After a day at work with not enough coffee I came home to a package from my rematch Santa! It was a very cheerful box that immediately set a nice mood. Inside were nicely wrapped presents (don't feel bad about your wrapping skills, Santa. I too know the bane of poor wrapping skill, but I love the sight of wrapped gifts.)

Inside was a heartfelt letter. It's nice to connect with people through exchanges like this. Santa, don't worry about not donating. I added that option in case international shipping would be too expensive. You did an awesome job! You got me exactly what I was hoping for. :D

So my rematch Santa got me:

1) German sweets! A gigantic Milka chocolate bar with caramel. Werther's Orignal (My daughter loves them, but we ran out of them a few days ago. Now I don't have to break the news to a toddler that we're out of Werther's.) Haribo Lakritz Schnecken (I have fond childhood memories of those.) And Erfhischungsstäbchen (I am eating those while writing this.)

2) 2 puzzle post cards. I haven't solved them yet, but they are very cute.

3) A DVD of the movie Der Plan (The Adjustment Bureau) with Matt Damon. I can watch it in English or in German if I want to brush up my high school German skills. It looks very interesting and I haven't seen it yet, but I think it's funny that Santa picked a movie with Matt Damon as my husband and I sometimes yell MATT DAMON! at random intervals at each other (a reference to another movie I haven't seen. Yet.)

4) The main gift. In my notes I mentioned that while repotting my orchids at the office, I was one pot short and used my coffee mug to pot one of my orchids. I lamented the fact that the standard office coffee cups are too small for my coffee needs. So my rematch Santa got me a giant Darth Vader (yay!) mug. It's huge! No more going back and forth between the coffee machine.

I used it right away to make me some ginger-lemon tea (no coffee in the evenings for me.)

Thank you so much, Rematch Santa! (The Erfrischungsstäbchen are all eaten now. Yum!)