Just sending Merry Christmas wishes to all - (fine by me if you don’t celebrate the day - still wishing you a good day). 
If 2020 isn’t your preference, may 2021 be better. 
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Merry Christmas!
So far, I’m the only one up at our house. So different that when the kids were young.
Wishing everyone the best.
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Merry Christmas, everyone. Yes, it’s odd to have to wake up the “children” to open presents! I’m thankful our oldest and youngest are with us. Celebrating with the middle son in Beirut via Zoom later today. 
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We all held together over a tough year. Best wishes to all.
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Merry Christmas! It’s been weird (and kinda sad) to wake up without any kids in the house the last couple years. But they live in the area, so that is normal. But not to have family over Christmas Eve was sad. And no in person church. And just dropping presents off at D’s instead of spending the day with her & SIL. And H’s dad is in hospice, many hours away. But … I do believe in the reason for the season, so I am trying to keep that in my mind and heart. I wish peace to all.
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11:15am here in NY.
S17, S19, and S21 still sleeping.
Gone are the days of 6:00am Christmas morning hysteria. 
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Merry Christmas to all and our best wishes for an even better Christmas 2021.
I have over 20 years of video of our family so I spent time last night stitching together a compilation of Christmas mornings past. Watching that video now with w as kids still sleeping. Nice!
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Yesterday may very well be the first time our entire family spent Christmas Eve (and day) together…represented by country (alphabetically) Australia, England, US & Wales - of course all 10 families were on Zoom, but it was a delight to see and hang out with everyone.
Merry and Happy to all!
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I am alone but Zoomed for three hours with kids who are all over the place. We tried to be festive. I put gift wrap and little lights on my couch for background 
Mother’s assisted living has 10 residents and 11 staff with COVID. Staffing is a huge problem. My mother has called several times. She cannot leave her room. I dropped off a lot of little presents to try to cheer her up but she opened them on the wrong day.
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Quiet Christmas here. Spent much of the day phoning various members. I have great hope for the coming year.
3 of our family members have received the vaccine, 2 got it Christmas Eve. Hopefully all of us will have it by this time next year.
I’m happy that everyone is healthy, that is a great blessing. My D’s boyfriend, his sister is sick with Covid. Thinking of her and wishing her well.
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It was just H, S and me here. We have never lived close to family so that was not a lot different than our usual Christmas. We live streamed Christmas church service last evening. After opening gifts this morning we ate brunch, then took S to the airport. He is flying to see D and SIL (none of them has much contact with others) for a week before returning to London.
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Our youngest (23) made Christmas Dinner. Homemade gnocchi, mushroom, spinach, Sea Trout, homemade baguettes, broccoli celery soup, cranberry curd tart, and eggplant tapenade, along with plenty of alcohol. Sometimes it’s nice when they grow up.
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Hey @MaineLonghorn, been thinking of your son and his GF. Hope they are safe and well.
We all loved the slow day! No rushing around to get ready to go somewhere, or to entertain. We’ve never had a Christmas Day when it was just the 4 of us taking it easy. Had a huge brunch at noon, everyone still in our PJ’s until 1. Had a huge dinner later.
We are all in food comas.
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We had a very nice, relaxing day. Oldest son and his wife are here with us as well as med school lad (who tested negative immediately prior to coming - not a guarantee, but certainly helpful). Both are here until mid or late January. That alone is a nice Christmas present as is having sold the two younger ponies we wanted to sell (Christmas presents themselves to others).
Since oldest streams games on the internet (his job), he and his wife (tech support) were working until close to noon. Then we ate our feast, opened presents (we only get/give one per person, so this doesn’t take long), played games, and watched a couple of taped TV shows.
While they were working the other three of us took a walk in the cold, windy morning. It had been 60 the night before, was 32 during our walk. Tons of earthworms were on the road dying. H and I picked them up getting about a pint containers worth. This gave our chickens a Christmas feast too.
I think it also gives me the “weirdest mother” award in that I would look at earthworms on the road on Christmas morning and opt to collect them all - every last one we saw - oodles - for our chickens even on a cold, blustery day. My guys are apparently used to such things, because they didn’t say a word to me - just pitched in.
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I also took a picture of the first Christmas tree we had after moving to our farm. It’s all grown up now after putting it out there over 20 years ago. (We get living trees most years, then replant them.)
The ornament we opted to go with this year. We add one new one every year.
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We had a quiet day to ourselves, but we did make most of our traditional meal. The rib was not as rare as we usually like it (I think DH had a bit too much champagne at the grill), but everything tasted wonderful, and cooking helped take our minds off our son not being home. He did FaceTime us for about an hour in the early afternoon. He and his GF were cooking a very similar meal and seemed to be having a good time together. We just made the best of it and did not convey our sadness to him. Later, we watched a movie and went to bed a bit early. I’m still feeling down today. So happy the vaccines are here and looking with hope to normal holidays next year.
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Hope you all had a great Christmas. We had a lovely time, despite what you’ll read shortly.
Ours was much the same as usual (the four of us, no family near at all), except this year, we zoomed with hubby’s family across the pond and recorded a video for my non-tech savvy parents. Phone calls too.
Both my parents (dad and stepmom) have Covid, for the last two weeks. Fingers crossed, they are ok’ish. More good days now, though mom wasn’t feeling great yesterday. Given they both have major health issues, it’s a miracle they haven’t needed to be hospitalized.
My mom died this spring (not Covid) and hubby’s mom died of Covid a few days later. This has been a hideous year, to say the least. Can I swear on CC? I know I can’t, but I would love to say some very unladylike things about 2020. Despite this annus horribilis, there has been some good and for that, I will be grateful.
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Very nice thread @Creekland, I kissed it yesterday.
The glass half full notion of the day like @conmama said was that for the first time I. 40 + years we did not have to rush and leave the House and we took our time all day and even did a mid day walk in the snow.
Truth be told, going forward I wish we could do our extended family celebration on the 26th so we could have the best of both worlds. But after this year I will not be picky - being together is being together!
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@abasket, the 26th is a fantastic idea. We typically get together with my BIL and his family. However, he is di of rom his kids mother, and one boy is getting married. Now they have 3 families to juggle. Having our get together might be welcomed by all! After we discovered how much we liked this past Xmas day, it could be the new tradition. But it’s DH’s family, so there’s that.
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