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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:bumpedie bump. Long time no see.

Thanks for reminder … No response for last back story … so figured there no rush …. Will visit Anya and Margo over next few days …
SAHM 🦄


New list
1. Anya and Margo
2. Sagan, medium to well done
3 Lydia and Lyra
4. Xena and James
5. Mira, Mateo, and Olive
6. Nora , Gideon & Elijah (twins), and Laura
7. William and Henry
8. Annabelle

[Anonymous]

Im sorry I somehow missed Lincoln, soooo good! 🤣

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Im sorry I somehow missed Lincoln, soooo good! 🤣

I lived vicariously through them for an hour or so myself … what a life! 😀

[Anonymous]

They're all so imaginative. I wait impatiently for new installments. Please keep us entertained.

[Anonymous]

Anya and Margo

Anya: Russian origin meaning “Grace”. Indian version means Inexhaustible, Limitless, resurrection, Nightless, the one who is bright and shining. Anya is the form found most frequently in Russia, Poland, and other East European countries, while Anja is the preferred spelling in Germany Norway, Denmark, Germany, Sweden, and The Netherlands. Anya is feminine in some cultures, and unisex in several African and European countries, as well as in India. Anya was the 656th most popular girls name in 2020. 1 out of every 4,035 baby girls born in 2020 are named Anya.

Margo: female name of French origin that means Pearl. The name Margo/Margot is a derivative of the name Margaret, which means "a pearl." Margo is currently #46 on the Baby Names Popularity Charts
Margo is currently #760 in U.S. births
>>>>>>>>>>


You are a DC power broker in the old-fashioned, quietly kick ass under the table, and behind closed doors, type of way. Your phone calls are returned immediately by many more visible power holders who are regularly in the news.

Surprisingly few people have heard of you although you have served as deputy White House chief of staff and top advisor to various presidents on controversial issues such as health care reform, reigning in online misinformation, coordinated pandemic responses based on science, protecting voters rights, and Russian interference in elections.

You were a valedictorian and national merit scholar from the mid west who attended a honors program at a flagship state university with a full ride. You attended another top public school for post grad, and never regretted your choice although many elite private universities offered you admission and scholarships for undergrad and generous stipends for post grad. You would rather watch 2 Broke Girls/ Mr Mayor/ Call me Kat repeats than have joined a Greek sorority or secret society, and they were bad enough the first time around.

Surprisingly, few people in Washington appreciate your influence, which extends beyond the West Wing. When the president asks you to help get stuff done in an extremely polarized political environment, you work behind the scenes to bring people together and listening to each other.

Power brokers from both sides of the aisle come to you for advice on how to implement regulations that will effect large chunks of the economy.

You are married to a kind, smart and funny man of Creole-Indian descent who grew up in Mauritius. He has a colorful back story and sensitized you to the need to combat racism structurally and confront climate change in realistic ways. His entire home island country is vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change. Accelerating sea level rise and increasing number of severe tropical cyclones will likely result in massive economic loss, loss of life, and environmental degradation.

After slavery in Mauritius was abolished in 1835, his great, great, great grandfather was shipped from India, along with many others, to work sugar cane plantations as an indentured laborer.

This period of quasi slavery during British rule involved many brutal episodes. The indentured fought long and hard for respect. The term “coolie” was applied to the indenture, and has since become a derogatory term for Mauritians of Asian descent. The island became central in the trade of indentured labourers, (thousands of Indians arrived from Calcutta or Karikal) and were often traded to the West Indies.

As the Indian population became dominant after British rule ended, and the voting franchise was extended, political and economic power shifted from the Franco-Mauritians and their Creole allies to the Indo-Mauritians.

Hence, your husband’s family taught him to appreciate the struggles of those at the bottom of society and to seek to wield power wisely.

