KC families modify holiday traditions for safety in 2020 Family traditions are changing during COVID-19 and the holidays. and last updated 2020-12-15 13:53:32-05 KANSAS CITY, Mo. â Many families are changing treasured holiday traditions to celebrate safely during the COVID-19 pandemic. When Roxanne Wyss and Kathy Moore asked if my (Lindsay Shively) Grandma and I would want to be a part of Come Into My Kitchen, a feature in the Kansas City Star for decades, I was so torn. I desperately wanted to document our Buche De Noel tradition with my Grandma but I didn t know how, in 2020, we would keep up our traditional baking day safely.