I would have been okay with it until that horrid Danny Devito movie came out. Now all I can think of is vengeful, mind-control girl who gets miraculously adopted in an instant.
I used to really loathe this name but it's grown on me a little. I kind of put it in the old lady category but I don't hate it. Mattie is cute.
Wow. I step away for lunch and look what happens! LOL
Maybe the squiggly-lipped icon wasn't my best choice of face. I am one-hundred percent on board with the normal name/normal spelling bandwagon. I just try to imagine what it would be like to carry a certain name as a kid. I don't particularly like the name Matilda. (I do, however, like the nickname Mattie.) That's where the "just me" comes into play. Now I know that it is, in fact, just me. Thank you for putting me in my place.
One of you mentioned, "3. It's none of [my] business." You're absolutely right. It's not. Except for when my sister asks me my opinion on a name (just like I did here with you). What my sister chooses to name her child is her business and her motherly right. I'll love my niece if she's named Fannee Underpantz. (Let's hope that's not an option.)
I HATE when people keep their baby names a secret!
oh, we totally did this. i didn't want to hear anybody's bullshit.
We had a list and didn't name them until we met them, but I think rattling off 6 names really helped people just be like "Oh, great!" instead of offering thoughts.
Though when Desmond was on the list my sister was like "No, you can't name your kid that." Good thing neither boy was a Desmond then! (I still love the name Desmond).
I HATE when people keep their baby names a secret!
I HATE when people are all, "We aren't sharing until little precious perfect name is here." That is annoying. However, I have no desire to hear anyone's opinion on what I want to name my child. So I am constantly saying, "No we haven't picked a name" and "No there aren't really any we like we aren't that worried about it" and if people really push "DH recently suggested Prometheus so we are taking a break from thinking about it" (that actually did happen). It did backfire on me this weekend when a friend of a friend spent an hour trying to name my kid and figure out what "style" I liked.
It's always been one of my favorite girls' names (as a kid I was a huge fan of Roald Dahl's book of the same name), but H is not a fan. I probably wouldn't have chosen it anyway, since it's become much more popular over the last few years.
I don't HATE when people keep names secret, but I do eyeroll a little. Then I get over it.
I hate! I make a little voodoo doll of the person and prick it with needles every night before bed.
lol. THAT'S why my back is always hurting.
i just didn't/don't want to hulk out and go all pregnant lady postal on people. i almost hit my aunt in the face when i mentioned that the husband and i had discussed (and then not used) eleanor and she was like "ew, that's for old ladies, i hate it." and i didn't even use the name! and i still like it! and i don't give a crap what may aunt thinks about anything because she decorated her whole house in guidette shabby chic style, including a fucking fainting couch and NO TELEVISION in her living room, so you have to watch TV in her closet-sized guest room.
I would have been okay with it until that horrid Danny Devito movie came out. Now all I can think of is vengeful, mind-control girl who gets miraculously adopted in an instant.
I would have been okay with it until that horrid Danny Devito movie came out. Now all I can think of is vengeful, mind-control girl who gets miraculously adopted in an instant.
and I think Matilda is a good name, also it's a royal name so that's cool.
I guess so.
tators I don't expect anyone else to "get the hate." Watching that movie, not knowing the plot beforehand, with a child who was abused and neglected by his biological parents, who you expect might relive memories because of it is awful. And I know it's not meant to be rational, but the way they show it so simple of passing a child around is a horrible representation of what adoption is and makes it really difficult to explain to a kid that no, we didn't just buy you and someone didn't just give you to us when we asked.
I would have been okay with it until that horrid Danny Devito movie came out. Now all I can think of is vengeful, mind-control girl who gets miraculously adopted in an instant.
So I can conclude you didn't read the book.
Nope. I was unaware there was a book until this thread.