We did a 100% virtual baby shower for one of my best friends in May and it was lovely. Can you suggest that to whoever is hosting your DIL's shower?
Inara: So, explain to me again why Zoe wasn't in the dress? Mal: Tactics, woman. Needed her in the back. 'Sides, those soft cotton dresses feel kinda nice. It's the whole... air-flow.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
lisah - Sep 17, 2020 5:19:44 am PDT #26298 of 30019
Punishingly Intricate
Calli - Sep 17, 2020 5:37:50 am PDT #26299 of 30019
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I don't usually see family over Thanksgiving, although I will miss seeing the group of friends who usually get together. But I strongly doubt I'll be going to my sister's for Christmas, and that's going to suck. I've often wished to not spend the Christmas season at airports, but I'd rather hoped to resolve that by moving north, not by a global pandemic and hundreds of thousands of dead people.
Laura - Sep 17, 2020 5:41:44 am PDT #26300 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
My SIL had a drive by baby shower, and my niece had a virtual one. I did point those out since they participated in both, but it was rejected.
-t - Sep 17, 2020 5:54:00 am PDT #26301 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That must be hard, msbelle.
Consuela - Sep 17, 2020 5:58:15 am PDT #26302 of 30019
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I'm sorry, msbelle.
My sister has moved up her retirement date and now only has 3 weeks of work left. I'm pretty jealous, I have to admit.
Laura - Sep 17, 2020 6:31:45 am PDT #26303 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
My sister retired in February this year. She planned on being able to go places and do things. Yeah. A couple weeks after she retired they went WFH. She has regrets.
Jesse - Sep 17, 2020 6:32:03 am PDT #26304 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ooh, that is rough, msbelle.
I am also proactively sad and/or worried about holidays, although I just heard the amazing plan my church's music director has come up with for a pre-recorded service that is as over-the-top as the in-person services usually are. But what about seeing family?? I'm afraid there's just no way.
Unless we all actually quarantine in advance? That could actually work, maybe.
Hil R. - Sep 17, 2020 6:42:04 am PDT #26305 of 30019
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
For Thanksgiving, my family's plan is that we all quarantine in advance (which we're basically all doing anyway). Still trying to figure out the safest way to get from Cincinnati to NJ, though -- I'll probably have to stop at a hotel for one night in the middle of the drive, though I might be able to do the drive in one day.
sj - Sep 17, 2020 7:06:52 am PDT #26306 of 30019
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
ltc is going to freak out about Thanksgiving and Christmas. I'm trying not to think about it. She's home with a slight fever today, no sign that it is Covid, so I'm trying to stay calm.
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 17, 2020 7:40:16 am PDT #26307 of 30019
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
We had a BIG Thanksgiving gathering for my dad's side of the family in Kentucky last year, so I think we'll be good just doing Mom & me this year. Christmas with my cosuins is most likely on as usual, we'll just be careful. (Luckily the two households with children each have a smart medical professional, so I think they'll be as safe as humanly possible to share a meal with.)