Names

There used to be a time where people were given names for a reason. For example, I am named Rhonda because my dad is named Ron and he wanted me to have his name, my middle name is Anne because that is my mom’s middle name. There are so many reasons why parents choose to name their children a certain name.

This blog may be funny to some, it was most definitely funny to me. 😊 I have four nephews and two nieces and I realized that I only know two of their complete names! My sister and I started to brainstorm what were those kid’s names… and together we could not think of their names. So, we did what any great sisters would do and called our sister whose kid’s names we did not know.

She answered the phone with a smile on her face that I rarely get to see, in person, or over Duo (a phone app). It is sunny where she lives and she was out and about. Then as she is pulling into her driveway, we said, what are your kid’s full names?

She laughed so hard and said oh my gosh! Then she said well there’s the oldest. We both yelled excitedly we know him. We only know him because we babysat and raised him for the first six years of his life. Then she named the one under him, her oldest daughter. She named her without hesitating and we laughed because we were the ones who provided her with an interpretation of the name. Then she named the boy under her, and we had no idea of his name! And he is one of my favorite nephews 😊. She was like how could you not know his name and we all laughed.

Then she named her third son and paused. We laughed and yelled at her how do you not know your children’s names. She laughed and said oh my goodness. Then stated his complete name three minutes later. After we laughed, we said what is the baby’s name?

She laughed and said her first name and laughed even harder. We laughed too because we really did not remember that child’s name and we didn’t know how to even say her first name. I want to pronounce it the way it would be pronounced in Arabic but we are not Arab so my sister pronounces it wrong. LOL! 😊 After she laughed at how I said it she was like “dang, I cannot think of her name”. Then she said her complete name. So, I said wait we have to phonetically sound it out because we are writing the names down. And her immediate reply was, “don’t ask me how to spell it, because I will have to look at their birth certificates!” as she is laughing uncontrollably. It was the funniest moment we have shared in a while.

As she turns the car off and gets out, she yells, “where are your clothes?” and there is the youngest boy, happy to see her back from her errand. She goes into the house and there are all of the children whose names I did not know. The really funny part was that they did not know me either! They were calling me Granny and she kept saying, no, that is auntie Rhonda! Lesson from this, if you don’t know someone’s name or who they are the chances are they don’t know your name or who you are either! Have a great weekend and I hope this made you smile and inspire you to reach out to the family that may be less familiar to you.