Nicola Sturgeon will not have an 'indoor Christmas dinner' with her parents amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The First Minister confirmed that she might catch up with her mum and dad outside on December 25 but doesn't want to 'put them at risk' by meeting indoors.
Ms Sturgeon last saw her parents in July to mark her 50th Birthday.
The topic of Christmas arose during the FM's interview on BBC Radio 4 on Monday morning.
She told the Today Programme: "Normally, Christmas, my husband and I would have both our families here in our own home.
"We will not be doing that this year."
She added: "I've not seen my parents since July and I would dearly love to see them today and at Christmas but I don't want to put them at risk when a vaccine is so close.
"We might go and have a family walk somewhere but the idea ... of an indoors Christmas dinner is something we will not do this year."
Speaking previously about whether she would meet her parents at Christmas, Ms Sturgeon ruled out having dinner with them and said she was "thinking carefully" about meeting them at all.
She said she and her husband normally host a gathering of more than 10 people at their home on Christmas Day, including both sets of parents.
Ms Sturgeon told a Scottish Government coronavirus briefing: "We will not be doing that this year - absolutely not - because I think that would be outwith any kind of reasonable limits and I don't want to put elderly parents or mother-in-law at risk so we will not do that."
It comes after a further two deaths due to coronavirus were yesterday registered in Scotland overnight.
The Scottish Government announced the figures and also said 746 new cases of COVID-19 were reported in the same time period.
The total number of coronavirus deaths in Scotland since the start of the pandemic is now 3,722 and the total number of positive cases is 94,689.
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