You met doing a Masters of Public Management and Leadership at University of Georgia (established 1785, MPA #3 program US News). You both liked the climate, shifting dynamics around diversity and vibrant atmosphere cloaked in traditions ripe for renewal. Stacey Abrams, who also hails from the MidWest but lives in Georgia is on your speed dial.

Your daughters are drop dead gorgeous as biracial children who speak English, French and some Spanish.

You chose names that work well for both your families. Anya although more commonly known as Russian origins (Chekhov’s character in The Cherry Orchard) is actually popular in India as well.

Anya and Margo attend a regular public school. You don’t swoop into save them when they falter due to making poor decisions such as procrastinating study. But if anyone messes with them due to their race, you are all over it. You are raising them with Midwest values to be kind, honest, respectful and to work hard. They are leaders in the School orchestra and science robotics club. They tutor younger children in transition out of homelessness via zoom once a week. They know with hard work and perseverance that they can do and become whomever they wish to be. They are being raised to lend their hands to others along the way.

Your DH has reclaimed the derogatory slang used for his ethnic group in Mauritius. He reminds Anya and Margo that they are simply “cool” and not “coolies”.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Anya and Margo

Anya: Russian origin meaning “Grace”. Indian version means Inexhaustible, Limitless, resurrection, Nightless, the one who is bright and shining. Anya is the form found most frequently in Russia, Poland, and other East European countries, while Anja is the preferred spelling in Germany Norway, Denmark, Germany, Sweden, and The Netherlands. Anya is feminine in some cultures, and unisex in several African and European countries, as well as in India. Anya was the 656th most popular girls name in 2020. 1 out of every 4,035 baby girls born in 2020 are named Anya.

Margo: female name of French origin that means Pearl. The name Margo/Margot is a derivative of the name Margaret, which means "a pearl." Margo is currently #46 on the Baby Names Popularity Charts
Margo is currently #760 in U.S. births
>>>>>>>>>>


You are a DC power broker in the old-fashioned, quietly kick ass under the table, and behind closed doors, type of way. Your phone calls are returned immediately by many more visible power holders who are regularly in the news.

Surprisingly few people have heard of you although you have served as deputy White House chief of staff and top advisor to various presidents on controversial issues such as health care reform, reigning in online misinformation, coordinated pandemic responses based on science, protecting voters rights, and Russian interference in elections.

You were a valedictorian and national merit scholar from the mid west who attended a honors program at a flagship state university with a full ride. You attended another top public school for post grad, and never regretted your choice although many elite private universities offered you admission and scholarships for undergrad and generous stipends for post grad. You would rather watch 2 Broke Girls/ Mr Mayor/ Call me Kat repeats than have joined a Greek sorority or secret society, and they were bad enough the first time around.

Surprisingly, few people in Washington appreciate your influence, which extends beyond the West Wing. When the president asks you to help get stuff done in an extremely polarized political environment, you work behind the scenes to bring people together and listening to each other.

Power brokers from both sides of the aisle come to you for advice on how to implement regulations that will effect large chunks of the economy.

You are married to a kind, smart and funny man of Creole-Indian descent who grew up in Mauritius. He has a colorful back story and sensitized you to the need to combat racism structurally and confront climate change in realistic ways. His entire home island country is vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change. Accelerating sea level rise and increasing number of severe tropical cyclones will likely result in massive economic loss, loss of life, and environmental degradation.

After slavery in Mauritius was abolished in 1835, his great, great, great grandfather was shipped from India, along with many others, to work sugar cane plantations as an indentured laborer.

This period of quasi slavery during British rule involved many brutal episodes. The indentured fought long and hard for respect. The term “coolie” was applied to the indenture, and has since become a derogatory term for Mauritians of Asian descent. The island became central in the trade of indentured labourers, (thousands of Indians arrived from Calcutta or Karikal) and were often traded to the West Indies.

As the Indian population became dominant after British rule ended, and the voting franchise was extended, political and economic power shifted from the Franco-Mauritians and their Creole allies to the Indo-Mauritians.

