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Last night, around 10:30pm, we get a message from our aunt.
Our cousin's boyfriend ("friend") is COVID+, and our uncle went to visit cousin & bf the day before yesterday, unmasked. They're all double-vaxxed, but just to be safe...
The Sheriff of Nottingham got his wish: Christmas got cancelled.
The day was basically going to be us (me and the Bs, parentals), uncle & aunt, cousin & bf, cousin and cuz-in-law and their four kids. Cousin & CIL and their fam live down south - about 50 minutes drive across the city. They decided to stay home - they also have CIL's mum, and someone else staying with them (a single mum). Cousin & BF are isolating, so are uncle & aunt, and we had Christmas Eve lunch with the parentals yesterday. So cancelling made sense rather than trying to relocate.
Tomorrow was going to be parentals, sistren and I, and stepbro-J and stepSIL-J, who are pregnant and were due on the 23rd. This afternoon ~3pm, baby started moving. So they might have a Christmas baby, but they'll still be in hospital for another couple of days (here in Australia, I think they keep you for at least three days). And with cases on the rise, hospitals have changed up the visiting options. So...no hospital visits this year. If they even want us to visit. (We are not quite the 'red-headed stepchildren' in the scenario, but out of all the family, we are probably the farthest branch, and the one that is last on J's list.)
The gist of it is that lunch tomorrow is still on, but without the people that we really wanted to see. *sigh*
I feel like fate, the universe, God, doesn't want us to get to know SSIL-J. J&J started dating during the pandemic, we didn't meet her until around Christmas last year, they were married in Jan. Then they go pregnant. I was going to visit them out west in August...and then Sydney/NSW went into lockdown. I was hoping to see them when they got to Sydney...and then they were busy. And then I was hoping to see them tomorrow...and the baby is coming.
IDK. Maybe it's all pointless: they're a decade younger than me, I'm the spinster stepsis, the person that nobody has ever asked to godmother a kid, not someone that people particularly want their kids to emulate - at least, not in my circles where people have kids...
Anyway, this is the first Christmas in all my 45 years where I haven't had somewhere to be on Christmas Day. I know there are people who do this as a matter of course, year after year, but it's a new experience for me. Not entirely a bad one, but...I rather like Christmas for the people and the food.
Our cousin's boyfriend ("friend") is COVID+, and our uncle went to visit cousin & bf the day before yesterday, unmasked. They're all double-vaxxed, but just to be safe...
The Sheriff of Nottingham got his wish: Christmas got cancelled.
The day was basically going to be us (me and the Bs, parentals), uncle & aunt, cousin & bf, cousin and cuz-in-law and their four kids. Cousin & CIL and their fam live down south - about 50 minutes drive across the city. They decided to stay home - they also have CIL's mum, and someone else staying with them (a single mum). Cousin & BF are isolating, so are uncle & aunt, and we had Christmas Eve lunch with the parentals yesterday. So cancelling made sense rather than trying to relocate.
Tomorrow was going to be parentals, sistren and I, and stepbro-J and stepSIL-J, who are pregnant and were due on the 23rd. This afternoon ~3pm, baby started moving. So they might have a Christmas baby, but they'll still be in hospital for another couple of days (here in Australia, I think they keep you for at least three days). And with cases on the rise, hospitals have changed up the visiting options. So...no hospital visits this year. If they even want us to visit. (We are not quite the 'red-headed stepchildren' in the scenario, but out of all the family, we are probably the farthest branch, and the one that is last on J's list.)
The gist of it is that lunch tomorrow is still on, but without the people that we really wanted to see. *sigh*
I feel like fate, the universe, God, doesn't want us to get to know SSIL-J. J&J started dating during the pandemic, we didn't meet her until around Christmas last year, they were married in Jan. Then they go pregnant. I was going to visit them out west in August...and then Sydney/NSW went into lockdown. I was hoping to see them when they got to Sydney...and then they were busy. And then I was hoping to see them tomorrow...and the baby is coming.
IDK. Maybe it's all pointless: they're a decade younger than me, I'm the spinster stepsis, the person that nobody has ever asked to godmother a kid, not someone that people particularly want their kids to emulate - at least, not in my circles where people have kids...
Anyway, this is the first Christmas in all my 45 years where I haven't had somewhere to be on Christmas Day. I know there are people who do this as a matter of course, year after year, but it's a new experience for me. Not entirely a bad one, but...I rather like Christmas for the people and the food.
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I'm glad you got to spend Christmas with your brother and relatives.