Doug Davidson
Paul Williams, “Y&R”

“Our lives in the Davidson household are kind of topsy turvy. I’ve got one child that goes to college of music in London, and she will be home. But my son will not be home for Christmas. And my father, who is about 97 ½, lives in an apartment with us here in our house, and he has 24-hour-care, but there’s quite a bit of management that goes into that, making sure all of his wants and needs are taken care of. So it’s a homestyle Christmas, but we’re kind of in a funny [place]: We’re too young for grandkids and too old to still do the same pattern we did when our kids were younger. So it’s a little different. My mom passed away in 2005,so there’s a bit of melancholy when we approach the holidays. Sometimes [my dad] remembers what’s happened to her and a lot of times, he doesn’t. So when you explain that to him again, it can be sad. And my wife’s father, who was the co-founder of Century 21 Real Estate, passed away on the 22nd of November, so that’s kind of another thing we’re dealing with too. But we’re very positive in the fact that we’re going to celebrate the holidays together as a family and pretty much wrap it mostly in love and fellowship as opposed to physical gifts. We’ll trim the tree, which is a major aspect of how we approach Christmas, and we’ll be together as a family to eat, drink and be merry.”