The prompt:
I almost named my child Tiffany, but chose Andrea instead because…
Okay, I'll admit it. I didn't really like the name Tiffany a whole lot either. (Sorry to those of you out there with the name. I do not mean to be offensive.) When my mom begged me not to name my daughter Tiffany ("I do NOT want to listen to people whining Tiffie all her life!) I shot back, "then you figure out something better."
Just a couple weeks before her due date, we still hadn't figured out a name for our daughter, and I was at a point I wasn't too worried about it. With everything else that goes into raising a child her name was the last thing on my mind. I know... dumb, right. It's only something she will live with for the rest of her life. To be honest I was still hoping she was a boy as we had been told through the whole pregnancy right up until an emergency ultrasound a couple of weeks before. The boy's name we had ready to go.
On Christmas Day my husband and I were hanging around at my parent's house commenting that the baby's due date was only a week away. My mom brought up the subject of our terrible prep-school sounding name yet again. For about the thirtieth time I told my mom that if she would throw out a name we liked better Tiffany would go out the window in a heart beat.
My dad finally said, "Ann. Her name should be Ann." That is my middle name, and it is just too short for a first name. When I said that Dad replied, "Drea. Andrea."
"That's it!" my husband almost shouted. "I like it."
"What's her middle name then?" I asked. I had already fallen in love with the name Andrea and knew our name dilemma was over.
"Christine," my dad stated as if it were obvious. If he and my mom had had another child his name would have been Christopher. "Andrea Christine." It was beautiful and, for us, it was WAY better than Tiffany. Andrea is definitely NOT a Tiffany. I'm glad we were able to solve that problem over Christmas dinner.
7 comments:
My first was going to be a Matthew and then at the last minute we decided on Adam. Fast forward 6 years and a different partner and he already had an Andrew.
Our first together was a Matthew. Our second together was unanmed right up until he was an hour old and the midwife slapped a name book in my hubby's hand and said then you pick a name because the gazillion options I had offered up were knocked back.
We ended up with Michael, although everyone calls him Mica.
So we now have two A's and two M's and doesn't that get confusing.
I always wanted a Brianna or something similar, a girl even would have been nice to even give a girls name - ironically eldest son's ex is a Rhianna and middle son's girlfriend is a Brittany.
You got the two A's, No M's? LOL
Oh and I much prefer Andrea to Tiffany if it counts for anything
That's funny- my mom's cousin calls my girls "The Two A's." We actually had a third when our foster son lived with us. That was definitely confusing! Two is enough for us, so no M's, though I would have liked an M name for a boy. Actually, the boy name I had picked out was a B. You know, A, B, C. Somehow I don't think I would have gotten away with that! :-) It was a good thing Amber turned out to be a girl, though, because we were arguing about boy's names on the way to the hospital. I'm not sure that kid would have a name YET! LOL
Our two boys get called the M&M's
That's cute Fi!
When the name Tiffany came out, it was very unique until the world decided to go with Tiffany. But i think is a very nice name, just that is now very common. Meanwhile the name you ended up with is really cute!!
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Andrea is very pretty. I especially like the nickname Drea.
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