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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Caroline
Charlotte
Edward (goes by Teddy)
John (goes by middle name of Clarke)
Anne (goes by middle name of Hadley)

Catholic family. Children in private schools. Mom's a cradle Catholic, one of eight children. Husband was raised nominally Christian in New England, but agreed to marry in the Catholic Church and raise the future children as Roman Catholic. Two Easters ago, he went through RCIA and converted! Prayers answered. He's now a more fervent Catholic than his DW.

Mom wonder often just how God can make five children from the same parents each entirely different from one another. These children keep you running, Mom. Good thing you left your teaching career behind immediately after Caroline was born! There are not enough hours in the day. You exclusively breastfeed and that's mostly helped you space your children out to a manageable 18 months apart.

Suburban mom who lives very near the parish so she can go to daily Mass. Makes her own baby food. Dirty blonde hair perpetually in need of touch up. Cleans her own house but is not a perfectionist. Can't be. Too many children for that. Kids are decidedly free range...they do not need constant supervision. Mom frazzled but knows these glorious, chaotic days are to be treasured. Teddy often plays priest with his younger siblings as parishioners.

I posted this -- they aren't my kids, but a family I know.

I've bolded the correct parts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nothing for Audrey and Eleanor? I'm curious what you're take on those names are.

Audrey and Eleanor wear smocked Bishop dresses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lila

You grew up poor and somewhat neglected because your mother worked nights at a diner to support you and your two little brothers. You lived in a trailer park and in high school, learned to sew so you could make the kind of Laura Ashley dresses that your mother could not afford to buy you. You got a volleyball scholarship to a state school and desperately wanted to be a Kappa Delta but they did not offer you a bid so instead, you became a Kappa Kappa Gamma. You married a GDI you met in one of your classes because he made you laugh. As an adult, you went through a phase of wearing satiny halter taps with bejeweled necklines but stopped when you realized they projected the image of "I mighta been born just plain white trash but Fancy was my name!" Now, it's Boden all the way. You wince every time someone on DCUM derides McMansions because you live in one and didn't realize until you came to this board that that was something others mocked. You also didn't know that the pristine cream colored wall-to-wall carpeting was something others mocked either, because growing up in a linoleum-floored trailer, you dreamed of nothing but lush carpet between your toes when you got out of bed in the morning. Your husband won't pay to refinish the home in hardwoods though. You claim Lila was named after your mother, but this is a lie. Her name was Trish.

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You! the writer of these. Were a volleyball player, or wanted to be one. (you 'accused' me of playing it, too.) But of not being good enough to play it in college. But I didn't-- I was a rider, 3 day eventing and polo. In college, too.

[Anonymous]

Eva
Margeaux
Veronica
Deia

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lila

You grew up poor and somewhat neglected because your mother worked nights at a diner to support you and your two little brothers. You lived in a trailer park and in high school, learned to sew so you could make the kind of Laura Ashley dresses that your mother could not afford to buy you. You got a volleyball scholarship to a state school and desperately wanted to be a Kappa Delta but they did not offer you a bid so instead, you became a Kappa Kappa Gamma. You married a GDI you met in one of your classes because he made you laugh. As an adult, you went through a phase of wearing satiny halter taps with bejeweled necklines but stopped when you realized they projected the image of "I mighta been born just plain white trash but Fancy was my name!" Now, it's Boden all the way. You wince every time someone on DCUM derides McMansions because you live in one and didn't realize until you came to this board that that was something others mocked. You also didn't know that the pristine cream colored wall-to-wall carpeting was something others mocked either, because growing up in a linoleum-floored trailer, you dreamed of nothing but lush carpet between your toes when you got out of bed in the morning. Your husband won't pay to refinish the home in hardwoods though. You claim Lila was named after your mother, but this is a lie. Her name was Trish.

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You! the writer of these. Were a volleyball player, or wanted to be one. (you 'accused' me of playing it, too.) But of not being good enough to play it in college. But I didn't-- I was a rider, 3 day eventing and polo. In college, too.

