Never A Dull Moment

I had a sweet surprise on Thursday from my sister asking me if she could bring Courtney up for the weekend since she was off for Spring Break and also wanted to hang out with me and Gentry that night. I was SO GLAD for the company since Dale was out of town working. 24/7 conversation with a three year old can get mighty interesting!! So, I welcomed some "adult" conversation.
I was glad I got to share dinner with her as well so I didn't have so many leftovers. Not that I couldn't have handled them all on my own, but a meal shared is ALWAYS pleasurable. We had lobster ravioli with a cream sauce, salad & parkerhouse rolls. Then chocolate covered strawberries leftover from earlier in the week! Still yummy!!
I love hanging out with my sister. She gets me like no one else does. We know each other intricately and somehow she still loves me anyway!
Her hubby had to work Friday night, so we decided to go to a concert over in St. Louis together on Friday night. I got to hang out with some of my cousins that I'm so close to and also saw some old/new friends from Louisiana. I had a GREAT time, but by the time we made it back to the house around 1:30 a.m. a striking reality hit me, that this gal ain't up to what she used to be! My feet were screaming "Get These 4 inch Heels OFF!"...my ankles were swollen, I had a headache and couldn't WAIT to find the most comfortable nightgown to slip on!
But, I couldn't go to bed without wandering down to the basement one more time and checking on our first batch of eggs that were hatching. As of right now we hatched 17 and one is working SO HARD trying to make their entrance. Christy & I, being the "uneducated" city girls that we are had never seen a chicken hatch before. We ended up being late for the concert because we wanted to watch one hatch. It really is a pretty amazing thing if you've never seen something like that.
I have always heard that if you see an chicken trying to hatch out of an egg that you can't "help it" along in the process. Got me to thinking about life and how it's sometimes in the struggle where we find our strength to face the days ahead and what's outside our comfort zone. I guess if we always had it easy and were saved from our own selves, that we'd never gain the strength it takes in the midst of the struggle to make us who we are. I'm not trying to get all philosophical about a crazy chicken hatching, just a thought that ran through my mind while all this was happening. Enjoy the pictures!