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5 Cool Activities Any Family Can Do Absolutely Anywhere — Even During a COVID Christmas
“Rejoice! Rejoice!” — to quote a familiar Christmas carol
If you’re tired of restrictions, fear, and continual talk of the COVID crisis, take heart. If you think your Christmas will be different this year, you’re probably right, but you can still rejoice because “different” isn’t always bad. This year, without the traditional parties at restaurants, without Christmas open-houses, movie-escapades to the theaters for annual holiday releases, and without the unbridled bustling at shopping centers, you may think there’s nothing for your family to do this holiday season. But think again. To quote another familiar tune, “Don’t worry. Be happy.”
Here are five cool activities that any family can do absolutely anywhere, even now, during this unprecedented COVID Christmas.
1) Light Show Tour
When I was a little girl, my parents would stow their three daughters in the backseat of our old black Chevy. Fresh from a bath, wrapped in flannel jammies and smelling of talcum powder, we sat arranged by age, upright like crayons in a box, gazing out the frosty windows. Daddy would drive around taking his girls around our neighborhood, slowing cruising up and down every single street before…
