<p>I’m not sure whether it ever ends.</p>
<p>My kids are 25 and 22. One will not be able to come home at all this Christmas, and I probably will not see him again for more than a year. The other will be here only on Christmas Day, perhaps for 4 or 5 hours.</p>
<p>The norm now is for them not to be here, but it still doesn’t seem normal.</p>