While we are just barely exiting the first trimester (I like to think it goes until week 13..technically, it kind of does), Adam and I find ourselves in the name war again. Well, it's not exactly a war so much...just a snag. This snag will likely last until delivery. Yesterday, while I should have been doing other very important things, I decided on four names (two boy and two girl) that I loved. Not liked, loved. Then I wrote out a pretend Christmas card greeting and signed all of our names to the bottom, just to see what it looked like. (Yes, I did this four separate times. What should I have been doing instead? Taking notes for an extremely long lecture? Certainly not.)
Anyway, I was so proud of myself. Job = done. Our kid would have a name. Then came the Adam discussion, which went something like this:
Me: I have come up with the short list of names for the baby. They are: A., B., C., and D. (Naturally, I'm substituting letters here. I would never just name the kid a letter.)
Adam: Yeeaaaahhh...I'm pretty sure I've heard all of these before and I'm pretty sure we've already thrown them out.
Me: Not using them is not the same as throwing them out.
Adam: Whose turn is it to name the baby? Is it yours?
Me: Yes, it is mine.
Adam: And now you're lying. It's mine. Take a back seat, honey.
I lost. So help me, if our child's name sounds like it came from a popular teen show in the 90's or is so flowery that it should be scented, I might scream. I don't know if I like this "Your turn, my turn" deal anymore. I would like to renege.
The family. We are a little band of characters trudging through life, sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that binds us all together.
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