Hence, your husband’s family taught him to appreciate the struggles of those at the bottom of society and to seek to wield power wisely.

You met doing a Masters of Public Management and Leadership at University of Georgia (established 1785, MPA #3 program US News). You both liked the climate, shifting dynamics around diversity and vibrant atmosphere cloaked in traditions ripe for renewal. Stacey Abrams, who also hails from the MidWest but lives in Georgia is on your speed dial.

Your daughters are drop dead gorgeous as biracial children who speak English, French and some Spanish.

You chose names that work well for both your families. Anya although more commonly known as Russian origins (Chekhov’s character in The Cherry Orchard) is actually popular in India as well.

Anya and Margo attend a regular public school. You don’t swoop into save them when they falter due to making poor decisions such as procrastinating study. But if anyone messes with them due to their race, you are all over it. You are raising them with Midwest values to be kind, honest, respectful and to work hard. They are leaders in the School orchestra and science robotics club. They tutor younger children in transition out of homelessness via zoom once a week. They know with hard work and perseverance that they can do and become whomever they wish to be. They are being raised to lend their hands to others along the way.

Your DH has reclaimed the derogatory slang used for his ethnic group in Mauritius. He reminds Anya and Margo that they are simply “cool” and not “coolies”.

Please forgive the poor editing from my phone …

SAHM 🏝 ⚡️

[Anonymous]

Omg, please let me marry into this family! Can we at least be friends??

[Anonymous]

Wish it were true. Thanks, you're in splendid form. Very enjoyable. The 2 girls somewhat younger in age.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Omg, please let me marry into this family! Can we at least be friends??

😂 clearing branches and debris after another intense cyclone in the Indian Ocean to make way for you to meet the family at a climate change action conference in Mauritius. However, if that is a bridge too far, we can arrange for you to meet at an outside orchestral recital in spring … 😀
SAHM 🏝🎻👯‍♂️

[Anonymous]

Sagan

Sagan, Slavic meaning Wise one
• Polish and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : from Polishsagan ‘kettle’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of pots and pans, or a nickname from the same word in a less clear application.
• Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name from Sagan, a place in Lower Silesia.
• French (southeastern) : nickname for a loud or noisy man, from a dialect word meaning ‘noisy’.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>

As Jewish parents, you waited eight days after birth, to announce the name of Sagan in accordance with the common Jewish tradition for parents to wait until the bris (brit milah, the "covenant of circumcision”) to publicly share the name of your newborn baby boy. That's right: for over a week, you kept the name a secret from friends and family and just about everyone who popped in to see the new addition to your family.

You have a wicked sense of humor and wanted to acknowledge your son’s loud piercing screams during the infant “covenant” requirement. The loud crying was despite having a highly rated surgeon perform the operation as painlessly as possible. The name Sagan perfectly captures your hopes for Sagan to defy stereotypes of becoming a nice, quiet nerdy Jewish boy as you secretly hope for him to become a loud “hold no prisoners” advocate for his own and other peoples’ needs. To you, Sagan means noisy wise one.

Your Ashkenazi Jewish family goes back over a thousand years in Ukraine which is also home to many Mountain Jews, Bukharan Jews, Crimean Karaites, Krymchak Jews, and Georgian Jews. The Ukrainian Jewish community represents the third largest in Europe and the fifth largest in the world. Your ancestors helped to develop many distinctive and modern Jewish cultural and theological traditions such as Hasidism.

While at times it flourished, at other times the Jewish community in Ukraine faced persecution and antisemitic discrimination. In the Ukrainian People's Republic, Yiddish was a state language along with Ukrainian and Russian. The Jewish National Union was created and the community was granted an autonomous status. Yiddish was used on Ukrainian currency between 1917 and 1920. Before World War II, a little under one-third of Ukraine's urban population consisted of Jews who were the largest national minority in Ukraine.

