Christmas without the chaos
A Christmas playbook created for solo mums who want the magic without carrying every single Christmas decision around in their head.
Christmas can be magical, funny, completely over the top and one of the best parts of the year.
It can also come with an extraordinary amount of invisible work when you are the person remembering the presents, Santa, food, family plans, school events, traditions, bookings, wrapping, budgets, Christmas Day logistics and all the tiny details that somehow make the magic happen.
Christmas Without the Chaos was created specifically with solo-parent families in mind.
It is not a book about stripping Christmas back to the bare minimum or becoming incredibly organised so you can somehow fit even more in.
It is about deciding what you actually want Christmas to look and feel like for your family, putting your time, energy and money into those things, and making everything else easier.
More is fine. Less is fine. Unchosen is the problem.
Create a Christmas that feels like your family
One of the freedoms of creating Christmas in a solo-parent household is that you get to decide what belongs in yours.
You can keep traditions you loved growing up, retire the ones you never understood, borrow shamelessly from other families and invent things your children will one day assume everybody did at Christmas.
You can decide what Santa does, what “enough” presents looks like, how much Christmas is allowed to cost, which family plans work for you, what Christmas morning looks like and which invitations get a polite no.
This playbook helps you make those decisions before December starts making them for you.
Inside Christmas Without the Chaos
The 2026 Digital First Edition is a 150+ page printable digital playbook combining guided decision-making, practical planning pages and a huge Christmas Inspiration Guide.
You’ll work through things like:
what you want Christmas to feel like
the traditions you actually want your children to remember
your family’s Santa rules
presents without present creep
setting a realistic Christmas number
deciding which family expectations belong in your Christmas — and which don’t
getting the Christmas mental load out of your head
deciding what to do early, make easier, hand off or delete
protecting the parts of Christmas that belong just to you and your children
planning Christmas week without spending Christmas Eve working until midnight
what to do if everything goes completely sideways
making sure Mum actually gets to experience Christmas too
And at the end, you’ll bring the important decisions together into Our Christmas on a Page.
Need ideas? Steal mine.
There is also a substantial Christmas Inspiration Guide designed for browsing rather than completing.
Dip into it when you want ideas for:
Christmas traditions, Advent, Christmas Eve, Christmas morning, Santa magic, lazy Elf ideas, an Aussie summer Christmas, low-cost Christmas magic, stocking fillers, experience gifts, teacher gifts, Christmas food, gingerbread, movies, books, playlists, traditions for different ages and plenty more.
There is even a Christmas Day Success Kit so you are not searching the house for a tiny screwdriver while someone waits to open their new toy, plus a post-Christmas inventory audit and Boxing Day sales list to make next Christmas easier.
Take the ideas you love.
Ignore the rest.
Made for the reality of solo-parent Christmas
There are plenty of Christmas planners built around gift lists, meal plans and colour-coded schedules.
This one starts somewhere different.
It starts with the reality that when you are parenting on your own, a huge amount of Christmas planning can land with one person — but you also have the freedom to create traditions, rules and a version of Christmas that genuinely works for your family.
It includes the conversations that generic Christmas planners usually miss: extended-family expectations, protecting your Christmas morning, explaining why Santa works differently in different homes, Christmas activities that assume every child has a mum and dad, who organises Mum’s present, and what happens when 25 December is not actually the day that feels most like your family’s Christmas.
The 2026 Digital First Edition
I eventually want Christmas Without the Chaos to become a beautiful physical book.
Before I do that, I want real solo mums to use it through an actual Christmas.
So I’m releasing the complete digital first edition now at a reduced price and inviting early readers to tell me what they used, what they skipped, what helped and what they would love to see in a future edition.
Early Edition Price: AU$14.99
Future full price: AU$29.99
You will receive the complete digital PDF immediately after purchase.
You’ll also have access to the evolving Christmas Without the Chaos digital toolkit, linked inside the book. The toolkit will continue to be refined as readers use the playbook.
Already a Solo Mum Society member?
Christmas Without the Chaos is included in your membership.
Head to the Library inside Circle, where you’ll find the playbook together with the Christmas Without the Chaos expert-session recording.
Make the magic. Keep the parts you love. Lose the rest.
Your child is not experiencing Christmas as a project plan.
They are experiencing the feeling of the house, the things you do together, the traditions they recognise, the anticipation, the laughter and the ordinary moments that eventually become:
“That’s what we always did at Christmas.”
Christmas Without the Chaos helps you decide what you want those things to be.