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So anyone is going to make some gingerbread decorations? Well, I don't have time to make like one of these decorations 'cuz too much busy for me.

I didn't, nor do I plan on, making any baked gingerbread decorations, but I did make six very cute gingerbread men out of cardstock. I painted different faces and clothing on each one using 3-D fabric paint. I put them up along the outside wall of my staircase, underneath some of the steps, so they look like they're climbing up along the outside of the staircase wall.

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Hmmm... I couldn't do that. Cat would have them scattered all over the house.

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Ever see Christmas Vacation Spooky? You're gonna have a smoking outline of a cat under your chair.

My daughter and I buy one of those pre-fab kits of gingerbread houses every year. We have one at home but haven't put it together yet.

The idea of edible tree ornaments is really old. I believe the first ones ever made, centuries ago, were edible. But at our house, it wouldn't work because of the pets. I do manage to hang (plastic wrapped) candy canes on our tree each year. Family members pick one off as they like throughout the holiday season. They make great stirrers in hot chocolate, etc.

My cat's really good about the tree. I remember her first Christmas with us, when she was six months old. I would hear her during the middle of the night playing with ornaments. My bedroom was on the second floor and I could hear ornaments rolling around on the foyer floor, which was hardwood. She managed to get the some of the ornaments off the tree and roll them from the living room out into the foyer. At least they weren't made of glass. Her favorite thing is to sit underneath the tree. She also loves when I take the tree out of the box. It's the type where you have to stick each color-coded branch into the pole. She loves to play "jungle cat" and hide among all the branches when they're laid out on the floor.

When I was 10, our cat decided to climb to the top of the tree or jumped up there -- I'm not sure how he got up there since I only saw him once he made it to the top -- and knocked it over. I also remember him running down the hallway (it was a long hallway) with an entire strand of tinsel garland. This happened on New Year's Day. At least he waited until after Christmas to wreck the tree!

I would never put glass ornaments on my tree. They're so pretty and I used to have some beautiful ones years ago, but I went with unbreakable when I had my kids. Having a cat also makes me thankful I don't have any glass ones. Besides the kids and cat, I'm glad I use unbreakable ones because while hanging ornaments, sometimes I drop them. I still have a few glass ornaments left, but they're used as tabletop decorations, contained in a glass dish or jar.

Thankfully the cat whose house I occupy has no interest in Christmas trees. Only once did she take an interest when she was a kitten, and I found an ornament on the first floor under the couch during spring cleaning. She had to get it off the tree, down the stairs and to the far end of the house, miraculously not shattering it.

Since then she could care less.

Ooooh I can imagine! I bet you were ready to string that cat up! hehe