I gotta tell 'ya my first experience with RedditGifts kinda sucked - my giftee never acknowledged the gift I sent them. I thought, geez, should I have even signed up?

Then, a few days ago I opened my front door to go check the mailbox for mail and there sat a package addressed to me on my front porch. I've been having a rough time lately due to a chronic medical condition and I had totally forgotten about being in the Sci-Fi Exchange 2016 so I thought to myself "Huh, I don't remember ordering anything lately ..."

Took it inside and placed it by my chair and there it sat until the next day when my day was going to hell-in-a-handbasket and I remembered it. I lifted it up onto my lap and opened it up while I was still wiping away tears from dealing with the pain associated with my disease ... and within this plain 'ole cardboard box nestled my salvation in the form of Bay-Max and Baby Groot!

My RedditGifts Santa had read my little blurb and zeroed in on the one part of it that must have spoken to them also - "... and am more into the 'hope' of Sci Fi, not the horror" because peeking out at me were two of the sweetest characters in recent Sci-Fi cinema! Bay-Max and Baby Groot!!

My day became substantial better! Out of the blue on a really shitty day came a gift from a stranger that reaffirmed my faith in the hope of a better day, a kinder world, a more empathetic human race all contained within a plain cardboard box, embodied in two little plastic figurines from a stranger I'll never meet in person.

I know this seems rather silly coming from a woman that is a Nana to 10 grandkids, but isn't that what giving and receiving a gift is all about? You just don't know what's in the box until you open it up and it reveals itself. In my case this particular gift will continue to keep giving well into the future every time I look at it because it will remind me of one really shitty day that delivered a box full of hope, kindness and empathy and my day changed into one of the best I've ever lived!

From the bottom of my heart I want to thank my RedditGifts Santa and send them a sincere blessing of karmic reward for what they probably thought was no big deal and which in fact really truly was salvation! Blessings & Thank You!!