APPLETON, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – Spending time with the ones you love is how many chose to celebrate Christmas, but it’s not the only way.
One family went out, still in their PJ’s.
“What a great way to celebrate, and all we had to do is get out of bed,” said Stephenie Muscavitchvanevery of Green Bay. “And brush our teeth!”
…headed to a movie theater.
“We had our plan to go sledding but, because of the weather, we had to think of something else, and this is an excellent place, so we’re going to do a movie marathon today,” said Muscavitchvanevery.
This is the first year the group is taking in some movies at the theater, but it may not be the last, weather permitting, of course.
“We really love sledding but, if sledding doesn’t work out, we can always go to the movies!” Muscavitchvanevery said.
And they still get to do it, celebrating together.
But not everyone has someone to celebrate Christmas with.
“Imagine you’re up there in age, your friends are passing off and your kids are all gone what do these people have?” said coordinator of We Care Meals Ed Rathsack. “They don’t have nobody visiting them.”
Rathsack tells FOX 11 that’s where Christmas dinner at Riverview Gardens was born.
“What we’re trying to do is breach that loneliness, by offering them a meal and companionship.”
Rathsack has spent about his last 30 Christmases putting the event together.
Over 200 volunteers also celebrated the holiday with strangers, all to make sure they’d have someone else at the table to eat their Christmas dinner with.
“You can hear people sitting and talking and enjoying this part of the day,” Rathsack said.
Showing that there are all kinds of ways to celebrate the holiday.
