It was always Jade's job to put up the Christmas tree. This year, Mrs Bayliss, 33, and her two other children, Amber, 11, and Harvey, 8, joined together to do it for Jade.
"I should have three children opening presents, not two," Mrs Bayliss told the Herald.
"The loss hasn't just changed my life, it's changed my family's, it's changed my neighbours', the kids at school. It's changed everyone's life."
Mrs Bayliss was at work the day Jade was killed, and had tried repeatedly to reach Jade by phone.
Eventually, she asked a family friend to go to the house and check on her. Police then came to deliver the news to Mrs Bayliss at her work.
Jade's body was found after a fire at her home.
Western Australian-born Jeremy McLaughlin, 34, has been charged with her murder. Security guard Jolon Sweeney, 40, is charged with being an accessory for allegedly helping McLaughlin avoid arrest.
Mrs Bayliss got to know McLaughlin before Jade's death.She still questions what she could have done differently.
She feels nothing towards those accused of being involved in her daughter's death.
"I've been told I'll get to an angry stage, but that hasn't happened yet."
Mrs Bayliss moved with her husband Gary and three children from Cumbria, England to Christchurch five years ago - attracted by the lower crime rate.
She has since separated from her husband.
She had Jade when she was 19.
"Jade and I kind of grew up together in a sense. And when I had Harvey ... from that day onwards she was like a mother figure to him. She just loved children and babies. Sometimes I had to tell her 'I'm the mum, not you'.
"It was just always her and I. Wherever I went, she went. She would pick me sometimes over her friends. She liked us to go shopping rather than go with her girlfriends ..."
Jade was a perfectionist and a "massive worrier". After the Christchurch earthquakes, she saved her money from her paper round in case it was needed in an emergency.
Jade was also very witty "without knowing it".
"When she started laughing, and she couldn't stop laughing, it was the most contagious thing you have come across."
An animal lover, one of Jade's immediate concerns after the February earthquake was making sure the family's miniature poodles Billy and Milo were okay.
A high-achieving student, she discovered a love of art in the months before her death.
Mrs Bayliss worries that New Zealanders are not safety conscious enough despite shocking events like her daughter's death.
She feels there is still a sense that "it won't happen to me".
Every morning Mrs Bayliss wakes up and says good morning to Jade. She says she gets through each day "because I have got the other two".
"Not a day goes by that I don't wish Jade was here. But I look at Harvey and I look at Amber, and I think 'they need me now more than ever'."
