So, my wife, myself, our kids, and my wife's mother and father, and their kids, and a friend of ours, and her kids went to a Garden Nursery not far from where live. Every year around this time till Christmas, they have a lot of Christmas activities going on.
So, we went there, and after we all got a picture taken with Santa, we asked for a special request. We asked them if Santa would mind taking a picture of what we call our "Jayden Bear" which is a small brown teddy bear, with a white t shirt, with our Son's name on it, that we lost to a miss carriage.
Santa took the bear, held it in his arms like it was a baby for about 2 minutes, with his ear leaned down to it. When he rose up, he asked for a minute before they took the pictures so he could wipe the tears from his eyes. Soon as I saw him, I couldn't help but to cry myself. We think about the son we lost every day, and know he is in heaven looking down on us and his sisters...this time of year, it is especially hard when we always think about the kind of boy he would be today and the kind of man he would have become.
Every year we see between 15 to 25 Santa's and this has been the greatest one by far! Not just because of what he did with our Jayden bear, but because of how they make you feel when you are there. It is like a passion to him, where other Santa's are really there just for the pay check.
Thanks everyone for letting me share.
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