Christmas chaos

The New York Times has a pretty funny compendium of Christmas-related domestic disasters written by Joyce Wadler.

“The cats are already obsessed with the tree, and they drink the water under the tree and get sick all the time,” Ms. Fuller says. “They start attacking the tree, eating feathers, like, daily, vomiting feathers. My husband wanted to kill me; his eyes are swollen, he’s puffing and sneezing, he’s saying, ‘I’m allergic to the feathers.’ I’m saying, ‘Honey, just take a Zyrtec, you’re fine, it’s hay fever.’ ”