My husband and I didn’t want to name our babies with common names. We pored over every baby name book, list, Web site, you-name-it, and agonized over choosing their names. Nothing too common, nothing too familiar, nothing an ex or a boss or an enemy had been named, nothing “celebrity weird“… what had once been [...]
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My friend Melissa, I mean Boobie Chickendoodle, sent this to me in an email. When I discovered that my new name was Snickle Rhinonose, I laughed out loud. For the next ten minutes I renamed everyone I knew, and then decided to share with you. I hope you enjoy this as much as I did!
The [...]
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Now that I am officially 12 weeks pregnant, and everything seems to be OK, we’ve begun to think about names.
I remember as a young girl, playing with my dolls and giving them names. I asked my mother if she thought I might be able to name my children those same names when I grew up. [...]
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Even though I am the oldest, my sister was the first to bless my father and step-mother with a grandchild. I remember that as soon as she could talk, she named my father ?Poppy?. My step-mother was ?Grammy?. Although my mother had passed on years before, we decided to give her a [...]
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Mark Ciptak of Elizabethton, TN has secretly named his newborn daughter Sarah McCain Palin after the Republican Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates without his wife?s knowledge.
Apparently, Ciptak decided to change the name he and his wife had agreed upon for their child which was Ava Grace Ciptak. What was his reason for the change of heart? [...]
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