This is my first year participating in the Reddit SS and I couldn't have been more thrilled! I spent a lot of time mulling over what to send my giftee, pouring over their likes/preferences/posts/threads, asking for my husbands input, etc. And it looks like my SS did the same! (except I don't think he had a husband to consult).

My SS included very thoughtful gifts carefully selected based on my hobbies, my favorite shows, my own gift desires, and even my preferences on scent!

In addition to picking these gifts, he also included a wonderful letter detailing why he selected these gifts, and (as I had requested!) a little bit about himself.

But enough chatter! Onto the HAUL.

The first 2, the GOT cookbook and the the oven mitt, are actually low key favorites already. Both mine and Mr Turtles. Not only do I enjoy baking, and we both enjoy cooking, but particularly old timey (?) cooking. A top phrase in our household is Hot Pies "YOU GOT TA BROWN THAAA BUTTAHHHH", so when I told Mr Turtle about this gift he immediately listed several GOT foods for me to look up. So coupled with the awesome mitt we're gonna get a lot of action outta these two.

Next, the book! I love to read, like... a lot. I have seen this series in stores, but have never picked it up so I will have to give it a shot!

The cup! I love a lot of popular series', but Grey's Anatomy was something I only discovered when I was going through a rather hard time in my life 6 yrs ago and it's been one of my favorites ever since. Not only do I enjoy this gift at face value, but it's great to know my SS and I have a mutual love here (have been trying to introduce Mr Turtle to the amazing world of Shondaland). I can't recall if I mentioned it in my preferences, but I also collect coffee cups. Not in a weird way! But I just like having missmatched cups in the cupboard that show where I've been, or what I like, or just funny cups, and this is my only TV show cup so that's cool!

The bigfoot air freshener is hilarious, Mr Turtle is eyeing it ("but it's my favorite smell!" gtfo outta here with that shit boi), but it's MINE.

And last, but not least! I mentioned to my SS that I like to travel and meet people and love getting gifts that tell me about a place or person. So he included a collectors coin for the USAF ThunderBirds! My SS couldn't have know, but I was raised in a military family, and it's a tradition for us to send deployed family and friends care packages every yr, and for the last ~5 yrs it's been with friends of friends of acquaintances and strangers as we have fewer active service family members. So I do have my SS's username and will be reaching out to him to see when/if he deploys or if he has good friends deploying in need of cheer this coming yr.