Holy crap.

That's all I can say about this gift. I came home from work today to find many Amazon boxes stacked by my door. At first, I was a bit freaked. I hadn't ordered anything from Amazon. It wasn't until I bent over to check the boxes that I saw my Reddit name emblazoned on them... and then I began to get really, really excited. Really excited.

It took me 3 rounds to haul everything upstairs to my apartment. I then stacked them up and took the obligatory "look at my box haul" picture before starting in on each of the boxes. One of my cats, Rustopher, thought the packaging made a great set of stairs!

Box 1: Two books I'd put in my technology book wishlist. You see, I'm a technology integration specialist, so I work with both students and teachers on a daily basis. The books will help me to provide more resources for my staff, as well as more knowledge for myself. I cannot wait to tear into both of these books, and one of them I already have a person in mind to recommend it to. She'll love it!

Box 2: Expo markers and refillable lead. You can never have too many Expo markers for dry erase boards, and my gifter made sure of that. The lead meant there must be pencils to match somewhere... and I couldn't wait to find out!

Box 3: Pencils and cap erasers! Hey gifter, thanks for the caps... I hate regular pencil erasers and cap erasers are so much nicer! Now I don't have to ask students to bring their pencils to the computer lab and deal with them forgetting...I can have a basket of ready to go pencils on hand. Boom!

Box 4: Hey, there's those mechanical pencils! All... 72 of them??? o.O Wow Santa, that's amazing...I didn't even know they sold boxes of 72 mechanical pencils! Oooh filler paper! Now I don't have to borrow from other teachers! And styli for the iPad carts at the elementary school! Yes!

Box 5 & 6: I'm gonna say right now that these two boxes were the biggest surprise of this haul. I already felt spoiled rotten with my gifts. Little did I know that I would tear into these boxes and find... 30 sets of headphones???? Man, Santa you are totally rockin' here! These will help out so many students and be well used. I cannot believe you got so many, but I am so happy you did!

Overall, this was an amazing set of gifts. I could not have asked for a better Santa for the teacher exchange this year. I wish I could thank you personally for all of the goodies, but since you have remained anonymous, I will simply say this: Thank you for all that you have done for me and the students that I work with. Your gifts will be well used and appreciated. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Update 9/17/15: Earlier this week I received yet another package from my Santa. It was a tiny manila envelope all the way from China. This time, I opened it to find a set of 30 colorful 4 gb USB drives! This is perfect for my computer classes, as my younger elementary students are going to be using them quite frequently. Santa, you've made this year pretty darn awesome so far!