Thanks for the support, everyone. My family just left so now I can look at this. I was unprepared for how hard this would be--I thought the worst would be xmas day or something like that, but no, it was when the family was in town.
Thank you for all your suggestions on how to get through this.
As much as I like my family, I feel better now that they're gone because I am back to what is now "normal" around here--me being alone.