This is my first Exchange, and I got a very awesome Santa! Unfortunately, I signed up for this exchange knowing that I would be picking up stakes and going far, far away right in the middle of the shipping window. I'm a bad giftee.

My Santa (Mmnmm000) was very nice and kept a close eye on where my gift was and it made it in time to get packed into the rest of the moving boxes!

I woke up this morning to a knock at the door. My other half intercepted the packages (my yarn from Darn Good Yarn came too, it was a wonderful yarn day!) and handed them over to me.

"Man, this package is heavy." I said holding the big, white, taped box. Then the unboxing began. I made sure to document the process (below) to ensure that I captured the generous spirit of my Santa. Ignore the random dog toys and chews. Our puppy is at daycare and will not be making a photographic appearance this time.

When I've made it to my new digs, I will pull out this yarn and make something amazing. Perhaps baby hats. More dishcloths to practice my patterns and stitching techniques.

I got the series Weeds on Black Friday, and going through this yarn made me think of the theme song "Ticky Tacky," (start humming along folks!) because with this yarn: there's a fluffy teal one, and a white and grey striped one, and two balls of Bucilla spectrum .....and they will all live very happily in my yarn stash down the way.

There's Bernat Satin and soft fluffy baby yarn and one black and one white fuzzy novelty yarn..... and they will all live very happily in my project knitting bag.

A kind sweet loving note that my Santa wrote where she tells me that the pound of light blue is Sugars and Creme, and one more very lovely skein of teal blue worsted weight. And they will all live very happily as projects on my knitting looms.

Okay, so the last paragraph didn't quite fit the rhythm of the "Ticky Tacky" song, but I was too busy humming and annoying my other half to really notice on the first go.

I love all the blue yarns. It's my favorite color and I'm so happy my Santa included so many shades of it. I'm really excited to work with all the new textures. I absolutely love it.

Thank you Mmnmm000 for the ten balls of yarn. You have made my first Exchange a wonderful experience, and I really appreciate how you stayed on top of the package's location for me. You are the bestest yarn Santa. ¡Gracias!