My mother moved to Australia when she was 3 or 4. She was very close to her grandmother before they moved but never saw her again until I was a baby.

She always told us when we were kids how she missed having grandparents and always reminded us how lucky we were to have ours in our lives.

She's a very hands on grandmother now, she lives for our kids. I often wonder whether this is as a result of her not having grandparents.