I've never had a tree since I left home (except for that two-dimensional tree I drew on paper and taped to the wall, with electric lights taped on). But I'm tempted to, because I'm curious if it'd become a cat toy. Oh, and then I could put a cat nest in it....

Come to think of it though, the kids also generate ornaments so maybe it's a wash. The dogs though, NSM.

I don't have many breakable ornaments, myself. I don't go for the balls, and have a lot of crafty or metal ornaments.

My ornaments have been carefully selected to survive cats and kid. Loss is minimal.

Non-breakability and cheapness are definitely key factors in my ornament selection, due to cats.

I am scared to put up a tree as Noah is Grabby Hands. But there is one at daycare that got knocked down only once and that wasn't by a kid, but by the daycare kitten, Holly.

I was thinking of putting my pink tree up on the front table, but then I remembered that Perkins the cat has Issues with anything being on his table.

Considering that many people with Christmas trees have small kids, why don't they make ornaments out of stronger material?

Because Radkos are SO FREAKIN COOL.

I have almost enough glass this year to do the entire tree in them. And I have a big enough place to have a proper tree. SO exciting.

You could always go this route: [link]

Or this: [link]

why don't they make ornaments out of stronger material?

I know a lot of the ornaments on our Christmas tree were hand made by us as kids. We had pinecones painted with glitter, construction paper origami stars dipped in wax, stuff like that. We also had very spiffy glass ornaments, but I suspect those were placed very high up the tree until we all got over the grabby hands phase.