I am jealous!!!When my husband and I decided we had to go for a fake tree (just more economical for us newlyweds), we decided we had to go all the way. None of this life-like fake tree stuff. If it was going to be fake, it was going to look fake.
So now we are the proud owners of a silver fiber-optic tree with a motorized color wheel.
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*Stella
When my youngest daughter was in her ‘havoc-wreaking’ stage we still had a Christmas tree (it seemed a pity to deprive her goody-two-shoes older sister the joyWith the amount of havoc our little Lily can wreak I am not adding one more thing to my house than can be destroyed, cause electrocution, or be used as a weapon**
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No, I did not keep my daughter in a play pen for the whole Christmas season! :bigyikes: I put the tree in the play pen I didn’t say anything earlier because I didn’t want anyone to think we were odd, but we did the same thing when our son was 9 months old on his first Christmas! He was just learning to walk and was grabbing on to anything for support… the mesh of the playpen walls was a far better support than the tree branches!When my youngest daughter was in her ‘havoc-wreaking’ stage we still had a Christmas tree (it seemed a pity to deprive her goody-two-shoes older sister the joy
However, for the sake of my sanity we bought a play pen.
…And another similarity, Bluerose, we had a cat that ate ‘shiny things’ - strange not Christmas tinsel though. But when he had had a go at the foil of chocolate or any other foil, well the litter box was all sparkly!!
Ok, who actually drank all that Dew?
I have one of those cats. When he was a kitten I had to lock him in a bedroom during dinner because he would jump on the table and help himself to our plates. Didn’t matter what we were eating. Pasta dish with veggies and garlic, spinach salad with citrus vinaigrette (I thought cats didn’t like citrus- it doesn’t faze either of mine), fries with ketchup, jalapeno corn chips, etc. He still likes cantaloupe, raw orange squash, strawberries, spicy Thai chicken, and hummus. If I’m cooking pasta and drop an uncooked piece on the floor, he’ll bat it around for a few minutes and then crunch away.
When we had more than our fair share of cats, we hung our tree from the ceiling. I will have to see if I can find a photo of one year when we did that.When my youngest daughter was in her ‘havoc-wreaking’ stage we still had a Christmas tree (it seemed a pity to deprive her goody-two-shoes older sister the joy
However, for the sake of my sanity we bought a play pen.
Oh my gosh! Sounds like our (now deceased, and not because of the junk he ate) cat’s cousin. Citrus he loved and played in water like a kid. Hot spicy food too. But he was greedy and determined to get more than his fair share. Offer him hot milk and he’d rather burn his mouth than allow the other cats or dogs a look at the milk, he’d stretch his neck right over the dish and glare at any other animal venturing near. :bigyikes:I have one of those cats. When he was a kitten I had to lock him in a bedroom during dinner because he would jump on the table and help himself to our plates. Didn’t matter what we were eating. Pasta dish with veggies and garlic, spinach salad with citrus vinaigrette (I thought cats didn’t like citrus- it doesn’t faze either of mine), fries with ketchup, jalapeno corn chips, etc. He still likes cantaloupe, raw orange squash, strawberries, spicy Thai chicken, and hummus. If I’m cooking pasta and drop an uncooked piece on the floor, he’ll bat it around for a few minutes and then crunch away.
I’m pretty sure he’s really a dog disguised to look like a cat. He loved to play in water, too, and would climb in the kitchen sink when I did dishes (to keep him off of the counter and sink, I tried lining everything with aluminum foil. He liked the sound it made when he walked on it so he spent even MORE time on the counters). Come to think of it, he still likes to bat at water from the bathtub faucet.
The lengths our pets drive us to!!!
I don’t get it. Maybe it’s just the cats I’ve lived with, but wouldn’t the added challenge present a greater temptation for the cats to try and climb the tree?
You have a good point there :yup:
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The cat I’m thinking of was so clumsy he would have knocked the tree over getting into it … what am I saying? … He did knock the tree over, many times and I never thought of suspending him or the tree from the ceiling
1.) Four foot tree, but very full.
Clever!1.) Four foot tree, but very full.
2.) Chains made out of pretty chains that you can get at the hardware store, with rings to support the tree.
3.) High ceilings.
4.) Nothing goes under the tree, and the tree is not located near any furniture so the cats don’t have a jumping off point.
**Suspending the CAT from the ceiling for the duration of the Christmas season…now why didn’t I think of that??? Suspend the cat, duct tape the toddler… fa la la la la, la la la la!:dancing:He did knock the tree over, many times and I never thought of suspending him or the tree from the ceiling
… now I have “deck the halls with cats and toddlers, fa la la la la…la la la LA!” playing over and over in my head
Well, when my youngest was that age we also had a new kitten and a playpen so, I put the tree in the playpen.When my youngest daughter was in her ‘havoc-wreaking’ stage we still had a Christmas tree (it seemed a pity to deprive her goody-two-shoes older sister the joy
However, for the sake of my sanity we bought a play pen.
Alright, a new version of Deck the Halls**:dancing:**!**Suspending the CAT from the ceiling for the duration of the Christmas season…now why didn’t I think of that??? Suspend the cat, duct tape the toddler… fa la la la la, la la la la!:dancing:
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