Post your DCs names and we'll tell you what we assume about you. Snark is obviously expected!

[Anonymous]

Great, but tired minds think alike...that's what I keep in my bedside table, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
Fine. I give in. Do me too!

Ds1 John ( goes by jack)
Dd1 Virginia
Dd2 Meredith
Ds 2 Tanner

You never thought you'd end up with four kids. Four kids? And two sets of twins no less. After all, you were president of your sorority chapter, studied in Austria for a semester, and lived the single life in Chicago as a low level advertising rep for a few years. Then you met James, a former Mormon and defense analyst and everything changed. You guys moved to Fairfax Co so that he could be closer to his job at DOD. You guys struggled to conceive DC #1, so you turned to IVF. Voila, you were blessed with the first set of twins, John and Virginia. Then six years later, a second IVF helped you conceive Meredith and Tanner. Life is good as the SAHM to a large brood. And you had quite a tale to tell at the sorority reunion.

I'm not the PP, but I love this one. The details make this so perfect -- the semester in Austria and James being a former Mormon. I was supposed to go to a cocktail party down the street about 30 minutes ago, but this is much more fun.

This is me. But sadly not true - twins would have been fun ( and even sadder - no Greek life at my college ) ! Jack is fromDH first marriage 8 years older than Virginia Both dh and I grew up in dc and still live here. He is at DOJ and I'm a teacher

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Anonymous wrote:Bettina

Your husband is Chinese and you are British. You met in London while doing graduate studies, fell in love, and your joint search for jobs led to D.C. You work at the Library of Congress and your husband is at NIH. Bettina is striking and you often get compliments on her unique looks which match her unique name. Neither of your families is happy about the fact that you live so far from them, but you have regular Skype sessions and you try to get home for visits every other year. Alternating trips to the UK with trips to China. You hope to get Bettina into a Chinese immersion program and you are currently searching for a Nanny who speaks Mandarin. You hate cooking and your husband never learned how to cook so you eat out a lot. You enjoy reading sci-fi/ time travel books, you dream about doing a Baltic cruise, and you aren't good at parallel parking. You listen to podcasts of BBC's Woman's Hour while folding laundry and wish you had the stamina to listen to audio books. You hate "reading" board books to Bettina and can't wait until you can read The Secret Garden together. She will be bored by it, but you will insist on finishing the entire book and by the end you will have to agree with her. It is a boring book that you mistakenly remembered enjoying as a child. The same thing will happen with Paddington, but you will especially dislike the alternative option of reading Junie B. Jones aloud. What a horrid series!

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Anonymous wrote:Miles.

Married late, had your first at 38. Pregnancy was fraught with complications and even small problems - borderline gestational diabetes - we're ultra-stressful and you told your hubby it was one and done. He was 42 at the time and was more than happy to have only one. He has a sister, but they've never been close, so he doesn't feel the need for siblings. You live in Woodley / Cleveland park in a single family home on a small lot. No parking, but you renovated the kitchen recently and on nights you can't find parking, you assure yourself the kitchen makes up for the long walk in the cold. You and DH work in big law; DH was just made "special counsel." Miles is 6 now, so you're ramping up your work schedule; you reason that he's no longer a baby and his afte school babysitter is an AU undergrad who is a good homework helper. You often have your neighbors over for sunday dinner,

Well, we don't have a parking space, do use undergrad babysitters, and my husband is in big law. Not so much any of the rest. That was fun, though!

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Anonymous wrote:Best DCUM thread ever!

OK, I'll give it up:

Sam
Evan
Lily

Hit me with your best shot!

You had Sam and Evan without any difficulty and love them both dearly, but you were determined to have a girl so you put your name in the hat to adopt from China.[b] And then you waited and waited and waited. When you finally got that wonderful referral, Sam was in high school and Evan was in middle school. You had forgotten what it was like to change diapers on very little sleep while also dealing with the bundle of issues that come with international adoptions.[b] Your sweet, Lily, is a fierce and fiery toddler who keeps all of you alternating between adoration and bewilderment. You now juggle soccer tournaments with play groups and therapy sessions. You can't remember the last time you had sex with your husband and you find yourself forgetting important dates and familiar names. You are parenting a very different child at a very different stage of life and it all feels out of whack, but you can't admit that to anyone because you have plastered on a joyful smile while popping in another annoying children's cd. All will eventually settle down and you will sleep again and Lily will lead a fairly happy life and your boys will be proud of their multicultural family and your husband will be relieved to have you hold his hand again.

