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June 2011 Moms
Oh MIL/Lo's name
MH and I got home from work at the same time tonight, he got out of the truck on his phone. After about 30 seconds I realized it was his mom. He kept saying things like, 'nope' 'not until june' 'everyone else is waiting too'
So I just laughed it off, his mom wants to know the name we chose for LO - too bad. BUT then he says, 'fine, talk to her' and hands me the phone (he's lucky I love him).
I spent the next 10 minutes telling my MIL that she was going to have to wait until the baby was born to embroider things, that is didn't matter that she lived 2 hours away, that this is one of the few surprises left in life and that we weren't telling my mom either.... around and around.
She finally said, 'Well I know it isn't Zachary or Zachariah' to which I said, "oh, how do you know its not Zachary?' (I have no idea where she picked these names) I then totally fanned the flame,oops. Apparently MH told her it wasn't common (so not Zachary) but that it was something he had only heard twice (could be Zachariah)...
Luckily my phone rang and I told her I had to get the other line - I imagine we will be having this conversation with her several more times before the end of June... I shall not break!
OH! Apparently she didn't even want to know the sex of the baby... so WHY would she want to know the name?
I just needed to put the crazy out there, MH already feels the same way so there is no need to preach to the choir.
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Re: Oh MIL/Lo's name
this had me laughing. of course i would want to know too if i were planning to embroider baby's name on a bunch of stuff. i make baby quilts for friends, and i always ask very hesitantly if they know if they are having a boy or a girl so that i can try to make a quilt in a suitable color. thus far, no one's kept that a secret. but i'm glad that i didn't make it a practice of sewing the baby's name on the quilt. two friends now have settled on a name only to change the spelling of it at the last minute.
Holy cow, I could have written this post! Haha. Except my DH broke down and spilled the beans. For BOTH gender options. So now my MIL calls the baby "girl name option"-"boy name option" like it's all one name. Which means the whole family knows (she's totally the matriarch of the family, always on the phone, etc.). I am disappointed, but it's done. Now my husband is calling the baby that too and it's driving me nuts.
I was skyping with my sister last night and she asked what we were thinking for names (first time she'd asked, what a polite sister) so I told her. It felt weird sharing, I didn't like it. And she just went, oh, how do you spell that, etc. AKA I don't think she liked our choices. Not that I am 2nd guessing now....but I think when the baby is here, there's no going back. Before the baby comes, I think people think that "there's still time!" and will still offer up other suggestions (my MIL is doing this).
Who knew this part would be so hard. Haha. In writing this reply, I am getting heated about the whole thing. :-)
Oh, and we don't know the gender either and my MIL spent HOURS trying to convince us to fnd out. She's a knitter.
I hear ya. Everyone knows our baby is a girl, but we wanted to keep the name we chose a secret til her actual day of birth. Most people accept this -- my mother does not. She asks me about the name Every. Time. I. Talk. To. Her. She even tries to take advantage of when I'm tired and get me to accidentally spill the beans. She's being so manipulative and it's not because she's big into monograms and embroidering names on gifts, she's just damn impatient. So now she tries to push my buttons by nicknaming the baby her own names and using them regularly to see if I'll tell her as a way to get her to stop. So right now she sends long emails about her granddaughter "Petunia" and how that name goes well with my dog's name, etc. It's funny some of the time, and so annoying the rest of the time.