Difficult time of year.

I have been contacted by a large number of grandparents over the last week and I think it is so very difficult for us all at this time of the year.
The shops are beginning to get geared up for festivities for families, and children, which makes it even more painful than it is every day.
Not being able to see our grandchildren during ,what is, a family time is so painful for some grandparents they just close their doors and hope Christmas comes and goes as fast as possible.
For me it is yet another year that I wont be able to share in my granddaughters excitement on Christmas Eve, I wonder what she will get in her stocking?
Remember that we are all here for one another and I am at the end of the phone.