I will decorate with my daughter, a tradition that has not stopped even though she is not a little girl anymore and in the army. She comes home tonight and is excited to put up the "stuff".. dont you start without me! I have taken to sitting back and letting her play decorator it makes her so happy and this makes me smile. Friday will be one decorating extravaganza. I just glittered up 2 dozen pinecones to hang from the garland over the door, hot cider on the stove just to "smell up the house" and loud old fashioned Christmas carols that we can sing off key together .. the men in my house avoid us like the plague during this time for some reason!..(Note: As to mistletoe its hemlock.. highly poisonous to animals.children so artifical is always good if its real take a bit of netting and ribbon it around the greenery so not a leaf falls off. Poinsettas are also toxic (darn it) but the use me year after year ones look pretty good and require no water!.