I plan to start our Christmas decorating on Veterans Day weekend, basically just in the kitchen. I'll pack up everything in the kitchen that I know I won't be using until the end of February, give the kitchen a good cleaning, then bring out the Winterberry dishes and accessories. By that Monday night, the kitchen will be all decked out for Christmas (except for the TWT).
The Tacky White Tree will go up the weekend after that.
And then we will put up the living room tree and do the decorating in the rest of the house over Thanksgiving weekend. Christmas baking will start that weekend, too.
The cats will climb the trees. Amber loves to nap in the trees. She chooses a lower branch back in the very back of the tree, where she (thinks she) won't be seen and will spends hours in there sleeping away. They chew on the branches and knock ornaments off. We have a tradition.....the ornaments that the cats knock off the tree are not put back on the tree; we put them in a basket in the kitchen. By the end of the holidays, usually the bottom two feet of our tree are bare. We consider them "helping" us to take the tree down. The bottom two feet of the tree are decorated in plushies and those items that are cat-safe.
Do you decorate for the holidays? A lot or a little? When will you start? What will you do? Do your furkids leave your decorations alone?
The Tacky White Tree will go up the weekend after that.
And then we will put up the living room tree and do the decorating in the rest of the house over Thanksgiving weekend. Christmas baking will start that weekend, too.
The cats will climb the trees. Amber loves to nap in the trees. She chooses a lower branch back in the very back of the tree, where she (thinks she) won't be seen and will spends hours in there sleeping away. They chew on the branches and knock ornaments off. We have a tradition.....the ornaments that the cats knock off the tree are not put back on the tree; we put them in a basket in the kitchen. By the end of the holidays, usually the bottom two feet of our tree are bare. We consider them "helping" us to take the tree down. The bottom two feet of the tree are decorated in plushies and those items that are cat-safe.
Do you decorate for the holidays? A lot or a little? When will you start? What will you do? Do your furkids leave your decorations alone?