I am completely overwhelmed, I don't even know where to start.

OK, so this morning I got up just after 6am with two very lively, very hungry children. I fed them, polluted their and my brains with Christmas Recipe Television and we snuggled under a blanket. My Santa had marked my gift shipped yesterday and messaged me to let me know the gifts were probably coming today, but I wasn't expecting the Amazon man at only about ten past the crack of dawn. He staggered up to our gate carrying three parcels and when I opened them I found SEVEN giftwrapped parcels, all with lovely notes on them. It was clear from the notes that this was a family gift, so we all settled in and opened this amazing set of gifts.

The first gift was Uno. My daughter loves Uno, she played it a lot with her friends at Kindergarten and was delighted to show me how it's done (Note: I made a video of her, but I can't get it off my phone, once I figure it out I will update).

Then: the Downton Abbey cookbook - it's been on my wishlist for ages and I'm really looking forward to settling in and reading it and trying some of the things in it.

Third, a gift that said my husband could help me with it ... For Science! He was very excited, so I let him open this one, and we revealed another book: Cooking for Geeks! I am already completely fascinated by this book, it contains so much interesting information about the science behind cooking, things you can do at home to sort of replicate professional cooking, different hacks, so much interesting stuff. I have had to put this down to stop me from ignoring my children - besides, I keep telling them it's rude to play with a gift before saying thank you and we've already broken that rule with Uno!

The fourth gift was also for my husband: The Geek's Guide To World Domination. He was a little suspicious of Secret Santa, but appears thoroughly converted. (He said to tell you thank you very much, Secret Santa, and then he vanished with his book.)

Number 5 said it had nothing to do with my favourite movie except the name, and sure enough: Labyrinth the board game! We love playing games and I'm really looking forward to playing this with my monster children. A race for treasures in a moving maze! It sounds exactly like the games my mother always refused to play with me when I was a kid, and I'm easily as excited as the Big Kid.

Gift 6 of 7 said that although we weren't able to visit the real thing this would bring it to us. It's only a Northern Lights projector! I answered the question about where I'd most like to go with "to see the Northern Lights", and I am so amazed by this incredibly creative take on it. The gift note said that maybe my baby would love this too, and if his interest in the box is anything to go by Santa was dead right. We're just waiting for it to go dark so we can turn it on.

The final gift was a large heavy book-shaped gift, and the note said that Santa remembered this as a part of their childhood. It's a stunningly beautiful edition of the Chronicles of Narnia.

Santa, you have gone so far above and beyond for us and I feel like "thank you" is pathetically inadequate. But thank you, from the bottom of my rather weepy overwhelmed heart. You have been amazing. Amazing. I would love to know who you are, if you'd like to reveal yourself?