Comments on: On my way to Circle K http://insnarkville.com/2007/01/30/on-my-way-to-circle-k/ Explorations of Joy, Happiness, Craft, with a little Irony, Satire, and Motherhood, for good measure. Wed, 09 Jun 2010 22:42:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Niki http://insnarkville.com/2007/01/30/on-my-way-to-circle-k/comment-page-1/#comment-4748 Niki Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:28:55 +0000 http://insnarkville.com/2007/01/30/on-my-way-to-circle-k/#comment-4748 Oh, and Sarah - I had a friend who named her daughter Aleksus - think Alexis. Yucky yucky spelling! Oh, and Sarah – I had a friend who named her daughter Aleksus – think Alexis. Yucky yucky spelling!

]]> By: Niki http://insnarkville.com/2007/01/30/on-my-way-to-circle-k/comment-page-1/#comment-4747 Niki Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:28:10 +0000 http://insnarkville.com/2007/01/30/on-my-way-to-circle-k/#comment-4747 I had family that violently reacted to both of my girls' names prior to birth. For the first one, I stuck to my guns, and she has a beautiful name. My 2nd was to be Salem Gabrielle - Salem as we live in a town by that name, and hubby's family were original settlers of that town, hence cool first and last names. My mother reacted horribly - "cigarettes and witch trials, that's all I think when I hear that name", and often, so that we finally relented and changed the whole name. Of course now I think, maybe if I had named her something that meant Peace she would have been that way. Funniest part is that I was born during the height of the Arab-Israeli conflict, and was delivered by an Arab dr. and an Israeli dr. My dad wanted desperately to name me Shalom, as that would have been "funny". My mom would not give in, thank goodness, as a. we're not Jewish and b. it just wasn't funny. Yet 25 years later I wanted to give my child a variant of the same name without even realizing it. I had family that violently reacted to both of my girls’ names prior to birth. For the first one, I stuck to my guns, and she has a beautiful name. My 2nd was to be Salem Gabrielle – Salem as we live in a town by that name, and hubby’s family were original settlers of that town, hence cool first and last names. My mother reacted horribly – “cigarettes and witch trials, that’s all I think when I hear that name”, and often, so that we finally relented and changed the whole name. Of course now I think, maybe if I had named her something that meant Peace she would have been that way.

Funniest part is that I was born during the height of the Arab-Israeli conflict, and was delivered by an Arab dr. and an Israeli dr. My dad wanted desperately to name me Shalom, as that would have been “funny”. My mom would not give in, thank goodness, as a. we’re not Jewish and b. it just wasn’t funny. Yet 25 years later I wanted to give my child a variant of the same name without even realizing it.

]]> By: Cookie http://insnarkville.com/2007/01/30/on-my-way-to-circle-k/comment-page-1/#comment-4726 Cookie Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:23:21 +0000 http://insnarkville.com/2007/01/30/on-my-way-to-circle-k/#comment-4726 Maybe the mother had really good drugs for the birth? Maybe the mother had really good drugs for the birth?

]]> By: Sarah HB http://insnarkville.com/2007/01/30/on-my-way-to-circle-k/comment-page-1/#comment-4725 Sarah HB Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:14:24 +0000 http://insnarkville.com/2007/01/30/on-my-way-to-circle-k/#comment-4725 Um, what was the meaning of the Queen Mum's comment? A 70's thing? Hate the name...I also hate stupid ("creative") spellings of normal names. Um, what was the meaning of the Queen Mum’s comment? A 70’s thing?

Hate the name…I also hate stupid (“creative”) spellings of normal names.

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