excitescaredly & rocking the chairs

Two months to go. Just two. Oh dang, only two?

I'm so excitedly scared. excitared. excitescaredly? I'm not sure how much reading material will prepare me for parenting and the due date is sneaking up fast! How weird is it going to be to suddenly have to care for an infant 24/7?! I'm suddenly not so sure how well this plan was thought through. ;) Someone tell me that maternal instinct kicks in like a dream and keeping the tiny human alive won't be as difficult as it sounds. Though I'm 22, which is a pretty normal age to be starting a family, I feel so ridiculously young! I hope the grown up feeling comes fast. :-/

We finally found thee rocking chair at Deseret Industries. Woot! It's cozy and rocks like a dream. It reclines too!! Now we're in a pinch trying to decide on a fabric. I have a feeling this project better get done fast or it won't get done! 

We've narrowed it down to these:

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Go ahead and tell us which one you side with. :)

I can already imagine treasured moments rocking this little baby to sleep! 

Name Calling!

This one subject alone brings out the hormonal pregnant woman that is in me. Raging here. Just raging.

So you think you're better at naming people's children than they are, eh?

You think your idea of what a person's name should be is superior, do you?

BUBBLE BURSTER- You're not, and it's not. :)

Oh, what's that? It's just harmless fun to mock other people for what they have decided to name their children while simultaneously mocking, ummm, children? FALSE.

Here are a few of my favorite recieved responses when we've told our friends and family what our son's name was:

1. "Oh, really?"

2. "Oh. Hey, what do you think of this name instead?"

3. "You know he's going to be picked on mercilessly, right? 'SIMON SAYS! hahaha!'" [Congratulations on being among the first to attempt to bully my unborn child?]

Lastly, the one no one can believe a person had the GAL to say:

4. "That sounds like something you would name a child with a severe disability."

Not to mention every time my parents call it's: "Is his name still Simon?" or "What's his name again?"

(I love you Mom and Dad)

What a person names their children is personal and sacred. It's not up for questioning. Don't throw your better ideas in there and don't troll blogs with lists of names that are deemed unappealing to society. What the HECK gives you the right to decide definitively that these names are horrible? Just because it is a common practice to gawk at these names doesn't make it okay.

Oh, another thing, when did it become okay as long as you don't make fun of people you know? It's not. You're better than that. If you don't like it--get pregnant, build a baby inside of you for nine months, birth the child and then: don't name your child "Saylor". 

Just embrace the fact that in the future there will not be classrooms filled with:

Jessica A.

Jessica B.

Jessica C.

Jessica D.

John A.

John B.

John C.

John D.

Get over your idea of normal names and be kind. KIND.