MatchboxVagabond wrote:
skibum wrote:
Stay and meet with them virtually via something like zoom, whatsapp, or facetime. That way, you stay in your comfortable environment, you get all the rest you need, you control how much time you spend with them and you still get to enjoy being with them and sharing the holidays together. Sometimes my sister and I have dinner together that way even though we live in different states. We get to be together without having to travel.
That may be the thing to do. Trying to travel at this time of the year when a lot of folks are already depleted can be a significant ask. I hadn't really thought about it, but I've got a relatively nice webcam that has a tripod mount and if I still had relatives that were a significant distance away from me, I could set that up with a monitor for such get-togethers.
It works really well. When my cousin passed away a year and a half ago, we did the funeral like that because so much of the family is in different countries. We had about twenty people together on the video call. It was so wonderful. I was able to see and talk to some of my other cousins and aunts that I had not seen in decades.
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