Thank you for your responses so many great ideas. My girls love baking so we’ll be doing that for sure. We have a great garden centre which actually has reindeer in the stable part every year. I also take the girls there every year to choose a decoration for the tree. I like the idea of inviting friends round for hot chocolates too and the Xmas eve boxes.
I have my family coming round for Christmas dinner and my parents will be staying Christmas eve at ours so we will have grandparents there in the morning which will be a nice distraction. Just need to get past this first Christmas. My ex isn’t seeing the children until the 28th Dec (his choice!) so it puts a bit more pressure on me to keep the girls spirit up until then!
thanks you again x