Ok, 19 days and counting...We have not totally settled on any names for our baby. We chose not to find our the gender so we need two sets of names...Great double the problem. I never thought naming my baby would be this difficult. I always thought I would know; but I don't wanna curse my child to spell their N-A-M-E for the rest of the their lives. I also hate nicknames or shortened versions of really nice names. Love the name Matthew, hate Matt; love the name Jennifer, hate Jen. My only saving grace is that my last name is pretty normal and generic and anything from Peter to Penelope will jive.
Then there is the family. We are wanting to name our boy (if we have a boy) after my husband's step father. This does not impress his biological father or his wife, at all!
'I've never heard of anyone naming their child after a step parent'.
Then there is another family member that insists on shortening every name I tell her (see above comment). If I wanted people to call my boy Chris, I would name him that!
Oh and then, my sister who just had a baby girl picked the same name we wanted for our girl. There is no rule against us using that same name, but it won't get the same pop.
One last one, another family member insists on knowing the meaning of a name before commenting on whether or not he likes it or not.
For the record, Maria means BITTER in almost every language. This explains the standard aura surrounding my relatives....Since 99% of us have that as a first or middle name...Including me!
