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.

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...

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.

Canada will not be having a coup, for now. Parliament has been prorogued. [link]

The things we have that are breakable we mostly got before we had kids (I think the last of these went on Sunday), or as gifts, or we got a bunch of insanely cheap glass balls from Target that I expect some lossage on. At this point, if nobody gets cut we're fine.