In light of Omicron, how are you doing Christmas this year?

Mr P is due to have major surgery on the 23rd, started isolation for 2 weeks today, so, a very quiet Christmas for us. Family too far away but I will be doing zoom meetings on the day. Still not sure if visiting DH will be allowed, fingers crossed that we will celebrate when DH comes home. Even if things were " normal" our family are still not sure about getting together, another year of wait & see how things pan out, I'd rather be safe than sorry. Best wishes to all who are having health problems. Hope 2022 will be better for all us.

There will be six of us on Christmas Day but I’m insisting on LF tests beforehand. I think that’s necessary really if we all want to be together.

We’ve all had two vaccines plus the booster, so getting together with adult children, their partners and the grandchildren this Christmas. Had enough of all the restrictions now, especially as the omicron has very mild symptoms and no deaths.
Time to get back to some sort of normality.

I work at out local uni , today an e mail came cancelling all the planned festive activities and for people to work from home from now on . It might affect our family get togethers ?

Just the two of us and a facetime with the grandchildren. One dd hoping to visit the week before but it all depends on tests.

Even if the government bring in restrictions I doubt anyone, sorry most of us, won’t take any notice after the No 10 Christmas party and the one rule for us and another for them.

Four of us have booked a Christmas Day lunch at a local restaurant. This was booked months ago.
Now I’m not sure what with this new variant.

If we don’t go, there isn’t a refund policy. So I’m going to risk it. Will wear mask until I actually eat my lunch.
My Dd says ‘ But Mum, we have all been jabbed’.
But it seems people are still catching this virus.
Do we take our chances.?

Answering Germanshepherdsmum I would say that as we have been meeting up with our family from time to time since the last lockdown ended spending Christmas with a small number of family members is nothing new. We will test beforehand. Until the government stops absolutely every other form of socialising such as sporting events, concerts, theatres, parties etc we won’t stop seeing our family cautiously and in small gatherings.

The same as usual - i.e. just the two of us (and three cats)!

We now live a long way from any family members (we moved over 700 miles away), but we only saw people at Christmas, when we delivered presents! This year, they will all be posted.

I've bought new decorations, and we have stocked up with all we need. I'm thinking of inviting the only neighbour I have met at our new location (an elderly lady named Audrey), but will check with her when I've finished writing the Christmas Cards. She may have family, for all I know.

"Foxgloveandroses"
I had Covid-19 beginning of October. I am 69 and considered obese. I was fine. Hardly any symptoms at all but I presume it was Delta. I missed all the petrol fiasco rank goodness.

I'm going to my youngest daughters for Christmas Eve until lunchtime Boxing Day because I'm on my own this year. If things change on 16th she has said to pack my bags and go anyway for the duration as that will only be 6. My local daughter will have to feed the cat.

Will be doing exactly as planned, there will be 8 of us. We are all vaccinated & generally careful. We are going to have to live with Covid & for the sake of my mental health I need to get on & lead my normal life .

Going to have a great christmas with friends and family this cowering behind closed doors and open windows is ridiculous! Enough is enough!

Be alone as usual nothing new at least last year a lot were also alone. Fed up with acquaintances telling me what a wonderful time they will be having

Restrictions didn't make any difference to us last xmas and they won't this xmas either.

Don't assume we're doing anything wrong. We won't be. Christmas is always quiet in our house because quiet and off the beaten track is what we do.

We will be at home in our bubble of three. On Christmas Eve we are going to a local small Italian restaurant. We have all had three vaccinations. We shall do lateral flow to be sure and just have a quiet, boozy, game playing, eating time. Luckily nobody in the family has health issues so we count ourselves lucky. Happy to go for long walks and just have a peaceful family time. Take care everybody

Doing exactly the same as I’ve done for the last 16 years since my husband died and that’s going to my db and sil for Boxing Day!!!

rosie1959

I think it highly unlikely families will have any restrictions of the Christmas period and even if there are I suspect many will ignore them
We have all battled with this over the last year and a half most of us are double vaccinated if not tripled there comes a point where we have to get on with life
I see my family regularly every week several times what difference does Christmas make We are adults and can make our own choices

Thank goodness for a rational post. 38 countries with the new variant and no deaths according to the WHO. Enjoy your Christmas.

We’re going to Sweden to spend Christmas with our DD & family - well hoping to! Our flight was cancelled last year the day before.Enjoy yours whatever you do xxc

First case of Omicron has been diagnosed in Leicestershire and, to no-one's surprise, it is in either our small town or its neighbour. (They're always lumped together as they are under the same council.) The infection rate was bad here at the height of the epidemic.

We are hopefully having Christmas Day with DD2, her partner and three kids. Her ex-partner will be there too, as he has nowhere else to go. He is the dad of her two eldest girls, who like to see him at Christmas. On Boxing Day, all of them (including ex-partner) will come to us. Lateral flow tests for everyone on both days, before anyone goes anywhere.

If it's cancelled, or if the death count shoots up and it ought to be cancelled, then it's back to Christmas via Zoom. That's how we celebrate with DD1 and family in the USA, every year.

We won't be going anywhere crowded if we can help it. DH will have to nip to the supermarket a few days before Christmas to get stuff like fruit and veggies, cream, etc, but he will try to avoid the crowds if possible. I rather wish I had booked a delivery online.

Christmas day just me and partner going to a pub for lunch; works for us as he loves a Christmas dinner but I am vegetarian so used to cook dinner for him but its a faff doing it for 1 person just as easy and cheap going out to eat. Plus they do a delicious vegetarian alternative. Boxing day we are all being well going to my daughters with my other daughter there as well with their families plus a visit to a cemetery to place flowers

We are on our own again this year, because my husband is now having chemo. We had a visit from close family last week and he now has a terrible cold and cough so we are not risking any visits now till the end of January when his treatment ends. So quiet Christmases are the norm for us now.

When DD1 does the cooking, it's got to be major to cancel that! There could be anything from 10 - 20 of us, depends who she invite. She's much more organised than I am. But i have some special grub in the freezer, just in case.

Just small family gathering at mine, all been vaxed. We’ll all do lateral flow tests before meeting. Definitely no party of 30 even if we do have wine and cheese-I’ll leave that to the government

I think it highly unlikely families will have any restrictions of the Christmas period and even if there are I suspect many will ignore them
We have all battled with this over the last year and a half most of us are double vaccinated if not tripled there comes a point where we have to get on with life
I see my family regularly every week several times what difference does Christmas make We are adults and can make our own choices

Even though fully vaccinated with booster we will be on our own. No trains, aeroplanes disappointingly. DH undergoing chemo since August hopefully finishing end Feb. Been advised absolutely no travelling or mixing as lateral flow tests are so unreliable no meeting up with family. Same as last Christmas really.