Her
Name? Ah Yes, That’s a Story….. |
After I accepted my referral, Margaret - who was
heartily sick of my by-then daily emails of increasingly random name choices -
gave me a deadline and said I had to pick my top three. Withering under her
threat of never programming my VCR again, I caved and selected a top three
list: Madeleine, Isobel, and
Annabelle.
I liked Madeleine a lot, and I liked the sound of
Madeleine Mericle too. But in the
end, Maddy just proved too popular.
I went to visit a daycare and one of of the teachers yelled
“Maddy” and I think about six little girls turned around. So on to Isobel. Isobel is the Scottish variant of
Isabelle. I love it. But everyone I sought an opinion from
advised me against it. Mainly
because of the unusual spelling and pronunciation (EE-sobel). I didn’t want Isabelle for the
same reasons as Maddy – too popular right now. But I also didn’t
want my kid to have name that no one could spell or pronounce. Growing up with a name like Maureen, I
dealt with that and I hated it. (I
grew up wishing I was named Jenni or Linda or something simple.) So that left Annabelle and I ran it by
my family and got the thumbs up, everyone liked it. (I tried to ignore the information
offered up by a male friend that a woman named Annabelle holds the world record
for gang bangs on film or some other dubious honor in the porn world.)
I settled on an original middle name of Shea because
my Grandmother’s maiden name was McShea.
After my sister died, I changed Annabelle’s
middle name to Margaret to honor my sister’s memory and decided to keep
Shea as a second name.
Introducing
Annabelle Margaret Shea Mericle……
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