20 Hilarious Tweets About the Holidays This Year

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2020 has been a really weird one — a year parents and kids will remember forever. This time will be referenced in perpetuity as "remember that time when…" Luckily, the end of the year is just around the corner, and that means that we can interject some holiday joy into our lives.

While this year will be celebrated differently than others, we're thankful that fellow parents can tap into the strangeness of 2020 and harness that into humorous tweets. We could all use a good giggle. Even though there is so much that's changed in our lives this year, we can forever count on our kids being typical kids — global health crisis or not — and making life interesting.

So for anyone who needs a good laugh, here are 20 hilarious tweets about the holidays this year.

A Movie Come To Life

If this isn't 2020, we don't know what is. Can we all just get through the holidays this year and hope we get to push a reset button for 2021?

Christmas Is Whenever

One of the best things about having young kids for the holidays is they don't understand the concept of calendars quite yet. This means if someone wanted to have "Christmas" a few days after when everything goes on sale, they won't know.

Lower That Bar

See that holiday expectations bar? Move it a little lower. Now, move it even lower. And just a smidge more. There, that looks about 2020. Let's not make an already hard year even more stressful by adding a million holiday activities to do in the advent calendars this year. Call a spade a spade and let it go.

How Do Parents Do It?

Yes, it looks pretty to put our gifts under the tree early. But, for many parents, they get that doing so would be completely impractical. Why? The answer is one word: Kids.

Secure Some Joy

Advent calendars are one of the fun ways kids can count down until the holiday. It's a yearly tradition, but this year has been anything but normal, so we don't blame this kid one bit. Grab that joy while you can, kid!

Where Was the Thought?

Yes, we love it when the partner can help with planning for the holidays, but come on, there was no thought pattern happening with this gift. Expensive is not always better when moms are the ones having to hand-wash everything.

The Spirit

It's not really the best idea to rely on alcohol, especially when it's being used to help get away from stress, but, it can be a good laugh and, well, she's not lying about this.

No Budget

We're not sure this is exactly how this works, but we can see the thought process here. If there's no discussion, then it can go however mom wants it to go. Those are the unwritten rules — especially in 2020.

The Real Magic

We know that the holidays mean that things are full of magic, but TBH, they're often more stressful than not. When the kids are older, there's still some magic, but it's without all the pressure.

They Have a Point

As adults, we know that these stories don't make a whole lot of sense … but it's for the kids, not us, right? This all works well until we have to come up with a reason something doesn't make sense, on the fly, without letting a secret out.

Well, Who Knew?

This year, all that contempt we feel for the extended family members will be easier to handle. Thanks to Zoom, we can mute them or ourselves and just look away before we roll our eyes.

This Seems Inevitable

We have to spend so much energy trying to get all the gifts for our kids. This year, we have to plan even further ahead since there's a lot more online ordering. So, of course, the kids are doing to do this to us.

This Craft Turned Into a Lesson

Even if we don't think he should claim any dad points for this, we know it's going to be one of the highlights of his 2020. We will hear about it over and over again.

There's Prep Before the Holidays

This is one of those parenting things that happen that we never talk about. We all spend time purging those toys the kids never play with because we know we're just going to fill it up again at the holidays. But when we're all stuck together at home 24/7, there's hardly any time when we can be stealth about it.

We See Ya Mrs. Claus

At the holiday, all we ever hear about is Santa, but if it's anything like a real-life gift, we know who is really the one doing all the work. And they never get any credit, right moms?

The Yearly Argument

It's one of those conversations that never go anywhere. It's like pineapple on pizza or eating macaroni with a spoon and not a fork. One person is right, and the other will never admit Die Hard is a Christmas movie. We say, this year, we've got nothing but time so WATCH THEM ALL.

Christmas Lights Are Still on This Year

Every year there always seems to be some rivalry between families to see who can do the biggest and best holiday light show. While many other traditions may be off the to-do list this year, this one will probably be more amplified.

Wait! The Gifts

Many kids and their families are working from home right now, which has changed how we have to shop for gifts. The kids are going to see the deliveries come in, which would be a worrying point. But we know they're not going to notice anyway.

We're Not Asking for a Lot

When parents build up their holiday gift wish list, it doesn't have a lot to it. We want to sleep in, have a hot cup of coffee just once this coming year, and we want our kids to flush. That's it, just flush.

There Was No Elf Here

There are some benefits to having kids young. One of them is definitely missing out on explaining why there's no elf watching their every move and doing things in the kitchen that the kids would get yelled at for if they were doing.

Devan McGuinness
Weekend Editor