My Dear Diary Santa parsed my weirdness super well, for which I am grateful. She shipped really, really fast, too, and it was a very nice surprise to find a gift waiting for me this morning.

And wow, what an awesome gift! The note she taped to the box (which is awesome and cute; I am a sucker for cute things) said she might have gone a little overboard but wanted to make sure I'd have something left after the kids raided it. You can tell from a couple of the pictures that the littlest was already trying as I was just starting to look at things.

I am seriously still trying to parse this awesomeness. There are two sets of pens! Three really big sets of stickers I haven't had time to go through quite yet, a date stamp, sticky notes, a bunch of journals--seriously like nine of them, adult reward stickers (don't we all need that?), and even an absolutely gorgeous skein of super soft silk yarn to, as she said, inspire the grand plans I have for the knitting journal I received in a previous exchange.

This is, without exaggeration, one of the nicest gifts I've ever gotten. I cannot say THANK YOU! anywhere near enough. I am going to upload the pictures and go off and brag about this everywhere now. :)