Anyone else depressed by the sight of their Christmas tree and the distribution of decorations?

[Pinkjenny]

My tree looked beautiful at first, but ds has made it his mission to pull all the decorations off and eat them, dd likes to play with them. So now the top is covered in decorations, some two to a branch, and the bottom is bald. Bloody kids.

Nope.

I love it. It's haphazard and wonky and unbalanced but it's beautiful and twinkly and represents everything I love about Christmas.

Well you bloody would, you're all serene and I'm, er, not.

The boy wants to eat EVERYTHING.

Just let him.

My friend's ds thinks the tree and its assorted ornaments are called 'don't you bloody dare'.

I'm not serene. I merely walk a different plane to everybody else.

I'm resigned to it now.

You just described my tree! Totally bald - carpet invisible under needles, all decorations in top 1/4 of tree, all tinsel and beads off the tree in various rooms....but the house smells great!

haha the top half of my tree is crammed full of decorations. the bottom is bare. nothing to do with the kids, but everything to do with a plastic-eating puppy!

I got around the issue this year by giving DD her own 3' tree in her room to decorate however she wants. Her tree looks rather, um, interesting but it worked because she's left my tree alone!

Dd has her own tree in her bedroom. She is still very interested in mine though.

Mines lovely, extremely well balanced, colour co-ordinated and well lit. However, DS is only 14 weeks old. Next year will be a different story.

My kitten has stripped my Christmas tree of both baubles and needles. When my husband commented on the amount of baubles that have been on the floor for a over a week I realised that I too am very depressed about my decorations.

We have a tiny tree up on a table. It's next to the sofa though, so the DCs still climb up and play with the decorations. Since they decorated it in the first place, it isn't exactly tasteful! But it is very colourful and cheerful, and surprisingly even! Mind you, I did wonder, when I was standing it back up the other day after DD2 pulled it over, why there was a monkey in a bucket hanging from the branches...

It has been distressing me greatly. No point loading the bottom up again when DD will simply eat them all...

I read the riot act to DD this morning and told her to leave the tree alone - she'd broken yet another bauble with her 'gathering nuts for winter' game that she keeps playing. Grr. She strips off all the decorations she can reach and then heaps them on a branch (they then fall off..)
Tree looking a bit sad.

Well, my tree looks gorgeous, but every time anyone touches it (eg to replace a decoration/ walk past it) it sheds a flood of needles . I've watered it really well and everything. Supposed to be expensive no-drop Nordmann. Pah. That's what I get for being too impatient for lovely farm shop to get another delivery and rushing off to bloody Homebase.

OP - I'm with you. All my decorations are at the top of the tree because of DD taking them off and putting them back on x 1000 per day. Plus DS trying to eat/hide them all.

Yesterday I let my guard down, and after requests from DD, let her put some chocolate decorations on the tree. Next thing, I catch DS eating one, foil and all!!!

still haven't bought one

My ds2 (age 4) was cmplaining that he could still see the tree through all the tinsel

Ours has all the glass stuff at the top and fabric, straw, wooden stuff at the bottom!