How you stress me! My gosh, in all the years John and I have had a Christmas together (8 I believe) I have never had such a problem with my tree. It started out as a beautiful tree, Johnny and I decorated it while drinking egg nog and watching old home videos of me. The finishing touch on our tree is the candy canes and this is where it all started. This year Hiccup decided she was going to start eating the candy canes off the tree. Everyday I was coming home from work I finding little pieces of candy around the tree and pine needles spread along the floor. She has never been a chewer or messed with any of our things so I was really surprised. Since it was so out of character for her I really didnt think she would keep it up, figured she must just need some attention. After taking her for some good long walks I thought we would get past this candy cane eating phase. I was wrong, she took it to the next level and went crazy eating all the candy she could reach, pawing at the tree and biting the lights. Once all the candy was gone she must have been trying to find out what else she could eat on the tree moving onto the ornaments. Needless to say our tree was
looking pretty bad. Looking at the tree I made a decision -the lights were out, half the ornaments were off, the branches were falling and there was a huge hole in the middle. Only 2 days until Christmas, this was not an acceptable place for Santa to leave presents so I took what was left of it off and threw the tree out. (Yes I hauled the tree up our steep hill all by myself - working out is doing some good) You would think that this close to Christmas you'd be able to get a good deal on a tree - wrong they are still 35-40.00 it is insane. So I am on a mission tomorrow to find a good(reasonably priced) tree to decorate, enjoy and put presents under. Wish me luck!
How you stress me! My gosh, in all the years John and I have had a Christmas together (8 I believe) I have never had such a problem with my tree. It started out as a beautiful tree, Johnny and I decorated it while drinking egg nog and watching old home videos of me. The finishing touch on our tree is the candy canes and this is where it all started. This year Hiccup decided she was going to start eating the candy canes off the tree. Everyday I was coming home from work I finding little pieces of candy around the tree and pine needles spread along the floor. She has never been a chewer or messed with any of our things so I was really surprised. Since it was so out of character for her I really didnt think she would keep it up, figured she must just need some attention. After taking her for some good long walks I thought we would get past this candy cane eating phase. I was wrong, she took it to the next level and went crazy eating all the candy she could reach, pawing at the tree and biting the lights. Once all the candy was gone she must have been trying to find out what else she could eat on the tree moving onto the ornaments. Needless to say our tree was 
looking pretty bad. Looking at the tree I made a decision -the lights were out, half the ornaments were off, the branches were falling and there was a huge hole in the middle. Only 2 days until Christmas, this was not an acceptable place for Santa to leave presents so I took what was left of it off and threw the tree out. (Yes I hauled the tree up our steep hill all by myself - working out is doing some good) You would think that this close to Christmas you'd be able to get a good deal on a tree - wrong they are still 35-40.00 it is insane. So I am on a mission tomorrow to find a good(reasonably priced) tree to decorate, enjoy and put presents under. Wish me luck!
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