Shit December so far. Please give me ideas for tomorrow.

[Chainy]

We have lost someone close this month. DH is working tomorrow and I want to do something nice with the kids and my mum to get us all in the Christmas mood. I just can’t think of anything this close to Christmas that won’t involve crowds and stressful parking etc

I'm really sorry for your loss.

For me the most magical and Christmassy things are the ones you can do at home. Eg Baking christmas cookies and decorating them or making christmas crafts / presents. It probably depends on how old your kids are. I also love just playing board games all day long while drinking tea and hot chocolate. Just play christmas songs in rhe background. And maybe a christmas movie in the afternoon (again with lots of tea or hot chocolate).

If you want to get out of the house what i also love is walking around after dark and looking at other people's christmas decorations.

Hope you have a lovely and relaxing day tomorrow.

Sorry for your loss. I think @AlgaeScratchings has exactly the right ideas.

A walk in the park/woods with Santa hats and hot chocolate in a flask.

Baking - Sainsbury’s sell ready to roll gingerbread dough if you’re not up to homemade. Or if the kids are small, just give them a packet of digestive biscuits and a free hand with the icing and sprinkles.

Definitely a Christmas movie. If you’ve got a small art house cinema near you, they often show Christmas classics at this time of year and are much more civilised than the big chains.

Christmas jigsaw

Making cards for the neighbours

If you have the funds is there a NT house or light trail or something near you? An ice rink? I've found everywhere weirdly quiet this year. Took DD to a castle yesterday to see their Xmas installations and it was v quiet. Otherwise, I second the baking, crafty, games, movie day.

Roughly where do you live? Lots of fairly small towns have outside Christmas light installations (chairs/frames/snowmen) that you can wander round. Bake some biscuits in the day, go to look at the lights at 4pm, nibble the biscuits as you go round, back home for tea.