I received my gift from my Santa yesterday and it was a well needed boost as the Christmas decorations came down yesterday too! :-(

She was ever so generous and even included my nieces and nephews which is more than I expected, and as you can see, everything came wrapped or in beautiful gift bags. It was the first time in these exchanges that I received anything wrapped so that was kind of exciting (it’s just a shame they never made it under the tree!)

She also sent a cute card and 2 notes explaining why she chose each gift. Here’s what I got:

A Les Miserables book about adapting the novel into a stage musical - it’s my favourite musical (if you ever have the chance to see it, do. It’s medicine for your soul lol) and I actually went to see it on the 29th and saw this book but couldn’t justify the price they wanted at the merch stand so I had to make do with a souvenir programme so I was escatic to recieve this. Thank you so much!!

A Penn St. beanie - her father and daughter graduated from there so I shall look out for their results next football season and think about her haha

Both a leather and pillow American football - I wish I had the pillow football last Sunday during the Browns last drive with my beloved Ravens. Could have been a great stress reliever!!! Thank god for Mosley :-P

Various local snackage including tex nuts, crackers, Hershey’s choc, butterfingers, tic tacs, rope candy etc - that we’re excited to share, except for the Dove choc; that’s all mine lmao

Stuffed unicorn and unicorn cat for my nieces (one loves unicorns and the other loved stuffed toys so they loved them) and a stuffed Pennsylvania Black Bear for my Nephew - wow you weren’t joking when you said it was super soft, I was tempted to keep it for myself it was that soft! xD

And a wooden Christmas tree ornament so I could think of her and the exchange we had, every year!

I was beyond happy with what I got and am grateful for your thoughtfulness and kindness and hope you and your family have a great and healthy 2019