Christmas in limbo

My mother has declined the offer to come to us for Christmas even though I explained, or tried to, that she would have to spend Christmas on her own. I know that we are a long way from her but my brother and I had the travelling sorted out. Her reason for not wanting to come is because it means cancelling the milk and newspaper! So I am not sure what we are going to do for Christmas. It's too late now to arrange anything else and at the moment I don't really care as I've got some bug. Perhaps now is the time to look for good deal on a holiday for Christmas 2008. I quite fancy going away for Christmas and leaving the rest of the family to fight over who goes where.