My son struggles with his reading and I signed him up for this exchange when I noticed he was using a piece of torn paper as a bookmark in the novel he was reading for school.

Our rematch Santa has completely blown us and him away with this INCREDIBLE gift. It arrived last night and as I wasn't going to be home until very late my husband messaged to tell me there was a package. I had an inkling it was the bookmarks exchange but he told me it was a BIG package so that idea instantly went out the window.

Boy was I wrong! 4 amazing bookmarks, two for my son and one each for my husband and I. The bear bookmark is amazing, he thinks it's too precious for school so we are using it at home. The cat bookmark (black cats like ours!) has already snuck its way into his school novel.

My bookmark is gorgeous - it's sitting in the pages of my current read, Sense & Sensibility. The waka (Maori canoe) on my husband's bookmark is seriously impressive! I used to process lantern slides for historical purposes and often processed images of these waka - but never anything as impressive as this one!

But the BOOK. Oh my word. When we opened the package I squealed. My son loves VWs and Komi vans (he sleeps in a kombi van bed my husband made him) but THAT kombi van, the one on the cover? THAT EXACT van was our wedding vehicle and that book could not have been more perfect!

THANK YOU SANTA these will bring us warm fuzzy feelings every time we see and use them.