{"id":6723,"date":"2020-12-12T22:46:30","date_gmt":"2020-12-13T05:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/?p=6723"},"modified":"2025-05-23T14:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T21:43:08","slug":"how-our-family-is-doing-a-remote-covid-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/how-our-family-is-doing-a-remote-covid-christmas","title":{"rendered":"How Our Family is Doing a Remote COVID Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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We live on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada and like everyone else we\u2019ve been dealing with the Pandemic. We\u2019ve stayed home, ordered our groceries online, been super careful going out to shop, or to the library, making sure we use a mask, sanitize our hands a LOT. And it\u2019s been OK. Really. We\u2019ve managed and more importantly, we\u2019re still healthy. We\u2019re so thankful for all the health care workers, all the people who are still working to keep us in food and everything we need. We\u2019re especially happy that our provincial government has taken the Pandemic seriously and taken care of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Luckily we\u2019re both artists, busy in our studios, or doing art research, or gardening, so we haven\u2019t been bored. We have each other so we haven\u2019t been lonely. We don\u2019t take any of that for granted, especially now. We have a family that is all grown up now. We\u2019ve kept in touch with the ones that live in another city by Skype for years. In fact, our grandson really enjoys calling up and asking. \u201cWant to visit? We\u2019ll fire up the Skype!\u201d It\u2019s been a huge help over the years, in staying close, just having that visual connection, a boon in a Pandemic. With the family in town, we\u2019ve kept in touch by phone and by keeping our distance when we do see them. And again, it\u2019s been fine, not a big deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But now, well, Christmas is almost here. We do love the baking and the getting together with a big turkey, lots of goodies and crazy presents. But this year, we\u2019re all agreed, it has to be different, so<\/span> we\u2019re going to do a COVID Christmas! And it\u2019s going to be remote<\/em>! All of us together but via Skype.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plus, it\u2019s going to be just Will and I, at home, just the two of us on the day. So we\u2019ve actually made some adjustments. Kind of toned it all down. We\u2019re still baking, but a bit less than usual, just the most favourite goodies and we\u2019ll be dropping off some of those to our local family, very carefully, of course. Usually we do lots of local shopping for Christmas at thrift stores, finding vintage and used treasures. Our usual recycled gifts. But not this year, just a bit of online for the family out of province. We\u2019re still having a turkey, but this year it\u2019ll be a little turkey breast with all the trimmings just for two. Indulging in a few treats for ourselves as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We\u2019re reminding ourselves, it\u2019s only for this year, this Christmas. NOT forever<\/em><\/span>. We\u2019ve decided we\u2019re going to make the best of it and still make it special.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As for all the lanterns in this post\u2026 well, they\u2019re another way we\u2019re scaling down a bit. Not dragging out ALL the lights, just enough. These actually have been languishing in the greenhouse, found at a free box at a garage sale years ago. They were a bit torn and worn, but we did some artistic repair with glue and coloured tissue this week. Looks pretty cheerful too. My favourite is the green one above. The tears become lovely little lines in the random abstract composition. As for the rest of the decorations, most of them are staying packed since we\u2019re planning a natural d\u00e9cor with greenery from the garden arranged in wreaths and vases. Looking forward to it, too. A nice relaxing<\/em> Christmas. Hope you have a lovely Remote COVID Christmas too.<\/span> Take care but keep having fun.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We live on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada and like everyone else we\u2019ve been dealing with the Pandemic. We\u2019ve stayed home, ordered our groceries online, been super careful going out to shop, or to the library, making sure we use a mask, sanitize our hands a LOT. And it\u2019s been OK. Really. We\u2019ve managed and Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[430,1193,1],"tags":[1217,1218,1219],"class_list":["post-6723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-christmas-decor","category-musings","tag-christmas-lanterns","tag-covid-christmas","tag-remote-covid-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6723"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6962,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6723\/revisions\/6962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}