This is my fourth international gift exchange. I received a great country to ship to and was very curious about who I'd receive a gift from this year. I've previously received wonderful gifts from Finland, Sweden, and Britain.

A couple weeks ago, I received a box from Amazon. It contained two great games to play and a little note indicating that this was only the first part of the gift, and that the second part would be arriving from Kazakhstan! Wow!

A few days ago, just on time before Christmas, I received a decently sized box covered in Kazpost tape -- clearly it had arrived. I waited until my son could help me open it as well, and then we opened the box. What could we have been sent from Kazakhstan?

Inside, we found a whole bunch of amazing things: multiple chocolate bars from Kazakhstan (these are delicious!), a chocolate gift box, a beautiful writing journal, and a great little piece of art (now sitting on our living room bookshelf).

My secret santa got me just right, and I love everything they got me. Thank you for being so generous and for sharing some things from your country with me!