Welcome to Famous at Home in five minutes.

Practical insights for creating a family of connection, celebration, and purpose.

You know, this Christmas is going to look different for a lot of us.

Every year we celebrate Christmas with my big Canadian family, and we have a house full,

with grandma and grandpa, aunts, uncles, and cousins filling up every room.

It is the time of year we look forward to all year long.

But since the borders remain closed, we're not sure we're going to get to see any of our family this Christmas.

We recently sat down with our kids and we had to deliver

the hard news to them. At first our kids tried to come up with solutions and then as

the reality sunk in they started to cry. And honestly that's exactly what I did too. I

protested and I tried to come up with solutions only to realize there were none, not this

year.

Likely we'll all be grieving something this Christmas,

the loss of a favorite Christmas concert,

or that maybe Christmas parties will look very different,

or maybe something as silly as not being able

to see your kids sit on Santa's lap.

But it's not silly when it comes to grieving something

that we've lost.

In fact, grieving is necessary for us to find joy on

the other side. Yeah, we knew we had to all process what we were feeling. So we sat down one night

with our kids and we just asked them to draw a picture of it. We talked about our hard feelings,

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