Over the past 5 years I have always worked over Christmas. It was the only holiday the company accidentally gives people off that work on shift. Being an on shift engineer that included me. To get people to come into work they offered 3.5 times pay. That's almost a full week, and a great excuse to not see the family.
Now that I am laid off, I really don't know what I will do. My mother's side of the family decided that my mother and I were not really family since we live, "Up in the cities". I am thinking of swinging by my other grandmother's place for a few, maybe have some coffee and a slice of pie or something. She usually spends at least a few hours every day at the McDonald's with all the other folks that are still somewhat mobile. She will be bored to tears with out them, so I think I might swing on over.