I didn’t name my dog, Diesel, he came with that name. Same thing with my cat, Whisper. Babies don’t come with names pre-chosen unless it’s a Cabbage Patch doll from the 80’s. Now we are faced with name a tiny human a name they will have for the rest of their life. A name that will be called out to them “Hey ____ don’t touch that!” or in the future it may have a MD or PHD follow it, it may appear on business card…and hopefully not in a mug shot. A name is something important, something they’ll have the rest of their lives. I’m reminded of a scene from the movie “Where The Heart Is” starring Natalie Portman and Ashley Judd. The main character named her daughter Americus saying she wanted her to have a strong name. Her friend twisted her nose at it and then recanted saying “Well, I guess I shouldn’t talk. I named my kids after snack foods: Brownie, Praline, Cherry and Baby Ruth.”
Yikes.
The thing is…we have a name! My husband and I have talked about our kids names for a long time, we have list(s) and no matter what we do we keep going back to same one. Like it’s meant to be. We’ve thought about how it would fit her as a child, as an adult, possible nicknames. Now, the middle name…that’s a whole other story…still can’t figure out that part, but that’s ok.
HOWEVER…mums the word. We are keeping the name to ourselves for a number of reasons. 1) We don’t want outside opinions on it 2) We don’t want so say the baby’s name is ______ and someone say they knew someone with the same name, how much they hated that person etc etc 3) AND the biggie is, we decide on the name and the day she’s born and the may not fit. She doesn’t look like a “____” . THEN if someone got the baby something monogrammed….that’ll all out the window.
Imagine your name is ‘Lucy’ and you have a whole bunch of things with the name ‘Sarah’ on them…”Oh, that’s what we were GOING to name you’. That’s no good.
For months now people have been egging us on to release the name. Nope. Not going to happen. The only we’ve discussed it with is one our close friends who’s expecting as we didn’t want to ‘steal’ their name. The funny thing is we both have such a mutual respect of secrets, she didn’t even reveal our name choice to her husband. I’m pretty sure it’s driving him insane even though he won’t admit it.