At my age, birthdays usually give way from parties and presents to dinners out and someone else doing the chores for the evening. So imagine my surprise when I arrived home yesterday (my birthday) to find a box from Amazon waiting on our stoop.

“Did you order anything?” my husband asked.* I had not. It took me a couple of seconds to get in the door, wield my mailbox key and stab through the packing tape to get inside the package.

And this is what I found inside.

To find out what it was, read the rest of this post here.