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After a long and exhausting day, all I wanted was to come home, kick off my shoes, and enjoy a peaceful evening.
The universe had other plans.
I walked into my bedroom, tossed my bag on the chair, and froze. There, nestled beside the leg of my bed frame, were two small, white, oval objects. They were about the size of a grape, smooth, and slightly leathery in appearance.
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My mind raced through possibilities. Had my kids left candy on the floor? No, too big. Were they some kind of strange pebble? No, too uniform.
My heart started pounding. Was it something dangerous? Something alive?
I knelt down for a closer look. The objects were pale white, almost translucent in some light. They had a soft, flexible texture—not hard like an eggshell, but not squishy like a gel capsule either.
I called my husband. “Come here. Now.”
He walked in, saw me kneeling on the floor, and raised an eyebrow. “What’s going on?”
“I don’t know. Look.”
He knelt beside me. We stared at the two strange objects in silence.
“Are those… eggs?” he asked.
“I think so.”
“From what?”
“I don’t know.”
We called our neighbor, who happened to be a biology teacher. She came over, took one look, and smiled.
“Those are lizard eggs,” she said. “Probably from a house gecko. They’re harmless.”
Harmless. Lizards. In my bedroom.
I didn’t know whether to laugh or scream.
The Backstory (How They Got There)
We had seen lizards in the house before. Small, quick, harmless creatures that scurried across walls and ceilings. We usually shooed them outside and thought nothing of it.
Apparently, one of them had decided that the corner of our bedroom—the warm, quiet corner beside the bed frame—was the perfect place to lay her eggs.
Lizards lay their eggs in protected areas with stable temperatures and humidity. The space between the bed frame and the wall was dark, undisturbed, and consistently warm. It was, from a lizard’s perspective, a perfect nursery.
I couldn’t even be mad. It was actually kind of impressive.
What We Did Next (The Right Way to Handle Reptile Eggs)
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