This will be Axels first Christmas too, he will be turning 1 on December 20th. So I'm hoping he will be fine. BUT he started marking this week. Every tree and bush he has to leave a 'story'. Hopefully he doesn't try to mark the tree. I'll find out soon though, putting up the tree soon
Hehe that's what my OH says I loveeeee Christmas! It's so pretty and cozy. Half my street is already lit up with Christmas lights, I feel very behind in decorating this year
That's mad! It's our first one in our own home this year so I was gunna go a bit mad. But I've already booked it in for 10th December to be put up. No doubt I'll drink lots of wine and think my tree is one that should be in a magazine. Then come down the next day sober and look at my tree like
We always have a huge tree. 9' to 10' Living in the tree farm state, we can get a U-Cut tree for $25. Last year we put the puppy fence around it. We were worried about the gifts as much as the tree. We will probably put the fence up again this year. Cooper is better but she might still think a lot of gifts and ornaments look like chew toys.
Heh, heh - be glad you don't live in Bavaria, then. Christmas cookies and decorations have been in the stores since early September, the outdoor decorations have been up now for for several weeks and next week begins the never-ending party of the Christmas markets (there are five just in the centre of my town). Not that I'm complaining as experiencing the holly jolly Bavarian Christmas is the main reason that I spend December here and risk getting stuck in bad weather on my drive down to Spain in January. Glühwein, Bratwurst and Dampfnudeln, oh my!
We have one up, and Titan likes to sit underneath it. We discourage this only because someday he won't be as little as he is now, and I'd rather not have the tree come down on top of him. He did try to eat on decoration (thankfully, it was just a Styrofoam one and not a glass one!) but other than that has left it alone. He likes to walk by and sniff it every once in a while, but hasn't shown a ton of interest. Although, when I was putting it up he did think the branches were awfully fun to chew on while I wasn't looking
Corona will just have turned 4 months when ours goes up. I've opted to forgo the real thing this year and put up my old prelit tree. We have cedars that line our property and Corona is always trying to pull branches off the lower limbs so I have no doubt she would take the tree down! Also putting the tree in OH's office, where if worse comes to worse, I can baby gate the entrance to it. I absolutely love the real thing, but it can wait until next year, when she's older
Simba was El Destructo his first Christmas with us. He kept stealing ornaments, we kept taking ornaments off, he knocked it over once trying to steal an ornament...after about a week the top half was decorated and the bottom half was bare, and the whole thing was looking a bit tattered around the edges.
My pups have all been six months old by the time Christmas has arrived so it wasn't a problem at all. Mollie will only be 3 months We are still deciding about the tree. If we put it in the lounge we'll never see it as we don't go in there during the widdle days due to it being carpeted. Pups learn quickly 'tho. Mollie already knows not to bother Tatze when she's on her chair. But is it worth making another thing to teach her to leave alone? ...
We used to come over to Germany, Holland and Belgium to go to the Christmas Markets. Loved it and it really got me in the Christmas mood. Lots of my decorations have come from there and they are carefully packed away each year. My mother-in-law loved the Christmas candles and I brought her one each year and when she passed away they were all preserved beautifully and for the past two Christmases have taken pride of place under my tree. May have to find somewhere else for them this year though as don't want them chewed or carried around the place!
Xena's crate is currently in the only Christmas tree space we have. So the tree is just going to have to go on top of the crate (told you I stored things on it). Next year she WILL be out of the crate and the tree can regain its rightful place, on the carpet where God and Father Christmas intended.
We always have a big real tree. Whilst we are all decorating it Hattie & Charlie lay down and watch us occasionally have a little sniff and mooch. Never been an issue I wonder if the secret is to just relax and not draw any extra attention to it.
