This is what the holiday season should be all about.An anonymous couple walked up to the customer service counter Thursday at the Toys"R"Us on Cambridge Road in Woburn and secretly paid off the layaways of eight unsuspecting customers in line.Tiffany Nelson-Boyd, a mother of two young children, was one of those customers."She said, 'Your secret Santa took care of it,'" Nelson-Boyd said, remembering what the customer service rep telling her when she finally got to the front of the line. "I said, 'What are you talking about?' And she pointed to the couple and said, 'They're your secret Santa.'"Nelson-Boyd, who has spent years trying to catch up on medical bills after a long and costly battle with cancer, broke down. She says she cried, and hugged the couple as tightly as she could."I wish I could hug them again and say, 'Thank you' over and over and over again,'" she told NewsCenter 5's Liam Martin in an exclusive interview Friday. "Because I will never, for the rest of my life, forget that. That's a lesson I will teach my children -- that you put someone else ahead of yourself, especially this time of year."She said she hopes this helps make this Christmas particularly special for her family -- her husband, a 4-year-old boy and a 7-month-old girl."Those two angels that provided a nice Christmas morning for us makes it that much more special," she said.The couple paid the layaways of seven other customers, including a couple who had a sizeable baby registry set up at the store.In total, the anonymous donors spent $1,200, according to a Toys"R"Us spokesman.

This is what the holiday season should be all about.

An anonymous couple walked up to the customer service counter Thursday at the Toys"R"Us on Cambridge Road in Woburn and secretly paid off the layaways of eight unsuspecting customers in line.


Tiffany Nelson-Boyd, a mother of two young children, was one of those customers.

"She said, 'Your secret Santa took care of it,'" Nelson-Boyd said, remembering what the customer service rep telling her when she finally got to the front of the line. "I said, 'What are you talking about?' And she pointed to the couple and said, 'They're your secret Santa.'"

Nelson-Boyd, who has spent years trying to catch up on medical bills after a long and costly battle with cancer, broke down. She says she cried, and hugged the couple as tightly as she could.

"I wish I could hug them again and say, 'Thank you' over and over and over again,'" she told NewsCenter 5's Liam Martin in an exclusive interview Friday. "Because I will never, for the rest of my life, forget that. That's a lesson I will teach my children -- that you put someone else ahead of yourself, especially this time of year."

She said she hopes this helps make this Christmas particularly special for her family -- her husband, a 4-year-old boy and a 7-month-old girl.

"Those two angels that provided a nice Christmas morning for us makes it that much more special," she said.

The couple paid the layaways of seven other customers, including a couple who had a sizeable baby registry set up at the store.



In total, the anonymous donors spent $1,200, according to a Toys"R"Us spokesman.