how are y'all celebrating Passover? where are you doing a Seder and with who?

[talya]

to me, this year’s Seder is going to be… interesting. i’m celebrating with my parents (potential complication one) at the local Chabad (potential complication two).
i have a complicated relationship with the Seder. part of it is due to specific family issues around Passover that i’m not gonna get into, but a lot of it is that my dad’s side of the family usually does the Seder with the entire extended family totaling over 30 people, which is way beyond my tolerance. combine that with Cochi singing traditions that involve tunes at very slow rhythms and passing the torch between about half the people on the table, and you get an event that easily lasts hours on end. it’ll get to a point where at years where we’re doing a Seder on my mum’s side we’d get back and the Dad’s side will still be in the middle of theirs.
i do however absolutely love the Hagadah. and last year i’ve got a reminder as to just how much i love it when the stars unexpectedly aligned and instead of doing the Seder with the entirety of my dad’s side or most of my mum’s side, we were just us, the parents, my three younger brothers, and two aunts. 8 people instead of 30. and with all honesty, that was probably the best Seder of my life so far. the older of the brothers and i took over the evening and read the Hagadah with the passion and excitement i wish were present at the larger gatherings, doing the Cochi songs, yes, but only to the point of improving the experience.
i honestly long for another such experience. heck, even better, a similar experience with my friends and chosen family rather than with my parents. but with Passover being the most important holiday in my family by not a small distance, with me now living in a different country to most of my friends and with the new friends here either being non-Jewish or actually just friends of my wife, or simply considering the fact my house can’t really hold a dinner for more than four people, it’s not gonna happen in the near term. but i still hope for that Seder of my dreams. one day.

so with the oversharing done, i really do want to hear your plans for the Seder and for the Passover week as a whole! do share!

[alter_kaker]

With how stressed out we are right now, we won’t be holding our own Seder. With the babies, we are going to switch back and forth. I’m taking the older kids on the first night to visit someone that our Rabbi recommended, and on the second night, @miriam will take the older kids to the synagogue Seder. So basically I don’t know what to expect

[raf]

I didn’t do a Seder growing up, but have attended a few as an adult. I like the ritual, but I definitely prefer the shorter more informal ones. For me, Passover as always more of a get together with family and eat some matzo. So the ones that resemble that feel better to me

[ellie]

Mostly trying to convince a friend in another country that it’s a mitzvah to over eat at a seder and making jokes about that.
I don’t have anyone here to celebrate chagim with and am never organised enough to put together a seder plate to do it on my own.