before they are in the basket…  Don’t know if this is a good idea or not but somehow today we got on the subject of baby names that we would like and then that wild surge of eternal hope came and I couldn’t help but think….we will get to use these names…someday.  I wonder how many of us secretly name the eggs before they hatch.  How many of us guard that secret name just in case someone else might want to use it and then it would lose it’s  luster.  I know we have a few that we aren’t ready to speak out loud much less tell anyone IRL because we all know once they hear our special name they will covet it and use it for their baby pleasure and leave us in the dust…with only new animals who need a name.  I wonder….