I have written a few of these, last night and this morning, but did not write whichever one mentioned volleyball before this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lila

You grew up poor and somewhat neglected because your mother worked nights at a diner to support you and your two little brothers. You lived in a trailer park and in high school, learned to sew so you could make the kind of Laura Ashley dresses that your mother could not afford to buy you. You got a volleyball scholarship to a state school and desperately wanted to be a Kappa Delta but they did not offer you a bid so instead, you became a Kappa Kappa Gamma. You married a GDI you met in one of your classes because he made you laugh. As an adult, you went through a phase of wearing satiny halter taps with bejeweled necklines but stopped when you realized they projected the image of "I mighta been born just plain white trash but Fancy was my name!" Now, it's Boden all the way. You wince every time someone on DCUM derides McMansions because you live in one and didn't realize until you came to this board that that was something others mocked. You also didn't know that the pristine cream colored wall-to-wall carpeting was something others mocked either, because growing up in a linoleum-floored trailer, you dreamed of nothing but lush carpet between your toes when you got out of bed in the morning. Your husband won't pay to refinish the home in hardwoods though. You claim Lila was named after your mother, but this is a lie. Her name was Trish.

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You! the writer of these. Were a volleyball player, or wanted to be one. (you 'accused' me of playing it, too.) But of not being good enough to play it in college. But I didn't-- I was a rider, 3 day eventing and polo. In college, too.

I have written a few of these, last night and this morning, but did not write whichever one mentioned volleyball before this.

sorry, then! You sound like someone else. The volleyball is a recurring theme, I read it in several and it stood out to me as I don't really think of it as a popular sport--but I could be wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Caroline
Charlotte
Edward (goes by Teddy)
John (goes by middle name of Clarke)
Anne (goes by middle name of Hadley)

Catholic family. Children in private schools. Mom's a cradle Catholic, one of eight children. Husband was raised nominally Christian in New England, but agreed to marry in the Catholic Church and raise the future children as Roman Catholic. Two Easters ago, he went through RCIA and converted! Prayers answered. He's now a more fervent Catholic than his DW.

Mom wonder often just how God can make five children from the same parents each entirely different from one another. These children keep you running, Mom. Good thing you left your teaching career behind immediately after Caroline was born! There are not enough hours in the day. You exclusively breastfeed and that's mostly helped you space your children out to a manageable 18 months apart.

Suburban mom who lives very near the parish so she can go to daily Mass. Makes her own baby food. Dirty blonde hair perpetually in need of touch up. Cleans her own house but is not a perfectionist. Can't be. Too many children for that. Kids are decidedly free range...they do not need constant supervision. Mom frazzled but knows these glorious, chaotic days are to be treasured. Teddy often plays priest with his younger siblings as parishioners.

I posted this -- they aren't my kids, but a family I know.

I've bolded the correct parts.

PP/writer here! Cool! I think I pretty much nailed it, if I do say so myself.

[Anonymous]

Alana
Leo

[Anonymous]

I wrote the other volleyball one, it was the cool girl sport at my school in upstate NY

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wrote the other volleyball one, it was the cool girl sport at my school in upstate NY

Hunh. I'm the polo playing PP. It wasn't at my high school. I can't even remember if we had a volleyball team...must have?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rolla, Coletta, Irl, Mildred, Walter, Barbara, Grace

You're trying out your secret stash of baby names, because deep down you are extremely concerned about how you will "appear" to the other DC elite you try so desperately to fit in with. Grace is your only child but you and DH are gearing up now for IVF to hopefully conceive little Walter.

You live in Arlington. You and DH met in college, lived in an apartment in Clarendon then bought a crappy fixer upper near Seven Corners after Grace was born. You work at a nonprofit and hate it. You secretly hope to get pregnant with twins so that you can convince DH that being a SAHM will be more cost-effective.

You LOVE the name you invented, Rolla, but will not have the balls to follow through with it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rolla, Coletta, Irl, Mildred, Walter, Barbara, Grace

You're trying out your secret stash of baby names, because deep down you are extremely concerned about how you will "appear" to the other DC elite you try so desperately to fit in with. Grace is your only child but you and DH are gearing up now for IVF to hopefully conceive little Walter.

You live in Arlington. You and DH met in college, lived in an apartment in Clarendon then bought a crappy fixer upper near Seven Corners after Grace was born. You work at a nonprofit and hate it. You secretly hope to get pregnant with twins so that you can convince DH that being a SAHM will be more cost-effective.

You LOVE the name you invented, Rolla, but will not have the balls to follow through with it.

Or, you went to college in Rolla, MO...

[Anonymous]

Colin
Alexandra
Haley

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Eva
Margeaux
Veronica
Deia

You're from New York and you care a lot about appearances. You are a SAHM and your DH makes high six figures - a lawyer/lobbyist. You have a house in McLean that some on this board would call a McMansion but, if called out on it, you would vehemently deny that it is one. You drive a large black SUV and shop in Tyson's Corner.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ooh, I want to play! Hudson and Amelia.

bump