When DD was born, her naming was up to me. I always knew what her first name would be, but wasn't sure about her middle name.
My mum suggested a family name (it's a classic name that always gets a lot of love on this board). I somehow got it in my head that it didn't go with DD's surname. But I think it was the hormones! It goes perfectly fine!
I gave her a trendy middle name instead that we have no connection to and have always regretted it. What was I thinking?!
I could tell my mum was really disappointed too, I didn't realise till afterwards that it would have meant an awful lot to her had I used that name. And it's a lovely connection to generations of women in our family who had this name or a version of it.
DD is now 8. We were talking about some family history stuff, and the name came up. I said she'd almost had that as a middle name, and she said she really liked it. I said "we could always add it as an extra name now, would you want to do that?" and she said she'd really like to. I don't think she took me particularly seriously, it was more of an off hand conversation than I can convey here, I wasn't being particularly serious.
But it's got me thinking - could we add another name to DD's name without a load of hassle for her? Would it be a pain for her if we added a name or a nice thing to do?
Is this just a bonkers idea and I should go back to accepting I let the hormones get the better of me?!
Or is not so mad if everyone's happy with the idea?