Youngest son was born 4 weeks before Christmas. He had just turned one, when we put up the tree. He was so enthralled with it, he forgot that he couldn't balance on his own, and just stood there, not holding on to anything. We all started praising him for standing up on his own, made him jump, so he fell over and bumped his bum.....
My decorations will be going up Christmas eve, then taken down January 1st! And its only because we have a baby now. Normally we wouldn't bother at all.
I don't have a picture of our tree, but it's only like 5'9"-6 ft tall. Pretty short. / It's silver and it's very old. The presents are like overflowing from it. The overflowing never gets old, it happens every year! We also have the lights up on the house, colorful lights on the hedge bush, bright, shimmering lights on this other bush I do not know the name of and two deer. one moves it's head side to side and the other one up and down. Imagine the hassle to get those back down and fold the deer back together and cramming them back into the tiny boxes... without breaking the bulbs.