Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for December 13, 2022

300! That’s nothing!

I’m guilty of rearranging ornaments.

Ah, typical children, getting carried away! When they get older, they will come to understand that you don’t redecorate the tree until the cats undecorate it for you. Thankfully, this crew is wise to the ways of People-kittens and will wait patiently until just before the 2AM zoomies to do a proper undecorating job. (And the Circle of Decorating will continue as Nature intended.)

I love the pig tails!

I recognize that worried big brother look when the younger ones want to . . . help.

Puck is just so adorable, as always. I just love him here in the final panel

This is lovely. When I was a kid, my entire family helped decorate the tree.

We are getting our tree tomorrow qnd our son is arriving from LA on Wednesday. He is a big help in decorating. We like to get our tree late so it will last through the 12 days of Christmas and Orthodox Christmas.

And they’re all within easy reach of Lupin.

There are all sorts of gorgeous unbreakables.

I can remember my kids doing that..my grandkids and my cats, doing that…

I’d say it’s pretty good odds that several of the ornaments bouncing free in panel 4 wind up under the couch. It is a great temptation for the household cats.

So cute!

Ok this can’t be allowed.the kids must have much more help. Pronto all hands, paws on deck

OT: :-)

At first I was afraid, I was petrified

Kept thinking I could never live through a rough and bumpy Yuletide

But then I spent so many nights hearing silly Christmas songs

And I grew strong

And I learned to sing along

And so I won’t crack

And I won’t break

Just being handled by you is like a tiny earthquake

And several mild aftershocks, I could get through easily

If I’d known for just one second not to worry ’bout gravity

Go on now, go, drop me on the floor

Just toss me around now

‘Cause I’m not fragile anymore

Lupin’s the one who tried to hurl me and make me fly

But I won’t crumble

From landing from on high

Oh no, not I, I will survive

Oh, as long as I am shatterproof, I know I’ll stay alive

I’ve got all Noel to live

And I’ve got all my shine to give and I’ll survive

I will survive, hey, hey

- Dino Fekaris / Frederick J. Perren – I Will Survive – Gloria Gaynor

“So many balls!” indeed! Love the unbreakable ornaments.

I tried ‘unbreakable’ satin ornaments once. The cats unwound one all around the chair and table legs!

This is the exact reason I don’t help decorate the tree. It is stupid to hang decorations on the tree only to have the wife move them all to where she wants them. I put up the tree, I take down the tree, I don’t decorate the tree.

The only tree ornaments I have left are in a nice bowl on the coffee table.

You just have to keep doing it until you get it right.

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Now, defining “get it right”… aye, there’s the rub….

My Niece adapted a great idea for her perpetually decorating Boy and Girl when they were toddlers: she created a Christmas Tree and ornament shapes out of felt. The tree was tacked to the wall, and then the kids could decorate it to their hearts content. Since the felt sticks to itself, there were no wires to worry over and the kiddos enjoyed themselves immensely.

OT: Hitting the road…

If at first you don’t succeed, have some ice cream.

I think I know a cat or 2 who will help the Girl with those Oopsies.

I have a friend who sought to stop his cats from repeatedly tipping the Xmas tree over. He suspended it from the ceiling, wire tied along the trunk to a green rope, and put diapers in a tupperware and affixed that to the bottom and soaked the diapers w/water, so the tree water wouldn’t spill. The next day he realized what he had created was “Foucat’s pendulum” as his cats rode around on their new gently swinging friend.

When our granddaughters were preschoolers they loved to make elaborate toy arrangements on the floor, kind of like a mosaic.

OT: About those tree decorations…

See today’s Pluggers. My mom has a gazillion tree ornaments, but she doesn’t put them all on the tree every year; she has a few favorites that go up every year, & she swaps out the rest. Otherwise her tree would look like Mrs. Plugger’s!

https://www.gocomics.com/pluggers/2022/12/13

That is some beautiful art work! So much detail and emotion/story telling. Just beautiful!!!

My niece decorated our tree when she was about three. She would hang each ornament on the same low branch, and when she turned around to get another one, one of us would move it to a higher spot. We did the whole tree that way!

Strange. Cartoon kids are usually very slow to develop, but Ms Dunn’s childer are maturing considerably faster than Real Time, or so I think. Though I haven’t been keeping a diary.

We weren’t allowed to rearrange each other’s ornaments as kids because it would inevitably result in fights.

mkhy

I got a cat a few days ago! She is soooo cute!

Love it!