‘From nowhere he took a run-up and jumped into the Christmas tree’
After major setbacks and an eventful year, it is high time to spoil yourself and your child with an extra luxurious Christmas, but then something unexpected should not suddenly happen.
Veerle (40), mother of Mees (11):
“Together with my son, I had bought a huge Christmas tree in 2021, under the guise: it’s K-corona, we allow ourselves a hysterical tree reaching to the ceiling. He just fit in the living room. We spent the whole day rigging.
Everything fit: crafts by Mees, kitsch balls in the shape of hamburgers and pineapples and brightly colored balls. We bought meters long lights and a shiny garland finished it off. We loved it. But Sjimmie, our intensely lethargic, elderly cat, thought so too.
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Everything in tatters
He never puts out a single leg if it’s not necessary and he’d rather be lazy than tired. I don’t know what possessed him, but out of nowhere he took a run and jumped into the tree. Broken balls, glass everywhere and thousands of needles: a havoc.
“Broken balls, glass everywhere and thousands of needles: a havoc”
Mees and I first screamed and cried very loudly and then started to restore things as best as we could. We hung the leftover balls that were whole in the front. We cut away the branches that were broken and we spiced it up a bit with what we could still find at the supermarket in terms of decoration material.
We bet that Sjimmie was so shocked by our screams that he wouldn’t do it a second time. That was true. The bitch did gnaw another thread. That turned out to be precisely the one of the thousand lights that worked according to the system: one broken, then all. No, it was not exactly a success, that tree.”
This article appears in Kek Mama 12-2022, in stores from November 29.
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