After all my talk of not getting attached to Dory the fish, we had an interesting turn of events here. I knew several weeks ago that a mama bird decided to build her nest in the wreath on my front door. Sadly, it was in my fall wreath because I’m a procrastinator and meant to buy a new spring wreath but never got around to it for various reasons. None of which are legitimate.
So this mama bird built her sweet little nest in my fall wreath and, shortly thereafter, laid what appeared to be at least three eggs. The good news is we don’t use our front door as much as our back door and have managed to just open the front door very slowly and carefully about once a day to retrieve packages or any mail that gets left on our front porch.
But then yesterday P noticed that the eggs have hatched and we now have baby birds living in the nest on the wreath on our front porch. Which is a game changer. We can no longer use the front door at all lest we risk a wee baby bird falling out of its nest and that’s a chance I cannot take. Because while I am not attached at all to the fish living in the next room, I feel completely responsible for the well-being of our newly hatched baby birds. Or as I like to call them, Huey, Dewey and Louie.
Also, Caroline just announced her fish is swimming on its side. I’m no fishologist, but I believe this could be a sign the end is near.
Here are a few things you may be interested in (as if it can get any more interesting than my pet baby birds)
1. Kelly Stamps is going to start a new online book club on her blog. And I’m so excited that she’s chosen The Antelope in the Living Room as her first book. I’m even going to do a little video post over there at some point during the discussion process. You can find out all the details here.
2. Speaking of books, Alyssa Bethke and Robin Gunn have a new book that just came out yesterday. It’s called Spoken For: Embracing Who You Are and Whose You Are. It’s available here on Amazon and here on Barnes & Noble.
3. I loved reading this article about Yellowberry bras for girls. If you have daughters you’ll find this inspiring and informative.
4. Sophie wrote a great post about good music for spring over on Ree’s blog. Here’s what you need to know about Sophie, she’s always the person who tells me what I should be downloading on iTunes and has never led me astray. You can read her post here.
5. I think I may have to order myself one of these monogram trucker hats for the summer. Especially since I’m trying to be so careful about keeping the sun off my face at all times.
You can find them here.
And that’s it for today. I’m off to go check on my birds.