I decided to change the title of this blog to something more descriptive, but not particularly interesting or creative. I don’t think it much matters, but I wanted to acknowledge that it has changed.

Since I started this blog, all kinds of things have happened. I am 40 now, and we’ve started attending an Orthodox church. The former makes me a little less certain about our chances of adding any more children, and the latter is just a factor that might influence my lists in the future.

I had a dream last night that I was going to have a baby, and we’d decided on a name for a girl (Mary Elizabeth, with the nickname Betsy) and were trying to decide on a name for a boy. When I woke up, I thought that ‘Mary Elizabeth’ would strike a lot of people as sounding very Catholic. (And that’s really ok with me, actually.)

I am not sure about Betsy. I think it sounds really cute and maybe a little old fashioned. I just wonder if it would sound like an old lady name to other people… And I wonder if I really care what other people think. It’s not exactly a bizarre name, and if I met a little Betsy, I would think it was a refreshing change of pace. But I will admit that my opinions about names are not necessarily widely shared.

I don’t really remember if we’d decided anything about a name for a boy. We were throwing around other good saints’ names like John and Peter. I don’t know if I would use either of those in waking life, though.