On Sat, 21 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In a message dated 7/21/01 5:13:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>
> <<
> None of the names currently under consideration for future children have
> that feature. Maybe I'm safe from that particular boo-boo. Maybe not.
> >>
> So here is my best name story. My brother in law named his sons Mark and
> Mathew. We then had our son. It took many years for my wife and I to get
> pregnant (well actually she got pregnant). Who knew you had to do that sex
> thing? Anyway we always liked the name Max. So now there were three M names.
> When Ellen got preg again and we knew it was going to be a girl and the M
> names seemed to be a family thing by this time. Now Ellen's favorite novel is
> Emma (she made me read it. amazing - 600 pages for the richest most beautiful
> woman in a small town to fall in love with and marry the richest best looking
> man -the highlight - the 2 inch snow storm). So it would have been perfect, a
> great name, book and a great play on the Ms. Only one problem we had a cat
> named Emma. I would have gone for (we could have killed or renamed the cat)
> but Ellen would have none of it. So we have Molly - a great name and a great
> kid not to be confused with a cat or a dog.
I like the name Molly. I'd want to call my third daughter Molly, but I'm
extremely unlikely to have 3 daughters now, already having 1 son and not
wanting more than 3 children.
So should I put _Emma_ lower on the priority list of the books in the
house I haven't read yet?
Julia
