I decided to link up with another blog today about
names- Andrea at Momfessionals. Since I've been in such a blogging rut I thought some topic ideas would be fun. Also, we aren't getting chickens for the county fair so that will cut my story opportunites way down this spring. There was some sort of ordering snafu with the chicks this year thanks to the bird flu. Jay gave Cade's to another kid so we are going to sit this one out. My electric budget says THANK YOU!
I don’t know if I’ve every talked
about how we came up with our kids names on the blog. Maybe they’d like to read this someday….or
maybe not. I’m sure reading their mother’s
ramblings will be high on their priority list.
But at least it will be recorded somewhere they can read it if they want
to.
Cade Ewing Shepherd
My sister is actually the first person to mention the name
Cade to us. One Sunday afternoon in the
fall of 2001, when I was barely pregnant, Charity was at our house. We were reading baby name books and she
mentioned Cade. It was different and I
kind of liked it. Jay said no. We talked about other names for the next few
months. By December I was already
thinking of him as Cade. I just knew
that was what his name was supposed to be. I just had to convince Jay. I had already picked out Ewing long before I
was pregnant. It is my mom’s maiden name
and my grandpa was the last Ewing from his family. Since he only had my mom there was no boy to
carry on the Ewing name. Since Cade was
going to be the first boy born in the family I wanted him to carry on the name. By January I had started dropping little
hints here and there to Jay about naming him Cade Ewing. One Saturday I spent the day with my parents
and I tried the name out on them to get their feelings. I didn’t commit to it, I threw it out there
with some others. The reviews were
mixed. I told Jay about it the next
day. The next thing I know he is one the
phone with his parents telling him we were naming the baby Cade Ewing . After he got off the phone I told him I hadn’t
actually told my parents. He just said “oh,
I thought you had. Oh Well.” About 6 weeks later Cade Ewing Shepherd made
his appearance. I still love his name as
much as I did then.
George Ewing holding his Great-Grandson Cade Ewing for the first time
Camryn Lee Shepherd
As everyone knows, everything with Camryn was
different. Instead of 9 months to plan
for a name we had six years, but of course we never wanted to talk about names
during that time. It was too
painful. And even if we did talk names it
was boy names. Never, ever did I think
we would have a girl. It’s also
different naming an adopted child. Do
you keep their original name? Do you
incorporate it? We had always thought
that we would take their birth name and somehow incorporate it into the name we
would give them. Once we knew we were
chosen and the baby was supposed to be a girl then we talked about it a little
bit. Then contact with Camryn’s birthmom
stopped and we were sure it was all over again.
We stopped talking names again and didn’t talk about them again until we
were on our way to the hospital to meet our baby. I didn’t even tell my family we were supposed
to be meeting a baby girl on Friday, June 3, 2011 until that morning. I asked Charity to send me a list of C names
that she liked. I had been thinking
about names off and on for a few days but never spoke them out loud. I had always liked Collins, from the Blindside. For some reason Collins Elizabeth kept coming
to mind but I never voiced it. Jay likes
to use at least one family name and Elizabeth wasn’t in either family. I just dismissed it. The other name I liked was Camryn. We had decided years ago that we could use
Lee as a middle name because that was Jay’s grandma’s maiden name. Camryn Lee went well together. When I got my sisters list of C names Camryn
was on there. I felt like that was the
one since she had also helped me pick out Cade’s name. When we laid our eyes on Camryn we knew she
was our girl. We waited to make a
decision about her name until we knew if her birthparents had named her. As far as anyone knew she was not named. Even at the TPR hearing she was called Baby
Girl. Six months later, at her finalization, we
found out that she had been named…and her middle name was Elizabeth. I always think that God knew she was Camryn
Lee. If we had known her middle name was
already Elizabeth she would’ve been named Collins Elizabeth. She was clearly supposed to be Camryn Lee
Shepherd. The baby girl who healed my
broken heart and completed our family.
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