Devastated. This is like the plot of a TV Christmas special.
I hadn't noticed there weren't enough children. I thought we had a fair group last year. Anyways, I enjoyed eating Christmas cookies and drinking wine in a rare gathering with my fellow villagers. And I LOVED St. Nicholas emerging out of the darkness, pulling a wagon heaped with presents, shouting, "From drauss' vom Walde komm ich her, Ich muss euch sagen, es Weihnachtet sehr!" and so on, the wonderful poem from Theodor Storm.
Don't like being on the frontiers of demographic change.