Ok so I know it has been a ridiculously long time between drinks. I know that most of my audience has probably grown old and died between blog posts...but much has been happening and I have not the time tonight to go into details.
Suffice to say that we are once again choosing names to apply to a small member of our family yet to be born. This time we are choosing female names.
You would think that choosing a couple of names for a small girl would be easier than choosing a name for a small boy. You would think. But no.
Choosing a name for Bede was relatively easy. We always liked the name and I had done a thesis on the historical figure of the Ven
erable Bede, and the name means 'prayer' in Old English. Our first son was always going to be Bede.
But when we fell pregnant I choked. I thought "can you really name a kid Bede in this day and age?" We looked at all the other ideas on our list and came up with nothing. But when he was born, he was Bede. It was that easy.
This time it's not so easy. We had a boy's name all picked out (even though I wasn't wild about it, I could live with it) but could never agree on a girl's name. Female names are fraught with emotional baggage. Specially for a teacher who went to a single sex school. So chances are every name has a face sitting behind a desk in a classroom. And chances are every name has more negative associations than positive.
So we both have our preferences. And both of us have non-negotiables. It makes it very hard to come up with viable options. And since we know it's a girl, it means we have to come up with something...I know we have a few more months but I like to be prepared.
My need to be prepared is one of the many reasons I needed to find out what we're having. Some people want to be surprised at the birth and hear the Dr say "It's a ____"... I figure it's a surprise whenever you find out what it is, so I'd like to know now thank you very much!
Tell me, how did you choose your child's name? Did you go with a Biblical name? A family name? The name of a particular celebrity/friend/influential person?
