Tired Of Trying To Get This Posted: Baby Names

Posted by Vulnadia on Jan 12, 2011 at 12:15 AM This was commentary meant for an article claiming that what we name our children can say alot about a person/parents who chose the names. It's been posted, reposted & reposted again & it's become laughable at how my test posts slide right thru but this one has yet to clear....so, here is the text yet again because I feel I have the right to say these things in relation to the article or just for my own giggles & merde...since it's been almost 24hrs and the original didn't make it past the spamblockers apparently! LINK It's really neither here nor there if you want to click on it & see what the original article is all about, point is, I'm tired of losing my own writings on the matter and wanted to try & get it in here where the kids baby book basically essentially is kept. So the study claims that our children's names speak volumes about us as parents. You just HAVE to wonder now, don't you? What does that mean? I mean, really, in all honesty, unless you really REALLY know you're English history you aren't going to have a clue about what I was thinking when I named my kids unless I go ahead & tell you...which is no secret & I'm sure that I've already covered it before somewhere on here... To begin with, I HATE BOY NAMES!!! Seriously, no joke, I just do...most boy names are just awful in my book... And I happen to have managed to have 3 of them!!! Imagine that! While Pregnant with my first one, I scoured baby name books, hit the library and by the last few weeks of pregnancy had resorted to browsing indexes of historical based books at Books-A-Million which was fairly new at the time! Of course that is where I ended up with 2 choices I could live with...Bregon or Tristan (which was too girly for my taste in the end) and I had already flat-out refused to name the baby George after Lord Byron on the grounds that once upon a time I had named the cat George...as in "I will love him & squeeze him & call him George" nevermind that the kitty is a girl, she looked just like bugs bunny coloring-wise. So not a week later, Bregon Byron made his way into the world and has been Bregon ever since...named after one of the original invaders of England back before even the barbarians had managed such feats... Fast forward to years later when the triplets became a reality...and I had not one more boy name to come up with but 2! We went through all of the demigods of various religions, stories of old etc and most were written off due to having named characters at faire after them already & that would never do! So eventually Kai was chosen...it's actually Arthurian in nature...meaning "Keeper of the Kingdom" and Arthur's sometimes brother,sometimes right-hand man depending on which of the legends & mythos you prefer. Ashe...well let's just say his middle name is taken from Bregon's hero Ash from the Evil Dead series...(& yes a month after mine were born his nemesis & quite possibly total antithesis was born & aptly named Ash Vaughen Kaiden...kid you not my child's name is Kaiden Ashe...too funny but no coincidence as the Mom is an old dear faire friend of mine.) On to Kian...who was almost an Alexie but spared by the English version of John pretty much (it's as common as John over there but spelled slightly different on most occasions.) I would have outright named him Loki (at the time I adored the name & still do to this day) but something about naming a child outright after the god of mischief just gives the child cause to want to grow up as much like his namesake as humanly possible & we can't have the god of mischief & his brother the Good Ashe with his chainsaw running around, now can we? Then my beautiful baby girl needed a name...oh yes we knew she was a beautiful petite little flower almost from conception-always measuring weeks tinier than her brothers and carefully maintaining her position at the very top of things in there-yep this holds to this very day actually! (most multiples change location all the time til birth.) I had originally thought to name her Marguerite Anais...but everyone threw such a huge fit...I mean really, it's just Margaret Anne only in french, but I gave in when I decided that I wanted another Baby Vivian in the family... You see, my great grandmother's name was Vivian and when her daughter was born she also named her daughter Vivian...so to differentiate, her Daddy always called her "Baby Vivian" and everyone called my grandmother that til her dying day quite literally-it was always fun to hear her friends page her in Wallyworld when they couldn't find her and were ready to go & watch the look of shock on the peoples faces to find that they were in fact paging an elderly lady! So Vivian became Vivienne (my name is also french so it only fit) and I chose to name her after my great aunt Emmalene as well who I loved very much as a young child...my aunt had fits because she never had much affection for her on the grounds that she was MEAN...maybe to her,but NEVER to me!!! Thus Vivienne Emmalene came into being and I had my Beautiful Baby Vivienne. What do all of these names say about me? I've absolutely no idea...they are all demigods when it gets down to it...I could go on explaining but I've not the notion or the time & don't really know if the post will make it past the spamblocks again or not & this is it's 2nd version!!!! So what do you think? Do our children's names really say a lot about us as parents? What about your own choices? What do you think?