Anonymous
Post 06/14/2013 13:54     Subject: Post your DCs names and we'll tell you what we assume about you. Snark is obviously expected!
Anonymous wrote:Bonnie
Miles


You live in Arlington with your long-time partner, Andrea. You used a sperm donor to conceive Bonnie and named her after your favorite aunt. She looks nothing like you thought she would look and you wonder if they switched the semen samples. You adopted Miles through the foster care system when you were living in Colorado and he has had some developmental delays that concern both of you. You love reading, taking long walks each evening, and playing Banagrams. Andrea works full time as a public defender and you attempt to keep things running smoothly at home. You don't always feel appreciated and wish Andrea would be more affectionate. You are on a first name basis with the children's librarian and never miss the weekly story time. You are considering homeschooling and have gone to a couple of park days with a local homeschooling group, but just aren't quite sure about it all yet and you are planning to visit a few different schools in the fall. Bonnie is four and Miles is two. You spend a few weeks each summer at the family lake cottage in Michigan and you spend every New Year's in Vermont with a group of your closest college friends. You hate crowds, religious zealots, and bees.
Anonymous
Post 06/14/2013 13:48     Subject: Post your DCs names and we'll tell you what we assume about you. Snark is obviously expected!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:uh, it said "nell" as in the girl's name.


Well, SURPRISE! Nell's a boy!


lol
Anonymous
Post 06/14/2013 13:48     Subject: Post your DCs names and we'll tell you what we assume about you. Snark is obviously expected!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:uh, it said "nell" as in the girl's name.


Well, SURPRISE! Nell's a boy!


LOL!
Anonymous
Post 06/14/2013 13:47     Subject: Post your DCs names and we'll tell you what we assume about you. Snark is obviously expected!
Anonymous wrote:uh, it said "nell" as in the girl's name.


Not PP, but I did a double take on that one. "Are my eyes failing me?"

I have considered Neil/Neal if we ever have a second. It's the name of the con-man working for the FBI on White Collar. He's sauve and smart. Doesn't hurt that Matt Bomer is insanely good looking.
Anonymous
Post 06/14/2013 13:43     Subject: Post your DCs names and we'll tell you what we assume about you. Snark is obviously expected!
Anonymous wrote:uh, it said "nell" as in the girl's name.


Well, SURPRISE! Nell's a boy!
Anonymous
Post 06/14/2013 13:43     Subject: Post your DCs names and we'll tell you what we assume about you. Snark is obviously expected!
uh, it said "nell" as in the girl's name.
Anonymous
Post 06/14/2013 13:42     Subject: Re:Post your DCs names and we'll tell you what we assume about you. Snark is obviously expected!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Tara


You were always best friends with the most popular girl. You did her dirty work, and she used you. Your mother always hated that the two of you were friends. You always begged your parents to buy you whatever the latest fashions were, no matter how ugly. When you got into a different college your mother was relieved, but you just repeated the pattern. You tried to get into 3 different sororities, but nobody wanted you. You ate two pints of Ben & Jerrys that weekend, and seriously considered killing yourself, or at least dropping out of college. Your dad consoled you by buying you a car.

When you found out you were pregnant with a girl, you vowed she would be the most popular, so you gave her a popular name. You have four pairs of Tory Burch flats. You practice name-dropping all kinds of proper nouns into conversations while you stand in the bathroom mirror after your showers. DH has heard you whispering once or twice and asked about it but you never tell him. He is concerned about how superficial Tara is becoming but doesn't know how to address it. He's tried to get her interested when he changes the oil in the car to no avail. You initiate sex every night before Book Club so you can brag to the girls that you and DH are still doing it, and that you initiate. You also imply you go down on DH but the truth is you only do that on Steak & BJ Night in March, plus when you want something big, like that time you wanted him to buy a horse for Tara. You swallow and are proud of that.


Wow, got a problem with the Tara in your life?


Lol, nope. Just tired of everyone else who does these making everyone perfect. I see Tara as a little bit of a trashy name. But only a smidge trashy.
Anonymous
Post 06/14/2013 13:40     Subject: Post your DCs names and we'll tell you what we assume about you. Snark is obviously expected!
Anonymous wrote:Nell
Audrey


Neil always hated his name. He is on the wimpy/uncoordinated side, and you even sent him to physical therapy three times a week one summer to try to help him, but it didn't really do much. He gets called Nelly a lot at school. DH finally introduced him to Neil Patrick Harris and now Neil is getting into magic and not begging to use his middle name all the time.

Audrey is the child you brag about. You braid her hair each night after her shower and in the morning she has shiny waves. She tells people at school she's an only child and has gone so far as to tell friends that you are just babysitting for Neil when they've asked why he's over when they've come for playdates. Audrey does cheerleading and looks so cute. On more than one occasion you have "forgotten" to include Neil in the holiday newsletter picture.

DH feels for Neil, and drinks a little more than he should. Once, he slapped Neil on the back in a friendly way and he went flying into a bookcase, breaking his glasses and leaving him with bruises, and DH cried a tiny bit telling you. Audrey has athlete's foot, but hasn't told you.
Anonymous
Post 06/14/2013 13:39     Subject: Re:Post your DCs names and we'll tell you what we assume about you. Snark is obviously expected!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Tara


You were always best friends with the most popular girl. You did her dirty work, and she used you. Your mother always hated that the two of you were friends. You always begged your parents to buy you whatever the latest fashions were, no matter how ugly. When you got into a different college your mother was relieved, but you just repeated the pattern. You tried to get into 3 different sororities, but nobody wanted you. You ate two pints of Ben & Jerrys that weekend, and seriously considered killing yourself, or at least dropping out of college. Your dad consoled you by buying you a car.