Well done. The kids are closer in age than you thought, but otherwise, you nailed it. They're now in HS and college. Lily is quite happy, I think, as are the boys (who are no longer boys, but young men). Though we are a multicultural family, I'm not sure we think of ourselves that way very often. Recently we met Evan's roommate's family for the first time and when the mom commented on this, it took me a few minutes to figure out what she was talking about (me: "Oh yeah, Lily's Chinese.") And, yes, DH and I are happy in our almost-empty nest. BTW, did you know the dog's name is Ruby?

I should have known...Ruby! The reason I nailed this one because it is remarkably close to home. Glad to hear all has worked out for your family and that the nearly empty nest stage isn't too sad or lonely

It's always surprising to me how many families who adopted daughters born in China also have two older sons by birth.

Not only do these families have two older birth sons, but the Chinese daughter is invariably named Lily.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous



Anonymous wrote:
Ahmad
Zahra


American-born convert married to an Arab Muslim.


Close...ish...American born Muslim from birth who married a former Baptist turned agnostic.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I posted on page 12 and never saw a response. So, trying again:

DD1: Maureen
DD2: Clara
DS1: David
DD3: Grainne

Maureen's named for your mom. Clara because it's pretty (and you thought it was unusual when you picked it). DH got to name David. Grainne was a surprise. You picked the name and you wanted something unusual and (obviously) irish-many of the other irish name names seem too trendy to you. Luckily, even with the Grainne surprise, you and DH still have a solid marriage. You would probably best be described as "culturally Catholic," but you would never let your relatives hear you say that, and the idea of divorce still makes you feel a little sick. He can be too focused on work, and you can be too focused on the kids, but since that rough patch you are really trying to make time for each other. You hope it will get easier as the kids get older. Maureen was such a sweet little girl, but now as a teen she's a handful. Catholic school didn't work out. She didn't care, because she wanted a school with art classes and boys, but it was awkward explaining it all to the family.

is this the one you were looking for pp?

Was there another one where Maureen was the child from a teen pregnancy, then mom became a dental tech and remarried the dentist with whom she had the other 3 kids? Am I blurring 2 thumbnails together here?

You're not. I wrote the one you're talking about. I wrote a few of them (Ryder and Jackson, Madeleine NOT Madeline, Vladimir and Natalia, the one where Kayla was the least favorite of Rhyann/Kayla/Damon/Lauryn, Single Mom Sam, Lila, Casey and Drew, Dawn and Danielle...maybe some others I'm forgetting. I had fun with it for a day or two.)

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Anonymous wrote:Anonymous



Anonymous wrote:
Ahmad
Zahra


American-born convert married to an Arab Muslim.


Close...ish...American born Muslim from birth who married a former Baptist turned agnostic.

Oh, I wasn't too close. But I do like the names.

[Anonymous]

Oh I also did Elinor and Milena, the one where the DD was Salome and mom was a crappy cook but gave a good blow job, Abigail, Georgia and some brother, and Camber/Cortlen/Cameron. And Colin and Riley. I actually did a lot more than I thought! (FWIW, I was way back on page 12... My DD is Channing and I gave our names for #2, whose sex we find out in a week. One PP absolutely NAILED me and I was so tickled I decided to join in.

[Anonymous]

Me next, me next!

Bryce
Zoe

[Anonymous]

Oh I also did Elinor and Milena, the one where the DD was Salome and mom was a crappy cook but gave a good blow job, Abigail, Georgia and some brother, and Camber/Cortlen/Cameron. And Colin and Riley. I actually did a lot more than I thought! (FWIW, I was way back on page 12... My DD is Channing and I gave our names for #2, whose sex we find out in a week. One PP absolutely NAILED me and I

Thanks for name compliments (Ahmad and Zahra). The crappy cook but good blow job line was hilarious in that other post. Congrats on pregnancy!

[Anonymous]

Yuri
Lara

[Anonymous]

Layla
Levi
Eli

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Me next, me next!

Bryce
Zoe
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Your husband make a ton if money in a small dot com business and you are suddenly wealthy (well, the money came around the same time as your first child). You were catapulted from a rental in Adams Morgan to a 6 bedroom house in Reston - where DHs company put down roots in a giant glass and steel tower. Not only did you not need to work, you actually couldn't work - the commute from the city was just too far and there's no one doing international development in Reston. You miss the challenge and feel a bit out if step with the Virginia SAHM set that never intended to work. All their kids are named either simple, plain names - Sarah. Tom. Or ultra-trendy - Braden and 2 jadens live on your block. You picked your kids names when you were at the London school of economics from a cafe and a novel you loved. The SAhM crew thinks they're weird and Bryce often gets called Bruce. You are currently working on getting DH to move to a more cosmopolitan part of town where you think you might fit in better. He likes his commute and likes having you home (home made dinner every night) and this is a nearly constant source of stress and anxiety.

[Anonymous]

Micah, Elijah, Benjamin, and Leah