(no subject)

[willsjoy.livejournal.com]

How do you handle people (especially family) that really dislike the name you love for your baby and like to constantly bitch about it? We had our ultrasound yesterday, and it's another girl, which means we are heavily considering Moira (Moy-rah). My husband and I both love it, it comes from the Greek word Moirae, which means "fate," which is oh so perfect for our completely unplanned surprise baby. Her middle name might be June or Josephine or something else I guess, those are the two we have now. And no, there aren't many nickname possibilities, but my name is Erin - try to think of a decent nickname for that! :)

Very very few people like it. I know it's unique and different (that's part of it's charm), but I'm so sick of hearing people complain about how hard it is to say, how odd it is, etc, ect. It's not like I'm naming the kid Sunshine Rainbow Moonbeam (apologies to those who are considering those names :) ). The person that bothers me the most about it is my sister, who I am very close to, because she just keeps sending me other names, as if she's not going to accept that we're almost dead set. Now, we're not 100% on it yet, so I told her we would still consider other names, but at the sono yesterday, after they said it was a girl, I just looked at her and thought, "That's Moira." It just feels like her name, do you know what I mean? That's hard to explain to people who have never felt that way I guess. My first daughter is Madeleine, and I never felt that strongly about that being her name, but I liked it enough to use it, and my husband loved it.

I know it's our kid. I know we should name it what we like, and not what other people like, I'm just really sick of the bitching from people, especially people I'm close to. I know some of you named your kids very unique names; how did you deal with the criticism?