I have most of the Christmas decorations completed. Our den:
The nativity scene on the mantle:
My "harvest tree," in the bar area, which is a collection of fruit, vegetable, and grain ornaments I began collecting ten years ago. Now I'm collecting religious ornaments of saints for a new small tree.
The first time John was alone in the den with the trees, I came back in to find that he had pulled off about a dozen ornaments. We're still working on teaching him how to be gentle with ornaments and we've lost only one so far.
The nativity scene on the mantle:
My "harvest tree," in the bar area, which is a collection of fruit, vegetable, and grain ornaments I began collecting ten years ago. Now I'm collecting religious ornaments of saints for a new small tree.
The first time John was alone in the den with the trees, I came back in to find that he had pulled off about a dozen ornaments. We're still working on teaching him how to be gentle with ornaments and we've lost only one so far.
When we have kids John's age, we put all the ornaments at the top so they can't get to them. It makes for a goofy tree :)
ReplyDeleteWhen our kids were little, we had a strict rule that the tree was not for touching. As they got older, they were still not allowed to touch the tree because it encouraged the younger ones to do it. It worked well and we never had to hang the ornaments high.
ReplyDeleteOTOH, we started early life with no ornaments and had to buy them little by little. Our first ornaments were little lacy things made of white tin. Not breakable, just bendable. We supplemented them with crepe paper ribbons and popcorn balls wrapped in cellophane a la Martha Stewart. Very kid friendly.
Cute! Last year Emma was really bad about removing the ornaments from the tree, so not only were there a few casualties, the entire bottom half was bare. We just made sure the delicate, special ones were up high.
ReplyDeleteShe's been much better about it this year, but she's taken to removing one ornament at a time and having it "kiss" all the other ornaments.
What a warm and lovely decorations. Merry Christmas!
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