Continuing the theme

Janie started a train of thought...
O.K. What did you name you child or children and why did you choose
the name??
My Daughter, first born:
Named: Janeen Marie, My Husband liked the song Jeannine I Dream of
Lilac Time ,by Gene Austin .
we changed the spelling, but that is where her name came from.
Marie???

Son: Clark Kevin ....Clark was Husband's Grandmother's maiden name,
and we also had a cartoonist friend named Clark..Kevin???
The middle names are just names we liked. Bette

Norma...

Our first son was named after his father. Second son named for my
brother-in-law and an uncle of my husband's. Daughter named by her
father and we both liked the names. :)
We had agreed before any of them were born that the names would be
fairly short so the children could print and spell them easily when
starting school, thus - Harry, John, and Anne.
Norma

Joy...

Jean B....

I love those stories, Joy. Boy, you've had lots of cats!

Joy...

Yes, I have. I even forgot about Taz. He also had his name when I got him.
Taz was short for Tazmanian devil, and I could tell why he got that name.
He was very playful, but he didn't know enough to keep his claws in when he
was playing with me. The scars on my hands and wrists have pretty much
disappeared by now, but they were very visible for quite a while.

Jean B....

You're lucky to have had so many loves, but then you have also
had a lot of losses.

Joy...

That's true. And I haven't even mentioned the dogs.

Still, my take is that if you allow yourself to love, you are setting
yourself up to be hurt. But life without love isn't worth much.

Jean B....

Yes, I agree--and I was thinking that as I wrote the above.

Joy...

How interesting! I wonder if there was a children's story about a little
girl, or an animal, named Suzie Q that we both read or heard.

Jean B....

Or a song? Possibly something in our parents' generation too?

Marilee...

I looked it up on Wikipedia:

I had no idea until now that the CCR song was originally written and
recorded in 1956!

Marilee

Joy...

TexGal...

There was this little girl, now known as TexGal, who was nicknamed Suzie Q
by her grandfather .... :)

Joy...

My Dad called my niece Cricket when she was young. My mother named her last
dog Cricket, as a remembrance of my Dad, as much as anything.

Jean B....

Oh, interesting. So where did this come from?

Hmm. Well, the 1956 version wouldn't have influenced me as a child, because
that was the year I got married. However, I might have heard the earlier
version. We listened to the radio some, and I took tap dancing beginning at
the age of four, so it's possible I heard it there.

Jean B....

How interesting! Thanks, Marilee. I wish I could ask my
folks about the song.

Marilee...

If I think of it, I'm going to ask Mom. She loves to talk about dancing
when she was young. (She and one of her cousins, for instance, used to
perform the Highland Fling for functions. I don't know where she learned
it, because she was French and Pennsylvania Dutch.)

Marilee

Chakolate...

Especially "Rudolfo L. Gato". :-)

My daughter is Irene Elizabeth. Irene is my middle name, and was also my
grandmother's middle name. Elizabeth was just a name I liked. Actually, my
first choice was Elizabeth Elaine, just because I liked the sound of them,
but Jim nixed that.

My son is Daniel Walter. Daniel just because I liked the name. Walter is
my maiden name. Interestingly, my mother-in-law suggested it as a first
name, but we decided to use it as a middle name.