Best. Gift. Ever.

I went to the post office today and picked up four packages, a book I ordered last week and one from each of my sisters.

After running the rest of my errands, I was finally able to open my sisters' birthday presents.

I started with my twin's gift first, since her box was on top of the stack. She's been telling me all week long I was either going to hate or love it and the moment of truth had arrived.

I opened the box and immediately saw a Nerf gun on top. I used to complain that while gifts trend to get better as I got older, I never got anything I could open and play with right there. So my sister gets me toys from time to time, which pleases the five-year old in me.

Next to the Nerf gun was a brown towel. I picked it up and moved it to the side, wanting to see what was in the rest if the box. I set it to the side and started to wonder why she sent me a brown towel, surely she couldn't think I needed more towels.

I picked it up and shook it around, hoping to see whatever was wrapped up in it, thinking she might have used it as for packaging. When nothing fell out, I set it aside and returned to the box. Still not sure why she would have sent me a towel, I picked it up once more and unfolded it.

I noticed a hoodie on the towel when I was refolding it. At first I thought maybe it wasn't a towel after all, but a brown sweatshirt. Then I realized what it was and broke out my happy dance.

A few months ago our sister posted a picture of our niece, Ryann Leigh, on facebook wrapped up in a green towel with a hood and frog eyes. I asked why they didn't make them for adults and said I wanted one.

I had forgotten about that conversation, until I saw the hood that is. I immediately knew what it was and why I had gotten it. It was pretty much the most exciting moment of my life.

When I called my sister, I found out she had sewn the pieces together to make me a monkey towel, complete with ears. I now have my own animal-hooded towel.

I'm not sure when I'm going to use it, but I totally plan on it. I might even go swimming sometime just to use it.

Getting a one-of-a-kind, handmade gift from my sister as an inside joke that my sister knows I'm a big enough dork to actually use was the best gift ever.

She also threw in an Akey's Army T-shirt, a book I asked for and a bag of gummy bears. If you think she knows me well, it's because we used to be wombmates.