What's in a name?

I love unique names! My kids Aurora, Liam, and Carys were all chosen for their uniqueness, not like people don't have these names but needless to say I never have to write down last names on any of their things. I love being able to send notes to my daughter's school and say "I'll be picking up Aurora today" and that's it :)

I know a ton of people pick names because of the meaning also. I didn't really care so much about the meaning since who made up the meanings in the first place? Where did they come from? It seems that every website has a different meaning or different books have different meanings to all the same names. Like Julie means "soft haired and youthful"...what! While I do admit I have really soft hair what does that mean? Is that some kind of double entendre I'm sure it is. Maybe? I am pretty youthful since everyone that doesn't know me mistakes me for being 18 or I get "what, you have 3 kids? You look like you're still in highschool" just what every grown woman wants to hear NOT! And I also get to play like I'm a child every day at work which keeps me feeling young:) But what I really think my name should mean is "blunt and laid back" I think that suits me better. Now, don't get me wrong because I really think that the names we are given do fit all of us in different ways, but it is fun to look at the different meanings behind the names!

Aurora means "Roman Goddess of the dawn", but Aurora never even sees the dawn (not a morning person) I think it should mean "dramatic, stubborn, smart, and loving" in her case.

Liam means "unwavering protector or helmeted" what does helmeted mean? I think for my Liam it should mean "gentle, thoughtful, funny, and extremely caring" I can see him as being very protective of his sisters and family so I suppose his name fits him a little better than Aurora's.

Carys means "Loved one" and of course that fits her to a tee since she's very loved, but that could fit any of my kids. Carys would be more fit to mean "screamer, brute, silly, cuddly, and messy" in her case.

My husband Brian means "strong" that actually does fit him. His name could mean "mr.laughs alot" since he laughs at everything!!!!!! We both actually laugh at mostly everything but him more so than me.

We chose all their middle names from family members. Aurora has my Mom's middle name (Roselee), Liam has Brian's name and Carys has my Dad's and Brian's grandma's name meshed together (Rhea-Lou). I love to use families names in some way since that's what my family does.

I'd love to know what your name means and what you think it should mean to better fit you or if it actually does fit you? Or what your children's names mean. So let me know!

Countdown to Grad school

I'm officially registered for two courses at St.Mary's University! Theories of Personality and Developmental Psychology. Both of which sound extremely fun to me:) I'll go twice a week on Mon. and Thur. evenings for about 2 1/2 months then I'll get a little break and start over again. It should take me about 3 years and then I don't know what I want to be when I grow up.

It'll be hard for me to not be able to tuck the kids in or be with them at supper time twice a week since my family is the biggest thing in my life. We're always together as a family unless we're working, but otherwise if Brian and I go out to eat the kids come with us, if we go to a movie the kids come with us, if we go grocery shopping the kids come with us, etc. That's how we like it. I'm not going to get home until late in the evening so I'm interested in seeing how I do with getting my homework done and getting up to go to work in the morning. I'm sure I'll be amazing ;) That's just a joke but I know I'll get the swing of it again.

Well for now I'm just marveling in the fact that it's almost August, how sick! Hope everyone is enjoying their summer before it's gone:) By the way does anyone know if Big Lake is all clear of chiggers?

Aurora's 9?!

Alright, so I've been SUPER busy with work and hiring a new teacher, organizing, getting ready to welcome back all 76 students in the fall! I've also been busy writing a proposal and a budget proposal so that we can add on 4 more classes next school year adding 56 more kids to our awesome preschool which is much needed in the community. So usually when I'm at my computer I'm doing that stuff. But today I decided to play with my blog and check up on others:)

Aurora's 9 now! Oh man, where does the time go? She's beautiful, head strong, but sensitive, and she definitely has an opinion. All great qualities if you ask me. Brian and I took her to Nick Universe for her birthday and brought Liam along she just loved it. We all had such a great time. After that we all went to Olive Garden in Maple Grove and met family there to celebrate with her and eat some disgusting Italian food yuck! I had breadsticks though and those were quite good. We finished the fun day up at our house with some cheese cake, chocolate cake, icecream, and presents. Aurora was smiles all day:)

My kids and I have definitely been enjoying the summer. It's been very calm and stress free at our house. We're outside all the time except for rest time which is when Care-Bear takes a nap, Liam rests, and Aurora is forced to read! (What an awful mom I am) Aurora and I made a list of things we wanted to do as a family over our summer break and we have yet to go to Big Lake beach which is high on her list of things to do. I'm committed to making it there with the kids this week! We also want to go to Minehaha Falls, Science Museum, o.k. I guess I should go because this is the second time that our tornado sirens are going off so down to the basement we go!

Tagged!

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Tagged!

The rules of the game get posted at the beginning. Each player answers the questions about themselves. At the end of the post, the player then tags 5-6 people and posts their names, then go to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know they’ve been tagged and asking them to read your blog.

1. What was I doing ten years ago? I passed my driver's license exam and was able to drive all over by myself! I was working at Holiday in Onamia and hated it but there was literally like 2 places to work if you grew up in Onamia...Hills or Holiday that's it.

2. Five things on my to do list for today: Wake up, make a new pitcher of Iced Tea, go for a walk with the kids, wait for Lori to come and paint a pirate ship on Liam's wall, and type up some papers for work...So far all of those are completed what a great relaxing summer day:)

3. Snacks I enjoy: Plain Old Dutch potato chips with HOT salsa.

4. Things I would do if I was a billionaire: Pay off all of my friends, parents, families houses and pay off their old debt and buy them all new cars, donate over a million to my daughter's awesome Catholic school St.Andrews because the staff there rock and love the kids at that school, donate to St.Jude's which we give to at Christmas time which is actually Aurora's good cause because she picked that charity, donate to UNICEF, travel around the world with my family, finally go to Hawaii with my family, buy a house in Ft.Walton, FL next to my grandpas, I'd keep giving the money away to good causes until I had enough to retire on and of course enough to pass on an inheritance to my kids, nieces, nephews, their kids so on and so on. I'd definitely want to set up a college scholarship in my children's names to go to single mother's trying to pay their way through school. It's hard I've been there but it's all worth it at the end. My passion is working with children so I'd keep teaching. I also hope the money wouldn't change me in a bad way but with my blunt family I don't see how that's possible, we're all so blunt to eachother and keep eachother grounded:)

5. Places I have lived: FL,MN (Sadly I have lived in MN for way too long:(, why did I have to marry a MN'sotan?)

6. People I want to know more about, ie meaning TAG! YOU'RE IT! My sister (she doesn't have a blog...bummer)

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