Christmas presents

Hidden away with care and love, the lovingly wrapped presents remain secret and in delightful anticipation waiting until Christmas day when they can be revealed. The anticipation of the joy and delight you experience when your child receives their gift has been denied to so many and instead become unendurable pain. They will never see their excitement, their happy faces, or hear their laughter ever again. Those presents chosen with such care will remain unopened by their children. Instead parents and partners, uncle and aunts, grandparents and cousins will be grieving for the twenty six they have just lost. My heart goes out to those poor people in Connecticut who have lost something so precious at such a time of year and as a result, Christmas will never be a time of cheer for them ever again.