I was on my way out of the door when I saw two packages on my doorstep. I couldn't open them right away because I was running late, so the added anticipation of knowing that I had two packages to come back to was just a good feeling today.

I opened the package with my daughter and right away we see a cute blue stuffed pachyderm with a penchant for peanuts! (see attached note). My daughter was so excited, and as any parent can tell you, that is by far the best gift you can get!

In true Billy Mayes fashion, there was MORE! A darth vader action figure! Super cool! My daughter didn't care for him, so I guess I can keep him!

There was also a bag of fancy schmancy chocolates for my wife with a note thanking her for putting up with me receiving gifts in the mail from strangers and dealing with a husband on reddit in general. Thanks, S.S. between that and the starbucks gift card you sent earlier in the week, you are my wife's new online best buddy!

There was also 3 cups with crazy straws! My kid loved this, she loves that there's 3 and we can all "match." Again, parents of 3 year-olds know the value of good cups with lids! There was a note inside too, very awesome to read them all and see the thought and care that went into it.

Last but not least was a set of minecraft cardboard heads. Scary enough to be cool, but not scary enough to run out of the room (like darth vader was apparently). There was a note with this to let us know its just fun to pretend to be a monster and ROWR! So my daughter and her new blue elephant did just that!

This really was an awesome gift! We got to open it as a family, have some fun doing it and realize that reddit has one of the best communities out there.

Thanks again Santa!