Hello, Everyone!

[bunnsidhe.livejournal.com]

Hello!   :)

I've made a few comments in some posts here, so maybe it's time for me to introduce myself.

My name is Tracy, I'm married and I live in Scandinavia (but moving moving to England in the next few weeks). My husband and I are not planning on having children at the moment--I just love picking out names and learning what names other people like. However, I think I am the odd one out here. I don't do the "sibling set" thing. I don't care if my son's name matches my daughter's name. I'd give my son an Irish first name with a Scandinavian middle name, and  my daughter would have a Russian first name with the middle name of June. I also don't care about perfect flow in names--as long as it doesn't sound like it rhymes or is embarrassing in some capacity to the child (difficult to pronounce, intials make a funny word, etc.). And I think naming your kid just Maggie or Charlie is fine. Those are acceptable names for adults and I feel you shouldn't be forced to pick Charles if you don't like it. My name is short sounding and I'm fine with it and I never use my middle name with it.

I have a dog named Milo, a rabbit named Tookie and a new baby bunny named Frank (full name is Francis after the saint).

I enjoy reading the posts in here.   :)

Comments

[bunnsidhe.livejournal.com]

Hello,

We're moving to Milton Keynes....about 45 minutes from London, I believe. My husband is over there now (in training for the job that he accepted there). I have never been to England so this will be an adventure. I have lived in Ireland before so I guess I am a bit familiar with that area of the world.

The reason I believe nickname-sounding names are okay is because I don't want to feel that I have to pick a name I don't like. I also don't see a problem with an adult being called Maggie. I suppose if the child wanted to call themselves Margaret they could. I think a lot of people call themselves something which is not on their birth certificate anyway. I was reading one baby name board and someone said, "I love the name Rory, but I can't have a grown son named Rory..what is that a nickname for?" And everyone chimed in with Gregory and Robert. I just got annoyed because Rory is my favourite name for a boy and it isn't short for anything. Rory is Rory. Lots of grown men named Rory walking around in Ireland and the UK doing just fine.

Thank you. :) I think he's adorable! That's Frank. He's a Japanese harlequin Dutch.

[sageharper.livejournal.com]

Cool
It's not bad here really. Good luck with the move. :)

Fair enough
Yeah that is totally stupid when a name isn't actually short for anything.

Ah right, sweet :)
My two are just 'mutts'.

[bunnsidhe.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :)

And nothing wrong with a mutt. My Tookie is a mutt.