LogFAQs > #946871457

Our usual "big dinner" is just the immediate family. There's a good chance that won't happen, though, since I've got one sister in London (which just locked down pretty hard again and probably won't be travel-safe by Christmas), and another in Montreal (which isn't locked down as hard, but Quebec in general is a bit of a mess and travelling isn't a great idea). That means it'll probably just be my mother and me, as far as family goes (and possibly her boyfriend, but his brother on the other side of the country has been diagnosed with metastatic melanoma and therefore probably won't see another Christmas, so as much as travelling isn't a great idea, I think he's justified in doing so).

My girlfriend, on the other hand, would have been flying to be with her mom in Toronto, then going to her grandmother's place in Montreal along with family from several other places for a larger gathering. That tradition had already be scaled down quite a bit after her grandfather died a few years ago and her grandmother moved from their good-sized house into a smaller, assisted-living apartment, but it's definitely not happening in any regard this year. She's also accepted that she won't be going to Toronto (not as bad as Montreal, but still not doing well right now), and will instead be spending Christmas here with my mother and I. So that's different.

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