During the Russian Revolution and Civil War in the early twentieth century, more than 35,000 and 50,000 Ukrainian Jews were murdered. The actions of the Soviet government by 1927 led to a growing antisemitism in the area. Pogroms were common: a pogrom is a violent riot incited with the aim of massacring or expelling an ethnic or religious group, particularly Jews. The Slavic term originally described 19th- and 20th-century attacks on Jews that occurred in the Russian Empire.

Around 1.5 million Jews in Ukraine were killed during the Holocaust, according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC. About 6 million Jews overall were killed so one quarter came from the Ukraine. Ukraine had been home to the largest Jewish population in Europe before the war, which was largely wiped out by mobile killing units called Einsatzgruppen and their collaborators. They shot Jews near their homes rather than send them to concentration camps.

Your grandparents’ meeting and long happy marriage was an exceptional happy ending during the brutal tragedy of the Holocaust in Ukraine. Your grandfather was a Jewish soldier in the Soviet army who had escaped a German prison camp. Your grandmother’s family saved his life in German-occupied Ukraine during World War II by hiding his identity as a Jewish soldier in the Soviet army. They hid their own identity as Jews by assuming the identity of Greek Orthodox Catholics with crucifixes and Coptic crosses on every wall and statues of Mother Mary in the front garden.

A few years after the grim horrors of the war had unfolded, they met by accident and bonded over shared traumatic sorrow and their hope for a better future. Like many other Jewish families, your grandparents emigrated to the US after the War.

Your synagogue is keeping watch on Ukraine’s rapidly deteriorating security situation, as 100,000 Russian forces mass on the border and U.S. President Joe Biden predicts an imminent invasion. Your Israeli-born rabbi, himself a refugee displaced by Russian illegal annexation of Crimea is ready to coordinate and support a fresh wave of refugees should the Kremlin order a fresh offensive. Your synagogue is working in collaboration with the Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS and the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews to help the Jewish community in the Ukraine.

Your grandmother’s family retained their assumed Greek Catholic identity as they remained traumatized by the persecution of Jews in their homeland. Ironically, to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, your grandmother’s family was recently recognized as one of the 30,000 "Righteous Among the Nations," an honor awarded by Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Israel, for non-Jews who risked their lives to aid Jews during the great genocide. In this case, The Lord did literally “help those who helped themselves”!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sagan

Sagan, Slavic meaning Wise one
• Polish and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : from Polishsagan ‘kettle’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of pots and pans, or a nickname from the same word in a less clear application.
• Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name from Sagan, a place in Lower Silesia.
• French (southeastern) : nickname for a loud or noisy man, from a dialect word meaning ‘noisy’.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>

As Jewish parents, you waited eight days after birth, to announce the name of Sagan in accordance with the common Jewish tradition for parents to wait until the bris (brit milah, the "covenant of circumcision”) to publicly share the name of your newborn baby boy. That's right: for over a week, you kept the name a secret from friends and family and just about everyone who popped in to see the new addition to your family.

You have a wicked sense of humor and wanted to acknowledge your son’s loud piercing screams during the infant “covenant” requirement. The loud crying was despite having a highly rated surgeon perform the operation as painlessly as possible. The name Sagan perfectly captures your hopes for Sagan to defy stereotypes of becoming a nice, quiet nerdy Jewish boy as you secretly hope for him to become a loud “hold no prisoners” advocate for his own and other peoples’ needs. To you, Sagan means noisy wise one.

Your Ashkenazi Jewish family goes back over a thousand years in Ukraine which is also home to many Mountain Jews, Bukharan Jews, Crimean Karaites, Krymchak Jews, and Georgian Jews. The Ukrainian Jewish community represents the third largest in Europe and the fifth largest in the world. Your ancestors helped to develop many distinctive and modern Jewish cultural and theological traditions such as Hasidism.

