Trying to Get into the Christmas Spirit...

Oh you are building memories to compare every year from now on! In a few years you will all sit back on Christmas Day and say "remember that year we all had strep throat? Wasnt that crazy!" You wont have the energy or feel like doing a lot of extra stuff this year so stay in jammies all day, and sip tea, and relax and just recover. All that extra stuff isnt important. Just be a family together and know that next year will be better. I look back and know that most any Christmas is better than the one when I was pregnant and had a kidney stone. Merry Christmas.

I love your plans! I think they're great! You may not be able to work up feelings of the great happiness one ideally associates with the holy day, but yours will be a quieter happiness, being thankful for your husband and your beautiful children, even when they're ill. Let tomorrow be a quieter celebration if it needs to be, and smile, rather than crying. The Year Everyone was Sick may turn out to be the Christmas your children remember twenty years from now!

snuggle, watch movies. eat cookies. works for us : )

Hi! Can I come to your house, it sounds lovely, except for the sick part. I know how hard it is, we have no one and I miss all of it. Warm the car up, gather some snacks and go looking for lights, that will make everyone happy. We do it every year, it is our tradition...

It's okay. It's just another day albeit a special one.
Relax, take care of yourselves & be with each other.
That is number one priority.
Btw, if you make hot tea w/honey & lemon it coats the throat & will help
ease the pain w/strep throat. Sorry for what you are going through.

Your plan: snuggle all day tomorrow in your robes, fuzzy slippers, fire in fireplace or heat on, have hot cocoa w/marshmellows drape a candy cane over the mug, lay around the living room on the couch or pillows w/blankets, just hang out, watch Christmas tv, have leftovers for lunch, take pictures, write a short 5 line poem about your being together just for fun.
Play cards, watch a famous old Christmas show.
Be happy & thankful: you're alive & well & all together.
I wish you love & happiness & a great New Year.
Best wishes! :)

This might feel good on the sore throats and is easy to make.

WASSAIL

2 qts. apple juice
1 pt. cranberry juice
3/4 c. sugar
2 cinnamon sticks
1 tsp. whole allspice
1 sm. orange studded with whole cloves

Put all ingredients in crockpot. Cover and cook on low heat for 4 to 6 hours. Serve warm from crockpot.

I hope you are all feeling better soon!

With the exception of being sick, your plans sound perfect to me!

Oh my goodness! I am so sorry you and your family is sick! I am in a similar boat with not feeling christmas like this year---its been a really rough time for our family. But...I hope that you have fun at the nativity and have you gone out to look at christmas lights? That is always a fun tradition in our family. best wishes, have lots of popcicles and hang in there!

M