You know what my Mom calls me? "My little flower pot". I'm 23. She gave me that nickname when I was a baby. She refuses to not use it. I can't wait until I give her grandkids and she can name them oddball names.
Can't tell you my other one or else I'm telling you my name.
ETA: To clarify, I was named after a plant. My Mom really likes plants. So...that's how that ties in.
My dad had called me the same nickname since I was 10 years old. He even has me in his phone as it. I highly doubt it will change now and I would honestly be kind of bummed if it did.
To my nieces I am "auntie (nickname)" and it's the nickname my sister uses because as a baby she could not say it.
Only my ILs and some friends use my name or the shortened version of my name.
My mom calls me by my name. My dad uses a shortened version that I hate, but he's done it for as long as I can remember so I can't really tell him that I hate it. I don't see that changing at any point.
It depends generally my parents call me by my name but if they are speaking to my daughter they refer to me as Mama. I also call them mom/dad unless its in front of DD then its grandparent names. DD is still little though and I want it clear who is who name wise.
Post by LeggsBenedict on Jul 6, 2013 10:30:17 GMT -5
Everyone tends to call me by my shortened version of my name, except for my parents and a few siblings. They call me by my full first name.
My two oldest siblings still use the nickname my dad used when I was younger. I hate it. they have my nieces and nephews calling me aunt nicknameIhate.
Henry's mom, even when he's not around. As in, I call her and say Hi mom, like a normal person and she says, Oh hi honey, how is Henry's mom? It drives me crazy. Alternately, she calls me a kind of weird diminutive of my real name, but H and the rest of my family do as well.
Melissa or Lissa usually. When I was a baby I always slept with my butt in the air so I garnered the nickname Stinkbug. My mom still calls me Bug or LissaBug pretty often.
A shortened version of my name (hush, moe!) and my dad calls me sweetie or sweetie pie. Well, he used to, I actually don't think he has used it in a while. I am 35 after all.
My mom calls me by my name. I never really had a nickname, excpet for one aunt. I hate the name she uses and have tried repeatedly to get her to stop, but no dice.
H's family calls him by his first name, everyone else calls him by a nickname of his middle name. When he got to high school, he introduced himself as the nickname, so that's all most people know him as. He doesn't care anymore what people call him, though.
My parents call me by my name -- it's one syllable, and there is no "shortened" version. It's what everyone calls me. Except my big sister, who sometimes calls me "kiddo" or my two year old nephew who calls me "aunt B" ( first letter of my name) because that's all he can say yet :-)
My name. My mom and her side of the family have always called me by my shortened name (like Jen instead of Jennifer), but my dad and his side call me by my full name (Jennifer, for example). That never changed after I had kids.