While at times it flourished, at other times the Jewish community in Ukraine faced persecution and antisemitic discrimination. In the Ukrainian People's Republic, Yiddish was a state language along with Ukrainian and Russian. The Jewish National Union was created and the community was granted an autonomous status. Yiddish was used on Ukrainian currency between 1917 and 1920. Before World War II, a little under one-third of Ukraine's urban population consisted of Jews who were the largest national minority in Ukraine.

During the Russian Revolution and Civil War in the early twentieth century, more than 35,000 and 50,000 Ukrainian Jews were murdered. The actions of the Soviet government by 1927 led to a growing antisemitism in the area. Pogroms were common: a pogrom is a violent riot incited with the aim of massacring or expelling an ethnic or religious group, particularly Jews. The Slavic term originally described 19th- and 20th-century attacks on Jews that occurred in the Russian Empire.

Around 1.5 million Jews in Ukraine were killed during the Holocaust, according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC. About 6 million Jews overall were killed so one quarter came from the Ukraine. Ukraine had been home to the largest Jewish population in Europe before the war, which was largely wiped out by mobile killing units called Einsatzgruppen and their collaborators. They shot Jews near their homes rather than send them to concentration camps.

Your grandparents’ meeting and long happy marriage was an exceptional happy ending during the brutal tragedy of the Holocaust in Ukraine. Your grandfather was a Jewish soldier in the Soviet army who had escaped a German prison camp. Your grandmother’s family saved his life in German-occupied Ukraine during World War II by hiding his identity as a Jewish soldier in the Soviet army. They hid their own identity as Jews by assuming the identity of Greek Orthodox Catholics with crucifixes and Coptic crosses on every wall and statues of Mother Mary in the front garden.

A few years after the grim horrors of the war had unfolded, they met by accident and bonded over shared traumatic sorrow and their hope for a better future. Like many other Jewish families, your grandparents emigrated to the US after the War.

Your synagogue is keeping watch on Ukraine’s rapidly deteriorating security situation, as 100,000 Russian forces mass on the border and U.S. President Joe Biden predicts an imminent invasion. Your Israeli-born rabbi, himself a refugee displaced by Russian illegal annexation of Crimea is ready to coordinate and support a fresh wave of refugees should the Kremlin order a fresh offensive. Your synagogue is working in collaboration with the Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS and the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews to help the Jewish community in the Ukraine.

Your grandmother’s family retained their assumed Greek Catholic identity as they remained traumatized by the persecution of Jews in their homeland. Ironically, to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, your grandmother’s family was recently recognized as one of the 30,000 "Righteous Among the Nations," an honor awarded by Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Israel, for non-Jews who risked their lives to aid Jews during the great genocide. In this case, The Lord did literally “help those who help themselves”!

Mazel tov Sagan!
SAHM (not Jewish) 🇺🇦 ✡️ 🙂

[Anonymous]

Stefan.

[Anonymous]

New list

1. Lydia and Lyra (no relation to Larla)
2. Xena and James
3. Mira, Mateo, and Olive
4. Nora, Gideon & Elijah (twins), and Laura
5. William and Henry
6. Annabelle
7. Stefan


SAHM 🦄 🙂

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sagan

Sagan, Slavic meaning Wise one
• Polish and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : from Polishsagan ‘kettle’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of pots and pans, or a nickname from the same word in a less clear application.
• Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name from Sagan, a place in Lower Silesia.
• French (southeastern) : nickname for a loud or noisy man, from a dialect word meaning ‘noisy’.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>

As Jewish parents, you waited eight days after birth, to announce the name of Sagan in accordance with the common Jewish tradition for parents to wait until the bris (brit milah, the "covenant of circumcision”) to publicly share the name of your newborn baby boy. That's right: for over a week, you kept the name a secret from friends and family and just about everyone who popped in to see the new addition to your family.

