Lost my mum to a stroke in December 2023 …everyday is just so so hard, but my mum loved christmas and gave me and my siblings the best Christmas every year, so im going to make sure i follow in her footsteps and put on a wonderful Christmas display every year in her memory, and try and keep her alive in the secret room in my head where she is safe snd sound and happy 
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My Mum passed also in December 2023, its her 76th birthday this weekend. I miss her so much, still believe it’s all a dream and shes really in a hospital or care home somewhere, and shall be home for Christmas. I feel your pain.
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Im so sorry for the loss of your mum , its so hard but we have to carry on and do just what they would want us to do and that is to keep on living… just try and keep remembering all the good times you had with her 
do it for your mum xxx
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Only problem with that is those memorys will make you emotional.
My mum passed away October 2023 so I went through last Christmas in a bit of a daze. I thought I was doing ok but it’s suddenly hit me really hard that the Christmases we had together - just me and her enjoying the holiday - are gone forever and at the moment I can’t see that I will ever be happy again. When I’m not working I just bury myself under a blanket on the sofa.
Mum was a Christmas person as mum was a Christmas baby. Me not so much, I most likely be in hospital for Christmas which will feel weird and strange at the same time. Story of 2024, I’m hoping 25 is more kinder to me.