My second grandchild is incubating. This newbie is due to arrive mid-January, making him or her a Capricorn like me. That’s got to be a good thing! The kids (that’s what I call the newbie’s mom and dad) are hoping for a boy so they can use the boy’s name they picked out when my granddaughter was born nearly two years ago. I’m hoping I can somehow talk them out of the boy’s name they’ve chosen, although I doubt I can.

They want the name to be Damien. They claim they don’t care that the name evokes images of a demon child based on some old movie that came out before they were born. Ok, I guess I can sort of understand that, but tons of people will hear that name and immediately associate the little fellow with a demon child. How can you make a good first impression that way? To me, that’s like starting a brand new website, and calling it ThisSiteSucks.com. Oh well, what can I do? I’m just the maw-maw, with no real say in what the kids name their new kid.

In the end, they’ll either:

A) Have a girl again, so the name Damien will be shelved yet again.
B) Have a boy, and somehow I’ve changed their mind to name him something else.
C) Have a boy, name him Damien, and I’ll just have to get over it.

More than likely, it will end up being C. Oh well.

(from Smash Mouth. "AllStar" Astro Lounge. Interscope Records, 1999.)

Posted on May 22nd, 2007 by DazzlinDonna
Filed under: Life