I had a basic profile of my hobbies and also mentioned I would be most interested in something my Secret Santa likes. I thought it would be nice to know something about the mystery net user who took part in the exchange. I also mentioned that I have a family in hopes of a warning if I can open it on Christmas morning with everyone around or should do so privately. I received a nice note acknowledging my family and that the package contained things he liked when he was younger which was very intriguing to us all!

The package, wrapped with penguins, sat under the tree until Christmas morning. My eldest is in love with penguins and whether it was a Reddit reference or not it was a hit right out of the shipping box for this alone. It drew a lot of attention from the kids, which was something I had not anticipated. They're young enough that the idea of a complete stranger sending a package from a mystery place in the world was both unbelievable and exciting- as it was for me! (which is why I signed up)

Christmas morning I was very pleased! I received two children's books, one being Green Eggs and Ham with flaps you can open (very popular in the house right now!) and a Gears of War hat. It was nice to know more about my gifter seeing as the Reddit community is so large and diverse. The main portion of the gift was a Nerf Blaster that shoots out foamies! Yeeeehaw! This was huge on Christmas morning! We were all fighting over it and then my eldest received a marshmallow gun from an uncle later in the day... an epic battle of Nerf vs. Marshmallow followed. My youngest liked the battle strickly for eating floor marshmallows. It's hard to tell who won for sure, but I'm going to call it and say it was me. Really, we all won :)

Thanks Secret Santa!