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.

We used to have some groovy 60's ornaments, and we only have one left. Occasionally I search for them on ebay. I found one of them once, but it was going for too much money.

Parliament has been prorogued

Is that a word in Canada? Because I've never heard it!

BTW, if anyone ever come across any of those 1970's-80's satin ornaments in orange, buy them for me and I will totally reimburse you. I have a green tinsel tree crying out for more orange.

It's a weird and wonderful word! It's one of those old-school parliamentary terms; it means to suspend a legislative session.

I was just posting my admiration of it on Twitter.

Is that a word in Canada? Because I've never heard it!

I think we stole it from the British.

With no Parliament, does that mean that the Governor General (and the Queen) rule by decree?