Oh Christmas tree...

Goodness gracious.....our poor tree. I should have warned it the minute we picked it out.....

That it would never make it around our house. Did I mention last year I didn't even decorate the tree. We picked out a tree, put lights on it, and left it naked. Why? Really, do you not know? Yep.....kids. They abuse, poke, strip, and pull on this poor, poor tree. I once again put on the lights and this year I pulled out the decorations. I carefully started placing them on the tree......strategically placed with unbreakables at the bottom....see I am pretty smart. Did that stop them, oh no it did not. They pulled them off just as quick as I put them on. Finally after about an hour of chasing them to get the ornaments out of the hands and putting them back on the tree....repeat...repeat....I gave up. The bottom half has no decorations. Hmm. And that still isn't good enough. Porter yanks the lights off. Sawyer gets the broom and tries to get decorations from the top half. And Danner steals the ones he knocks down and hides them for herself. I find little stashes of decorations in little piles around the house. Under the table, behind the couch, under her bed....etc.  I have had to sweep up 2 broken ones just today....at this rate we won't have any ornaments left by the time Christmas gets here.

Am I the only one with this problem?