You have a wicked sense of humor and wanted to acknowledge your son’s loud piercing screams during the infant “covenant” requirement. The loud crying was despite having a highly rated surgeon perform the operation as painlessly as possible. The name Sagan perfectly captures your hopes for Sagan to defy stereotypes of becoming a nice, quiet nerdy Jewish boy as you secretly hope for him to become a loud “hold no prisoners” advocate for his own and other peoples’ needs. To you, Sagan means noisy wise one.

Your Ashkenazi Jewish family goes back over a thousand years in Ukraine which is also home to many Mountain Jews, Bukharan Jews, Crimean Karaites, Krymchak Jews, and Georgian Jews. The Ukrainian Jewish community represents the third largest in Europe and the fifth largest in the world. Your ancestors helped to develop many distinctive and modern Jewish cultural and theological traditions such as Hasidism.

While at times it flourished, at other times the Jewish community in Ukraine faced persecution and antisemitic discrimination. In the Ukrainian People's Republic, Yiddish was a state language along with Ukrainian and Russian. The Jewish National Union was created and the community was granted an autonomous status. Yiddish was used on Ukrainian currency between 1917 and 1920. Before World War II, a little under one-third of Ukraine's urban population consisted of Jews who were the largest national minority in Ukraine.

During the Russian Revolution and Civil War in the early twentieth century, more than 35,000 and 50,000 Ukrainian Jews were murdered. The actions of the Soviet government by 1927 led to a growing antisemitism in the area. Pogroms were common: a pogrom is a violent riot incited with the aim of massacring or expelling an ethnic or religious group, particularly Jews. The Slavic term originally described 19th- and 20th-century attacks on Jews that occurred in the Russian Empire.

Around 1.5 million Jews in Ukraine were killed during the Holocaust, according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC. About 6 million Jews overall were killed so one quarter came from the Ukraine. Ukraine had been home to the largest Jewish population in Europe before the war, which was largely wiped out by mobile killing units called Einsatzgruppen and their collaborators. They shot Jews near their homes rather than send them to concentration camps.

Your grandparents’ meeting and long happy marriage was an exceptional happy ending during the brutal tragedy of the Holocaust in Ukraine. Your grandfather was a Jewish soldier in the Soviet army who had escaped a German prison camp. Your grandmother’s family saved his life in German-occupied Ukraine during World War II by hiding his identity as a Jewish soldier in the Soviet army. They hid their own identity as Jews by assuming the identity of Greek Orthodox Catholics with crucifixes and Coptic crosses on every wall and statues of Mother Mary in the front garden.

A few years after the grim horrors of the war had unfolded, they met by accident and bonded over shared traumatic sorrow and their hope for a better future. Like many other Jewish families, your grandparents emigrated to the US after the War.

Your synagogue is keeping watch on Ukraine’s rapidly deteriorating security situation, as 100,000 Russian forces mass on the border and U.S. President Joe Biden predicts an imminent invasion. Your Israeli-born rabbi, himself a refugee displaced by Russian illegal annexation of Crimea is ready to coordinate and support a fresh wave of refugees should the Kremlin order a fresh offensive. Your synagogue is working in collaboration with the Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS and the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews to help the Jewish community in the Ukraine.

Your grandmother’s family retained their assumed Greek Catholic identity as they remained traumatized by the persecution of Jews in their homeland. Ironically, to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, your grandmother’s family was recently recognized as one of the 30,000 "Righteous Among the Nations," an honor awarded by Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Israel, for non-Jews who risked their lives to aid Jews during the great genocide. In this case, The Lord did literally “help those who help themselves”!

Mazel tov Sagan!
SAHM (not Jewish) 🇺🇦 ✡️ 🙂

Perfect timing given today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1945, and that Russia is poised to revisit aggressions in Ukraine. Nice that Sagan’s great grand parents survived and enjoyed a happy ending. So tragic for so many other families. May we all show noisy wisdom needed to resist such evil again.

[Anonymous]

Colin and Grant (twins)