What Would You Do?

[ATierTwoChristmas]

Name change, long time poster.

Family Christmas

We have been invited to my siblings for Boxing Day, however in line with government restrictions i don't know what to do! At my siblings it would be their family, my other sibling and their family plus my parents, as i understand it the rules are 3 households, myself and my family are the biggest (we have more children)
AIBU to say no because it's against the rules?
Thanks

What I would do is not post on Mumsnet because you will be told categorically that it is beyond irresponsible to even consider a family Christmas.

What I would do is decide myself whether I was comfortable with the arrangements and say yes or no depending on that. If you are not comfortable with going against the rules, don't do it. If you are comfortable with going against the rules, then do. Simple.

I wouldn’t do it personally. If everyone ignores the rules this situation continues for longer. So deciding what you are comfortable with personally is not “ simple” because it has the potential to affect other people.
And I am not saying it’s beyond irresponsible to have a family Christmas , but people need to have some constraint

Nobody is saying "three families together are safe." There's going to be a rise in deaths after Christmas if too many people socialise. You have four households there - why not have two meeting in one house and two in another?

We are postponing the "big family Christmas" until the older members have had the vaccine.
Why can't you do a smaller Christmas event?

If I'm honest i would rather be at home just us, I'm not a rule breaker and don't want to start that!!
I however don't want to upset family

We're in the exact same situation and have said no. But this year I'm happy for the 6 of us to just do our own thing. The kids will be busy and happy no matter what and I don't have the stress of worrying someone will get sick last minute, or that someone will be symptomatic after the event.