Atheists & Agnostics
Related: About this forumA memory flash from my childhood
When I was about five, my dad and adoptive mom adopted a baby. Dad thought it only fair that Mom name the baby because he and my birth mother had named me, and my older half-sister was named by her father and our birth mother.
Moms first name was Mary and her best friends name was Frances, and Mom asked my sister and me what wed think of the name Mary Frances for the baby.
I remember saying, What about Frances Mary instead?
Mom, a staunch Presbyterian who strongly disliked Catholics, said, Francis Mary sounds like a nuns name! I dont want you girls to have to say, This is our sister Frances Mary!
The baby was named Mary Frances.
HAB911
(9,362 posts)I'm with your mother!
frogmarch
(12,226 posts)it.
I have to say, though, that Mom came to adore President Kennedy and wept when he died.
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)Shoulda gone with a Greek name....
Phyllis
Alexandra
Chloe
Thalassa
Diana
I like flowers as names too
Rose
Lily
Daisy
Heliotrope....
OK, maybe Heliotrope is going too far....
Oh, well, since she is half Japanese, as an adult she changed her first name to Aiko, which means "love child." Good name. I like it too.
I want to change mine to Heliotrope!
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)Dat's me! All frilly and floofy and purty! I hope I smell good too.