madness, oh my gracious. Will you get another one? Did you have the cats last year? What makes this year different?

Our tree crashed to the ground breaking several favorite ornaments a couple years ago. It was so sad. Everyone was in other rooms and we heard this huge crash. It was awful. We felt like chopping it up and throwing it away, but we practiced self-control and put the dang thing back up.

While we were busy rehanging lights and cleaning up broken ornaments our son took all the pieces of my husband's ornament from the year he was born and glued it all back together without our knowing. When things calmed down he presented it to him. That is nowone of my favorite Christmas memories.