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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsOnly 5 months until Christmas!!!!
Oh this is going to be a special one. Half the retailers will be closed and well be elbowing our way through Karens.
MontanaMama
(23,314 posts)kimbutgar
(21,148 posts)Zoonart
(11,866 posts)except via FaceTime, since Christmas 2019. I wonder if we will be able to visit this Chirstmas/Hannukah. This is the saddest thing of all for me. They are young women, 12 and 15 and this is the longest time we've been apart since I held them in my arms as newborns.
They live two states away and it would be no problem to make the drive before covid. Now that drive is a minefield of risks and they themselves have not been isolating.
Skittles
(153,160 posts)because we moved overseas sometimes, I would not see my grandparents on one side for years, then my grandparents on the other side for years - I could not talk to them either, way too expensive.......I would send them snail mail, and draw the outline of my hand on the back of the envelope. Now at work, I instant message / Skype with people all over the world.
Ohiogal
(31,999 posts)We should have a new President-Elect by then ..... the best Christmas gift of all!
secondwind
(16,903 posts)underpants
(182,803 posts)House of Roberts
(5,170 posts)I'm not in the store long enough to care about 'the Karens'.
Bayard
(22,073 posts)Don't remind me!
Dem2theMax
(9,651 posts)What is this 'Christmas' thing you speak of?
Seriously, I haven't celebrated Christmas since my parents passed away. I have no family left. And I'm sure as heck not doing all that work for myself. 3 days to put the tree up, at least three days to take it down. No thanks. No more Christmas at my house. I'm Scrooge.
Skittles
(153,160 posts)but I do donate to "Toys for Tots" and fulfill the occasional requests for children on the xmas trees in some stores