Oh the joys of naming your child

Let me first tell you that T doesn’t take naming our child seriously. However, he has enforced the following rules:


1. The name has to be gender specific. Therefore the name is not something both a male and female could be named – I.e. Kelly, Cory, etc

2. The name can’t also be a thing or verb. I.e. Colby is a cheese, Hunter hunts animals, and Chase is a verb.

3. The initials can’t spell something stupid like FAT or ART or CAT.

4. The name cannot be a name suggested by a family member (specifically his mother). All family member recommendations will be black listed.

5. The name cannot bring back a memory of another person who has that name.

6. The name should be able to have a nickname (the cooler the better) if possible

7. The name cannot be shortened or lengthened by adding ‘Y’ at the end of it. I.e. Kimmy, Tommy, etc.

8. The kids name cannot rhyme with anything that would allow other kids to pick on our kid.

So you can see this task is not an easy one. Especially when T will randomly tell you two letters that he thinks should be in his child’s name…, or will randomly toss out names like Roland, or Warren etc to wind me up.

This is probably another reason for the high blood pressure!!

A recent before bed conversation went like this:

Me: “Do you have short-list of boy names yet?”

T: “No, I haven’t had time to think about it”

Me: “You’ve had over 8 months, what are you doing now?”

T: “What about Russel?”

Me: “T”!

T: “What about Neil?”

Me: “Can you be serious please?”

T: “What about Dan?”

Me: “Nope, I made out with a Dan once”

T: “Well, we can’t just rule out names of people you made out with or there will be no names left!”

Me: “T!!!!” and slapped him.HARD.

T: “How about you just give me a list of names of people you haven’t made out with?”

Me: “T, shut up and go to sleep”

Then there is silence and I think he’s fallen asleep……….

T: “I think I should be a comedian”

Me: "SHUT UP AND GO TO SLEEP”


I let 24 hours pass and again last night approached the topic. And again he tried to be funny but I told him it is now ‘crunch time’ so he told me that in the end I would be the one picking the name anyway…. at least he knows that now and I won’t have to fight with him at the end!!!