Anonymous
Post 01/22/2016 11:32     Subject: Re:Post your DCs names and we'll tell you what we assume about you. Snark is obviously expected!
Jonas
Anonymous
Post 01/22/2016 09:23     Subject: Re:Post your DCs names and we'll tell you what we assume about you. Snark is obviously expected!
Anonymous wrote:Ekaterina


You named your daughter Ekaterina after your figure skating idol growing up. Sure, it's a hard name for most Americans to pronounce, but everyone understands Katia. You insist on calling her Ekaterina. After all, if you move back to Russia as you intend, you want her to be proud of being Russian. You and your husband both work in the medical field but are not doctors who attend lots of events at the Russian embassy. You live in Potomac, but in a small house. You tell people that you'd move some place better but you can't find anything nice on the market! This may be true, but it is equally true that you can barely afford your house as it is. There is lots of money for Katia, I mean Ekaterina, to have ice skating and ballet lessons though. After all, she is Russian and will succeed at both, you think.
Anonymous
Post 01/21/2016 23:35     Subject: Re:Post your DCs names and we'll tell you what we assume about you. Snark is obviously expected!
Ekaterina
Anonymous
Post 01/21/2016 23:08     Subject: Post your DCs names and we'll tell you what we assume about you. Snark is obviously expected!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Haley, Cassidy, and Alison


One of these things is not like the other.


Really? How so?


Alison is a classic name.

The other two names are very 80s. And very EWWW.


I don't know, I seem to remember seeing Elvis Costello in concert in the 80s. "Allisssonn, I know this world is killling yoooou..."
Anonymous
Post 01/21/2016 23:06     Subject: Post your DCs names and we'll tell you what we assume about you. Snark is obviously expected!
Anonymous wrote:Sebastian and Eliza.


Sebastian was easy to name- the name was sophisticated and interesting, but simple enough for your extended families to pronounce with their heavy accents. When you discovered you were finally pregnant again, you were not able to agree on a suitable girl name (not that you found out the sex before! It had to be a surprise, one of the few surprises in your carefully calculated life). You finally agreed on Eliza, a name that, while lovely, is not overly fussy or romantic. You were surprised at how much you loved being a mom with Sebastian, and sort of regret you came back to work so quickly. You're afraid of being bored while home with the baby, but globe-trotting and saving the world is not fun when your heart will always be with your husband and children. Of course you're too sensible to wallow in these silly emotions, and you didn't attend an Ivy League school to cook all day. You live in a small but beautiful row house in Logan Circle. Sebastian goes to a public school, but mostly because it doesn't make financial sense to send him to a private for elementary school. Thank goodness you managed to get you get son into a top charter so you could stay in the neighborhood you love. Eliza is on some daycare wait lists, but you're secretly happy that it's taking so long to find a spot somwhere. Your lawyer husband just wants you to be happy and now you have a perfect excuse to stay home... at least for a little while.
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2016 21:21     Subject: Post your DCs names and we'll tell you what we assume about you. Snark is obviously expected!
Ava
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2016 19:45     Subject: Post your DCs names and we'll tell you what we assume about you. Snark is obviously expected!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Haley, Cassidy, and Alison


OK, lemme tell you something -- these girls are the snowflakeist snowflakes GDS has ever SEEN. Haley without the "i," Alison without the double "l" ... these girls do their own thing and NO ONE is stopping them. In fact, you, Mom, are a bit of a free-spirit yourself. Your parents were hippies but you were a child of the 80s so you grew up with a bit more of a conservative bent (see: girl's names) and met your husband while interning for the House the summer after freshman year (#dreamcometrue for an aspiring politico like you, amirite?) You two kept in touch as you returned back to you UChicago and he to GW for the school year, writing and calling each other with your world domination plans (he'd be the President and you'd be the VP), but getting engaged at Georgetown Law and having kids got in the way.

Now, your husband has left law and you're a SAHM, more than happy to provide the needed support and stability to let your girls succeed and be the Sheryl Sandbergs and Condoleezza Rices of tomorrow. Granted, Cassidy wants to be the Alanis Morissette of tomorrow, but with enough Women in Politics/Business bootcamps for 12 year olds, you'll push it out of her.

Haley is the queen bee and is tops on her field hocker team; fockey is life, but so is abstract pottery. Cassidy has her musical dreams but also LOVES science and chemistry. Alison refuses to live in her sisters' shadow and is into math, theater and learning Gaelic all at once. They're a well-read (so far, mostly fiction) groups of girls who'll do well in life.


Hahahaha! We are both from the Midwest, state schools (and not very highly-ranked ones at that!), DH works in sales and I am a teacher. No private school kids here! The girls do like to read, though...
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2016 08:54     Subject: Post your DCs names and we'll tell you what we assume about you. Snark is obviously expected!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Haley, Cassidy, and Alison


One of these things is not like the other.


Really? How so?


Alison is a classic name.

The other two names are very 80s. And very EWWW.
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2016 06:04     Subject: Re:Post your DCs names and we'll tell you what we assume about you. Snark is obviously expected!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Finnegan (Finn)
James


You have Irish heritage but have never been to Ireland.


I've been to Ireland.
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2016 00:50     Subject: Post your DCs names and we'll tell you what we assume about you. Snark is obviously expected!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Haley, Cassidy, and Alison


One of these things is not like the other.


Really? How so?
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2016 00:44     Subject: Post your DCs names and we'll tell you what we assume about you. Snark is obviously expected!
Marissa
Stella and Felix (twins)
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2016 00:39     Subject: Re:Post your DCs names and we'll tell you what we assume about you. Snark is obviously expected!
Benjamin, Nathaniel, Miranda & Gwendolyn

Or Ben, Nate, Miri and Gigi.
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2016 00:37     Subject: Post your DCs names and we'll tell you what we assume about you. Snark is obviously expected!
Anonymous wrote:Haley, Cassidy, and Alison


OK, lemme tell you something -- these girls are the snowflakeist snowflakes GDS has ever SEEN. Haley without the "i," Alison without the double "l" ... these girls do their own thing and NO ONE is stopping them. In fact, you, Mom, are a bit of a free-spirit yourself. Your parents were hippies but you were a child of the 80s so you grew up with a bit more of a conservative bent (see: girl's names) and met your husband while interning for the House the summer after freshman year (#dreamcometrue for an aspiring politico like you, amirite?) You two kept in touch as you returned back to you UChicago and he to GW for the school year, writing and calling each other with your world domination plans (he'd be the President and you'd be the VP), but getting engaged at Georgetown Law and having kids got in the way.

Now, your husband has left law and you're a SAHM, more than happy to provide the needed support and stability to let your girls succeed and be the Sheryl Sandbergs and Condoleezza Rices of tomorrow. Granted, Cassidy wants to be the Alanis Morissette of tomorrow, but with enough Women in Politics/Business bootcamps for 12 year olds, you'll push it out of her.

Haley is the queen bee and is tops on her field hocker team; fockey is life, but so is abstract pottery. Cassidy has her musical dreams but also LOVES science and chemistry. Alison refuses to live in her sisters' shadow and is into math, theater and learning Gaelic all at once. They're a well-read (so far, mostly fiction) groups of girls who'll do well in life.
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2016 00:29     Subject: Post your DCs names and we'll tell you what we assume about you. Snark is obviously expected!
Anonymous wrote:Haley, Cassidy, and Alison


One of these things is not like the other.
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2016 00:29     Subject: Re:Post your DCs names and we'll tell you what we assume about you. Snark is obviously expected!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Arthur and Harry, twins


They were named after 2 of their great-grandfathers, both of whom were Jewish.


Wow, you're good (95% right)!