OMG. Turns out Rebel, with whom I attended university but only knew for a total of 5 minutes, lives very near me, has lived everywhere I have lived and does a lot of the stuff I've done in my life. Weird.
Clara is lovely. There is a very nice couple who brings there wee bairn, Clara, to the park to play with the dogs. People just love saying her name.
I'd worry about Dare being a tease magnet, but I think that outcome has a lot to do with the kid's personality. You can try to tease, but if it falls flat, it's no fun.
Ooh, I love Claudia.
Frontrunner for a second girl (um, sometime in LATE 2009 or 2010) is probably Eleanor, though I'm not crazy about how AnnabEL and ELeanor run together. And I love Josephine, though I have a feeling I won't be able to get DH to bite. Middle name in either case would be Kelly, for my dad.
Boy would have Edmund somewhere in his name, also for Dad. DH wants Brendan Edmund. I want Edmund Patrick, but DH has Patrick issues: "It's Pat! And Patrick the Starfish on SpongeBob!" To which I respond: "Saint Patrick! And Patrick O'Brian, and Patrick Harper from the Sharpe novels!" So I'm thinking of proposing Edmund Arthur as a fallback position, because I'm just not enamored of Brendan Edmund.
Is there a story behing Monti, GC?
Name is actually Montine, which was my mom's step-mom's name. My mom knew a girl Monti in her youth and really liked the name. I love having a unique name.
Fiona's daughter is Clara, so it has been Buffista-claimed.
Yay! It is a great name.
I wasn't teased for my first name at all (though I dropped the last three letters for a long time). The last name was a different story.
A radio DJ over here called Sara Cox named her first son Isaac. After the pointing and laughing died away, I think she changed it. But maybe not. Ima go check.
Dare sounds great to me.
The hands-down absolutely prettiest name I know, belonging to a Faire friend of mine, is Aurora Jude.
The one girl name I loved as much as Matilda was Memorie, my maternal grandmother's name (my grandfather and one or two other select persons called her Mem), but Hec sincerely disliked it. I really, really hope one of my sibs or cousins uses it for a sprog, because it's lovely and unusual and my grandmother was a striking, complicated person and I'd hate to think of her name vanishing away.
my organization feels the need to have these on the weekend.
Shows a lack of commitment to the cause. If it is important enough to get people together to make change, it is important enough to schedule during work days. Or, at the very, very least, give comp days in return.
Memorie is very pretty.
Very. I've never heard that.
