes! That it was exactly what she and her girls did with Easter when her mom died a little before that holiday 3 years ago. Of course it wasn't Covid times then, and they just headed south to SC and skipped Easter that year! She was also telling me of the movie with Tim Allen and Jamie Curtis, where they try to do just that..."Christmas with the Kranks" based on the book "Skipping Christmas." I'd like to just "take off" somewhere, but we will see on that. But NOTHING is the same this year, and I'm happy to skip it all. No decorating...and I'm fine with it, not sad. I feel free just anticipating it!! Granted, Christmas Eve, being Christian, I will say some prayers, watch a televised mass. But the commercialism and "traditions" are a big pass for me this year, as we all redefine our "new normals."
So....YOU DO YOU. God Bless you...prayers for peace and healing to you.

@amyb - I'm so sorry to read about the loss of your mom.

As for Christmas, I've already talked to two friends who I have exchanged gifts with for years and asked that we stop. I still have to contact two others. I still want to exchange with my family and 2 best friends as those friends and I have exchanged for 50 years.

i have donated probably 98% of my Christmas decorations. I will spend the day with my sister and her family but Thanksgiving, I plan to stay home. I'm still grieving very deeply for my husband and the holidays just are not on my radar. At all. Could not care less.

Take care of yourself @amyb

Why is it, when I have a 50/50 guess at something, I'm always 100% wrong?

lynnie61 · ‎04-28-2010

Well we have three months to go......but I want to see my dad both holidays. We will be masked and distancing, but we missed everything like everyone else this year. I’ve seen him Christmas Eve for all my 59 years, so unless someone is sick, I am seeing him, even if it is for a few hours.

I have seen him recently but it’s been outside on the deck. We have a very small family, and we have been extra careful all these months. But hope we can make it happen. It’s my favorite day of the year.

wagirl · ‎03-09-2010

Absolutely not !!!!!! Not until this virus thing is not such a thing---and I expect it will be a "thing" for a few more years----will stay home. No holiday or family traditions are important enough for me to risk dying-----we talk all the time anyway and we will adjust to the situation--thank god we don't live in FL---we prob will be dead by xmas-------

ScrapHappy · ‎03-28-2010

I must admit that even I have been contemplating going to see family over Thanksgiving. We live in Georgia and they live in NJ, both me and my husband's family. This November will be one year since we been with them. Both our Mothers are getting up there in age. We've been very careful during this pandemic and I been thinking (in my head only)....should we go? Trying to rule with my head, not my heart.