NCDR: Siblings and Godparents

bumpuser9353653

For those who have siblings and godparents, or who have multiple kids with godparents, I need some insight.

Is it typical to have the same godparents for each kid? I can't decide what to do with A for her baptism... She'll be baptized Catholic, so we have to have at least one Catholic Grandparent listed. We don't have a lot of close Catholic friends, so this means using the same person as we did for R, or my brother.

There's no bad blood with the official godmother, not we're just not as close as we used to be and she's not really present in the girls' lives.

We actually consider our other friends to be her actual godparents but they aren't Catholic so only the guy is listed on the certificate as a "Christian witness"... So do we stick with them again or pick my brother and SIL b/c they're family?

And hubby doesn't care b/c he's not Christian and said we can do whatever.

So what have you done with your kids?

mrshudson618

Our kids will all have different godparents.
We pick our kids godparents as someone that they will have a special relationship, and that are practicing Catholics. Like you said, only one has to be, but we try to pick a married couple if we can.
Godparents in a more secular sense are who would be taking care or your kids if something happens to you, so in that way it would make sense to have them all the same. But I have never thought o godparents that way, and no one I know have them all the same either.

bumpuser9353653

Yeah for us it's more about a strong bond and someone the kids can go to for advice, and not who would take care of them if something happened to us. I think I might go with my brother and SIL since we already have that close bond with our friends and they will already be a part of the girls' lives no matter what.

Thanks for the confirmation that multiple godparents is normal. :-)

km_md

My brothers and I have different godparents but that is as much as I know on the subject so I don't know if that would be considered the norm or not.

TJ1979

Funny you ask. I just asked my brother to be P's godfather this morning. He is not E's godfather. And none of our godparents are married couples. E's are my cousin who is catholic and MH's best friend, who isn't. P's will be my brother, who is catholic, and my BFF who isn't.

bumpuser9353653

So many similarities,TJ!

R's are my good friend who is Catholic and an old teammate (and his wife) who are not. I think I'm going to ask my brother (Catholic) and his wife (baptised, but never confirmed) tonight if they will be A's godparents.

DH's sister would probably get guardianship of the girls if anything happened to us.