When you found out you were pregnant with a girl, you vowed she would be the most popular, so you gave her a popular name. You have four pairs of Tory Burch flats. You practice name-dropping all kinds of proper nouns into conversations while you stand in the bathroom mirror after your showers. DH has heard you whispering once or twice and asked about it but you never tell him. He is concerned about how superficial Tara is becoming but doesn't know how to address it. He's tried to get her interested when he changes the oil in the car to no avail. You initiate sex every night before Book Club so you can brag to the girls that you and DH are still doing it, and that you initiate. You also imply you go down on DH but the truth is you only do that on Steak & BJ Night in March, plus when you want something big, like that time you wanted him to buy a horse for Tara. You swallow and are proud of that.


Wow, got a problem with the Tara in your life?
Anonymous
Post 06/14/2013 13:37     Subject: Post your DCs names and we'll tell you what we assume about you. Snark is obviously expected!
Evan & Gracie, please
Anonymous
Post 06/14/2013 13:37     Subject: Post your DCs names and we'll tell you what we assume about you. Snark is obviously expected!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Skye
Mila


You live in Takoma Park, drive a Subaru, and have big front porch with a swing, comfy chairs, and Tibetan prayer flags. Your girls are creative, interesting, and a bit shy. Your husband has recently become obsessed with gardening and is on the quest to produce perfect cherry tomatoes. When he's not digging in the dirt, he's writing and frantically trying to meet a publishing deadline. You teach at a local pre-school and miss the days when your girls were younger. You are proud of how they are growing up but yearn for the cuddly, messy moments. You drive the mothers at the preschool crazy when you chide them to slow down and savor these moments with their little ones, but they also love how you nurture and sing to their babies. They drive you crazy with their frequent inquiries, special requests, and their worries about developmental milestones. You dislike the pre-school director and think you should have been selected for that job last year. Your family used to be vegan, but that was just too much trouble and now you are run of the mill vegetarians, although you have on occasion had celebratory pieces of bacon. Summer vacations include tubing in Luray, VA and hiking in Asheville, NC and you have a well loved golden retriever named Lulu.


Ha! I higlighted the only part that is right. Thanks, PP, very entertaining.
Anonymous
Post 06/14/2013 13:35     Subject: Post your DCs names and we'll tell you what we assume about you. Snark is obviously expected!
Anonymous wrote:Poppy
Callum


You live in Glover Park and like having an international mix of friends, but sometimes you find yourself missing the West Coast. You have a degree in Art History, but you have never really used it. You met your husband while both of you were doing Teach for America. When he decided to go to medical school, you happily tagged along to Chicago and helped to pay the rent by waitressing. You had a small wedding on a beach in Southern California and wished that you hadn't invited anyone. While your husband was doing his surgical residency, you worked in the admissions department of a local college until you became pregnant with Poppy. You moved to DC six years ago when he was hired to teach at Georgetown Medical School. You started getting interested in photography when your kids were born and have recently considered starting up your own photography business. Your husband keeps encouraging you do it, but you aren't sure if that is because he's really proud of your talent or if he just wants you to have some diversion to keep you busy now that the kids are both in elementary school. You worry about being good enough to really be a professional photographer, but you worry even more about being on of those dreaded cliches: a doctor's wife with a hobby. You like Green and Black's dark chocolate, ethnic textiles, and always have vase of fresh flowers on the kitchen table.
Anonymous
Post 06/14/2013 13:33     Subject: Post your DCs names and we'll tell you what we assume about you. Snark is obviously expected!
Nell
Audrey
Anonymous
Post 06/14/2013 13:25     Subject: Post your DCs names and we'll tell you what we assume about you. Snark is obviously expected!
Anonymous wrote:Amber
Lark


You are pretty down to earth and not a huge fan of the DC area. You and DH often talk about how great it would be to live somewhere else. But, as with so many others, your job only exists here and you've invested a lot of your time/self in it. DH could pick up and move pretty easily. You try to eat organic but in a non-judgmental kind of way. You were hoping that Amber would be a redhead, but it turns out that Lark both has the red hair and the firey temper. She wears you out on a daily basis.
Anonymous
Post 06/14/2013 13:11     Subject: Post your DCs names and we'll tell you what we assume about you. Snark is obviously expected!
Anonymous wrote:Skye
Mila


You live in Takoma Park, drive a Subaru, and have big front porch with a swing, comfy chairs, and Tibetan prayer flags. Your girls are creative, interesting, and a bit shy. Your husband has recently become obsessed with gardening and is on the quest to produce perfect cherry tomatoes. When he's not digging in the dirt, he's writing and frantically trying to meet a publishing deadline. You teach at a local pre-school and miss the days when your girls were younger. You are proud of how they are growing up but yearn for the cuddly, messy moments. You drive the mothers at the preschool crazy when you chide them to slow down and savor these moments with their little ones, but they also love how you nurture and sing to their babies. They drive you crazy with their frequent inquiries, special requests, and their worries about developmental milestones. You dislike the pre-school director and think you should have been selected for that job last year. Your family used to be vegan, but that was just too much trouble and now you are run of the mill vegetarians, although you have on occasion had celebratory pieces of bacon. Summer vacations include tubing in Luray, VA and hiking in Asheville, NC and you have a well loved golden retriever named Lulu.