So who is brave enough to put a tree up this year?

[Medusa]

We stopped, however, putting candy canes on the tree during Gracie's 14-year reign - she LOVED candy canes. That was the only time she would drool, is if one dared eat a candy cane in her presence. Silly girl!

That's hilarious! I would love to have seen that.

[MoonandBean]

So far, so good (but Sunny will be supervised constantly). Moon and Bean don't bother it; real or fake...

[IRescue452]

We have two ten-month-old kittens, if even that old. The tree went up, the ornaments came down, repeatedly. We just stick to ornaments that are safe around kittens. They don't have all that much interest anymore, they've got far too many toys to play with besides the tree plus a jungle gym of boxes and baskets. We've gotten pretty elaborate with setting up things for them to play with ever since Smokey got his neck wrapped around a speaker cord and almost hung himself one night. They're learning what's set up for them and what they aren't supposed to play with.

I did see in a magazine a tree that had the branches cut the first couple of feet and a smaller triangle of branches on the top half. It was like a topiary christmas tree. It'd be a good idea for keeping everything off ground level.

[AdoreMyDogs]

I've never gone without a tree, however, last year for the first time EVER, Boone knocked the tree over. Thankfully it was after Christmas (the day after) and we lost the Christmas lights (a bunch of them were shattered) and several of my special ornaments. The living room was full of tiny shards of glass everywhere. It was a real mess. The tree was not straight enough in the tree stand I don't think. We put it up too quickly. This year we were more careful.

I will post pictures later.

The only thing that is different since having a baby, is my ornaments are all up high. I can't have any ornaments down low until Quinn is older. Surprisingly enough, Quinn hasn't had any interest in the tree when the lights are on because she thinks they're "hot", so we keep the lights on all the time. She's cautious of lights after she touched the super hot lightbulb of a lamp I had up during pumpkin carving. She points to the tree several times and says, "a tree" and then says "hot". I just tell her it's hot to keep her away from it. It's been up and undisturbed for 4 days now!

[kt_luvs_kitties]

Adore my dogs, have you tired anchoring it? That way, it just cant get knocked over! It is super easy, and only takes about 5 minutes!

[AdoreMyDogs]

Adore my dogs, have you tired anchoring it? That way, it just cant get knocked over! It is super easy, and only takes about 5 minutes!

How does one anchor a real tree? It seems to be much sturdier then last year and we hope, because we left a small gap between the window and the tree, Boone won't knock it down again.

Here's the tree before we finished putting the decorations on. It's a little big for our tiny living room, but it was a good price and it was so pretty.