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Jesse - Dec 04, 2008 6:47:22 am PST #4231 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

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

P.M. Marc - Dec 04, 2008 6:47:35 am PST #4232 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

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

Lee - Dec 04, 2008 6:50:29 am PST #4233 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

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

Kat - Dec 04, 2008 6:52:39 am PST #4234 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

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.

Lee - Dec 04, 2008 6:55:38 am PST #4235 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

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.

Trudy Booth - Dec 04, 2008 6:58:05 am PST #4236 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

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.

sarameg - Dec 04, 2008 6:59:08 am PST #4237 of 10002

You could always go this route: [link]

Or this: [link]

SailAweigh - Dec 04, 2008 7:00:18 am PST #4238 of 10002
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

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.

Jesse - Dec 04, 2008 7:08:24 am PST #4239 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

What I do have are a bunch of stuffed fabric ornaments that make excellent cat toys, leading to my finding them months later under things...

Sue - Dec 04, 2008 7:11:54 am PST #4240 of 10002
hip deep in pie

Most of my ornaments are glass, and frankly, I break more than the cats. The worst time I had with the trees and the cats was the year Clio was a kitten, and I decided to put nothing breakable on the tree. I bought this raffia garland, and Clio thought the best game was take one end of the garland in her mouth and pull it all off the tree.

I'm no fool, though, even though I have a super sturdy tree stand, I still tie the tree to the wall.

I am probably also responsible for the breakage of many beautiful glass ornaments on my parent's tree that came from my grandparents. Some were so delicate, it was easy to put a finger through them by just holding them a little too tightly.

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