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Today is a day that will live in infamy in the mouse kingdom under the kitchen cabinet in the Hamilton household. We caught two mice in traps this morning. I hope they both had a good Christmas before their demise. They were scampering around being spotted by the kids for the last couple months. Back in October, Joe and Emma spotted "a little black mouse" in the laundry room. I set up traps but caught nothing, so we thought they were just imagining things or saw a cricket or something. Then this week Lindy saw a mouse twice. We set up traps a couple days ago, but they just ate the cheese off the trap without setting it off. So, we knew there was a mouse in the house. I went and got better traps (we lulled them into complacency with the "non-working" ones) and set them up again last night. We were woken up this morning by the "smack" down in the kitchen of one of the traps going off. We had actually caught two mice in separate traps in the kitchen. Maybe one saw that his comrade had fallen in the line of duty and could no longer go on alone (we hope) and solemnly laid his neck on the line.

Well, I guess I ought to talk about Christmas. Lindy got a guitar (which I think Mommy is going to use as much as if not more than Lindy). She also got a beautiful porcelain doll with long blonde hair. Joe got an electronic Star Wars battleship game and a huge electrical science kit. Lindy also got a water science kit. Emma got a Guess Who memory game which was very popular. She also got a magnetic Disney Princess dress up kit. Hopefully this will replace her sticker fetish. I got some Teaching Company courses on DVD and CD for myself. Deanne got some exotic skin cream and, of course, the guitar. The kids all got a bunch of other stuff as well.