Our monthly question- What are your plans for Christmas Eve? Have they changed from what they had been before?

The same thing we do every night. Try to take over the world.

You plan out much further than I do.

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Plan is to be at my in-laws. We may have to bring one of our cats with us, as she has kidney failure and we have to give subcutaneous fluids every other day. If she's still around by then (we hope).

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The same thing we do every night. Try to take over the world.

hard to think about Christmas when its 91 degrees out here. Feels like a loooooong ways away.

Yeah. COVID is a @$%#*. Parts of my in law family has been exposed. Other parts have got it. The 4 year old still has symptoms almost 2 weeks out. His parents are battling it right now. My guess? Hunker down for another virtual Xmas. With a healthy warm mug of depression (my wife. I’m fine with a calm-ish Xmas).

Every since our kid started playing flute at Christmas Eve Mass, my wife has helped with the children's choir. Our kid is long gone from the church but my wife still does it. Each year she swears it will be the last year, including last year's abbreviated version. And she always caves when the director looks at her with a hang-dog look and asks her to please do it again. So, we'll be at church on Christmas Eve, my wife directing the children's choir and me sitting around wondering just when she'll stop doing it.

Home with my wife. Our two kids will be many miles away and no grandkids, yet.

However, my wife retires on Dec. 31 after which we head to Florida, Texas and Mexico City, returning home around April 1 when the snow should be gone.

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Saint Cloud, Minnesota, where the weather is wonderful even when it isn't.

Hmmm. I think we’ll be avoiding family except for my sister and hers, who may be here from across the country. They are careful and would be okay with something outdoors. My in laws are… not. The kids are often quarantining, which is too close a call for me. So, mostly another just the two of us Christmas.