A Rose by any other name....

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I was talking to my Mother today about names and where she thought of each of our names. (I'm the oldest of 5 kids)....

Tracy Lynn - Tracy was a compromise. Dad wanted "Tammy" and Mom HATED the name. Lynn was passed down from my Mother.
(If I were a boy, I'd have been Charles McAlpin...after my paternal Grandfather)

Timothy Donald - They just liked the name Timothy and Donald is after my maternal Grandfather. (Had he been a girl, he would have been Noelle. He was due on Christmas Day.)

Gregory Albert - Mom wanted Todd, Dad said "hell no!"...they settled for Gregory. Albert comes from 2 different sources....My Great-Grandfather AND the man they credit for saving their marriage. (He'd have been Tiffany Diane had he been a girl)

Nicole Diane - Again...they liked the name Nicole and Diane is after my maternal Grandmother. (Had she been a boy, she'd have been Kristofer Adam)

Tiffany Ann - ....yada yada yada...loved the name Tiffany...and, since Dad nixed the idea of another daughter with the middle name Diane, they settled for "Ann". (since we knew from an early amniocentesis that she was a girl, there is no "she would've been...." name for her)

Funny story - Apparently at one point in time Mom considered naming me Alma Lynn. And even worse, she considered, albeit briefly, naming me Briar Rose. Thank God she came to her senses!!

And that's that.