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This year my Dad is in hospital for Christmas and until 30 December, the consequence of a lung infection on top of the other breathing dramas he has, and which I suspect will take him from us one day in the not too distant future. Looks like Christmas this year will be spent wih pork and turkey sandwiches, and a little bit of Christmas pudding with brandy cream at his bedside. But you know what - it will still be fun, and we will make the most of it.
Like Scott, I have no kids. My family is pretty much myself, my sister and Dad.
Joe - how proud I would be to have even had kids, and how proud you should be of the fine work Luke, Colin and Bryan are doing! It is perfectly fine to miss them and wish them well, and even to wish you could spend more time with them, or that circumstances were different and they could fnd the resources to spend more time with you. It is because you are a caring and normal Dad. I feel for you. I kinda live by the principle that you open your door an invite everyone in, and those that want to, enter. I remember reading once that "..home is a nice, safe, soft place to land...". If you do that and make home the inviting place Iam sure tha it already is - then you have done your best, and nobody could argue otherwise.
Time spent apart from loved ones is soon forgotten amidst the memories of being together - and I hope this is the case for y'all
Enjoy your Christmas Joe, Scott, Tony and everone else here on this fine site.
I raise a glass to you all and I wish you a wonderful and happy 2010.
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