Holy crap!!! I could tell from the sweet messages my SS sent me that I would be getting something great, but when I opened the box I was beside myself. My SS went so above and beyond!

In my bio, I kept a lot of the same info from past exchanges, and at the last minute, I decided to mention that I'm a ginger. I always love when I can get a sense of who I'm giving gifts to, and I figured that it might give my SS an idea of what I look like. She messaged me right away to say that she's a ginger too! What are the odds? (My statistics nerd side would actually love to know the odds; anyone feel like calculating it?)

There were so many gifts and each one was lovingly wrapped. Where do I even start?

I looked around inside the box and spotted an envelope that said "Open First". I loved that my SS had said that, because I ALWAYS open the card first, and there had just been a post on the front page about doing that. I cracked up because the front of the card said "Holy crap", which is exactly what I said when I opened the box :) Inside was a beautiful note. My SS mentioned that it's nice to buy gifts for young men but it was "an excellent change of pace to finally buy adult girly things!" I loved that because in all the gift exchanges I've done I've always had a male giftee, which is fine but I'd love to buy gifts for a girl someday too!

The first gift I opened is a beautiful infinity scarf! The photo does no justice to the color - it's a warm hunter green with a lovely fringe. (Apologies in advance on the potato quality of some of these photos. We put LED bulbs in our kitchen and they look fine in person but make for some hideous photos!)

The next gift I opened blew my mind - it's 2 HUGE Reese's peanut butter cups - my favorite! When I wasn't looking my husband cracked into it almost immediately, and before all the gifts were open we had finished almost half of a cup, hahaha. Delicious, thank you!

The next 3 gifts were three different scented candle sets - vanilla, pumpkin spice, and mulled cider. They all smell wonderful, especially the vanilla!

The next one is one of my favorite things: a candle lantern! It's absolutely beautiful. I have a wall in my bedroom that's teal with all black and white decor, so it's the perfect finishing touch :)

After that I opened the softest, coziest part: a gorgeous, super-soft throw blanket in my favorite color! It's to die for - so warm and fuzzy. By this point I had said some variation of "holy shit, this is unreal, this is too much" about a hundred times, haha. There were SO many gifts and they're all so perfect!

The last ones I opened were for my little guy Eddie. He LOVED them!! There's chicken jerky treats and the cutest Kong plush toy ever. He was standing next to me while I opened everything, so it was so much fun to open a gift and give it to him. He ran off and played with Maisy, his cousin. It was hard to get a good photo of them, but they had so much fun with it. I know he loves a toy when he brings it outside to play then lovingly carries it back inside :) It's been a couple days since I opened it and he's still playing with it all the time, thank you!!

Last but not least, there were lots and lots of peppermint and chocolate candy canes, yum!

Meghan, I truly cannot thank you enough for all of your thoughtfulness and generosity. You captured all of my favorite things in an amazing set of gifts. I am floored by all the time and love you put into everything. Thank you so, so much! Happy Holidays!

xo, poppopintheattic