Holiday decorating in a house with five cats in it is not easy. There are only about 2 places in the entire house that cannot be reached by felines and one of those is the ceiling. This severely limits where we can decorate and what we can decorate with. After much trial and error (note: decorating a tree with only unbreakable or paper ornaments saves on cleanup of broken ornaments but still results in a tree with no decorations on the bottom third) we have reduced our decorations to:
- A mini (2 1/2′) tree that gets hidden in the bathroom at night to protect it
- A few tree ornaments that will stand up on their own scattered on the mantel
- Some glass balls hung from the decorative metal leaf sculpture above the mirror over the fireplace
- A wreath hung on the outside of the screen door
And of course, nothing in my life would be complete anymore without a little Zenyatta:
We also got a Christmas cactus that sits on the mantel during the day and on the bathroom counter at night (because apparently the first thing a cat thinks to do when encountering a new plant is eat it):
The cactus and the tree both go into protective custody in the bathroom at night, mostly because of THIS creature:
Pippin
Don’t be fooled by the innocent act; he is deviously smart and has the power of levitation as well.
