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Merry Christmas From WhyNotFathers

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A Christmas Post – Treasure the gift of…

Our family celebrates Christmas on the eve.  Then we spend Christmas Day with my bride’s family.  This holiday is no different. Our celebration is incomplete though without David’s voice and joy ringing through the house.  Without him getting into presents that aren’t his, and helping things to disappear. We celebrated with David on Sunday in an apartment operated by the facility where he is a resident.  All is well with him, and I can not ask God for more for him.  We are blessed that he is in a safe place, and that he is comfortable there. Rather than recount the orgy of greed that seems to Christmas, I will say that my family is truly thankful for the blessings that this year has brought us.  We have had our share of challenges, we lost some good friends along the way.  Robyn first in Davidh, Stan in April, David in

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Celebrated Christmas with David at the PRTF

We spent the day with David.  He got to open his presents from us, and we opened our presents from him.  It was a good day. the facility has apartments for families to utilize when they are visiting.  As a result, we spent the day in a home like environment rather than in the more institutional cottage where he resides. David received an abundance of clothes, and toys.  I received a cell phone case and wallet.  the siblings each got books or useful items like makeup mirrors. After lunch we watched a couple of movies and just enjoyed our time with David.  He was so different.  Calm doesn’t seem to be the right word, as he still had plenty of energy.  But you could tell he was working on controlling himself. When we left, sad to say, old habits die hard.  We checked all of his stuff to ensure that

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