Like so many, is adjusting her holiday plans amid the ongoing pandemic.  “This year it’s certainly different. We generally spend Thanksgiving with my whole family and we can’t do that this year. I think everyone’s kind of in that boat. Trying to figure out if they’re even going to see their families beyond whoever it is that you live with in your own home,” Bush, 38, exclusively told Us Weekly. “It’s so weird this year because we just can’t do things we normally do. I have a big blended family and so normally we are together for Hanukkah and Christmas and all the days in-between. It’s a lot of rotating around to everyone’s houses and celebrating all of the holidays right up to the new year.”  Celebrity Activists  Although she’s not seeing her extended family, the activist is coming up with creative new ways to keep in touch.  “I don’t quite know how it’s going to go, although my cousin Jenna did promise that she would still make latkes and would drop them off at my house and leave them on the front porch. So I’m really, really looking forward to them even if I can’t go to her house and eat them with her and her family and her kids,” she explained. “You know, we’re rolling with it. We’re really figuring out how to make our traditions work across these sort of safety barriers.”  She added: “I have been seeing my parents solely because my isolation plan in L.A. has been pretty strict and we are really lucky that in California we have really readily available testing. But we’re certainly not doing any major gatherings or anything for the holidays.”  Bush, who loves to roast chicken for her loved ones, will instead be sending out a thoughtful gift to her relatives.  “Thanks to my pals at Johnnie Walker, I am sending some cocktail kits to some family members so that they can make my old-fashioned even though I won’t be there with them,” she told Us. “It’s a stranger, new season for all of us but I think there’s little ways to figure out how to be present even while we have to be apart.”  ‘One Tree Hill’ Cast: Where Are They Now?  The One Tree Hill star is an ambassador for the brand. “[I’m just] such a fan. I’ve been a woman who loves whiskey for a long time and actually even in my early 20s there was a group of friends and I who would run these ‘Women Who Whiskey’ social gathering nights in New York,” she recalled. “It’s just always been such a sort of celebratory part of my life and I think it felt both exciting and flattering when I first got into talks with the brand in working with them because historically spirits brands have often been represented by men. And it’s really nice to be adding some ladies into the mix.”  For Bush, she’s “always been an old-fashioned girl.”  “That’s always been my No. 1. And I honestly make a really mean old-fashioned,” she said, laughing. “It’s one of those things that, yes, it’s always on rotation at my place.”  The Chicago P.D. alum, who has been a longtime advocate for woman’s rights, even helped to

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