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<div class="separator" style="clear:both;text-align:left;">We started Christmas Day morning with the two packages we suspected from their shape were coffee mugs &#8212; and we were right! Thank you, Brian and Renee. We were playing Scrabble just last night; now we have appropriately nerdy mugs for hot cocoa when we hold a rematch 🙂</div>
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<div class="separator" style="clear:both;text-align:left;">The cats were initially disinterested in present-unwrapping (Teazle is even cleaning her toes!). But soon, both were in on the action. Gerry was particularly interested in helping Hanna upwrap presents from Janet and Mark:</div>
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<div class="separator" style="clear:both;text-align:left;">And Teazle&#8217;s new favorite toy (of this half hour) was a bow from Diana and Collin:</div>
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<p>We put out the runner from Grandma Cook, made by master weavers in Sweden who serve the Swedish royal family!</p>
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<p>I particularly enjoy the leaping pig!</p>
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<p>We had to keep these little guys up high away from Teazle&#8217;s explorations&#8230;</p>
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<p>And I&#8217;ll leave it there as we head out on this cloudy Boxing Day to <a href="http://thinkingcup.com/">the thinking cup</a> for a few hours of reading and lattes. I hope everyone had a lovely Christmas Day and is looking forward to a relaxing as we head into the final days of 2012 and the dawn of 2013.</p>
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