The Golden Egg

(Warning: The excited rambling of a city-mama about chickens and such.)

I admit I'm just a little excited about our chickens and the eggs they are starting to lay. Lo and behold, yesterday another lovely little brown egg was found in their coop! And when I fried up the first egg for Erik I was delighted to see it was a double-yolker! Is it not the most beautiful egg you've every seen? The single-yolk egg is from the store and doesn't it look pale in comparison? (And bland, I'm sure!)

And here, just because, is a picture of the two children I love best in all the world:

Simple Things

Our first egg- isn't it lovely?

Here are some simple things that have made me happy and thankful the last few days:

• Erik watching the kids so that I could go garage sale-ing alone this morning. It's something I enjoy once in a while but it's not quite as fun with the kids along!
  
• Coming home to find that Erik had the waffle batter all ready to be mixed up and poured into the iron, which he'd set up out on the deck where we were to eat breakfast. (We have waffles every Saturday morning and Erik nearly always makes them. I'll admit he makes them better than I do!)
• Peregrine finding the first ripe tomato yesterday! And many, many more on the way.
  
• Erik bringing in an egg, the first from our own hens! I can't wait to cook it up for him tomorrow morning, and I'm SO excited that we will be having our own fresh eggs.
• Watching our garden grow- the tomatillos look like little lanterns and the eggplants like dark purple eggs, peppers in several shades of green, onions popping up through the dark earth.
  

What are you giving thanks for these days?