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[ravena_kade]

Someone I follow on FB posted a meme where you say hello using the meaning of your name. Until now I never thought of how appropriate my name is for me.I am not sure how my Mom came up with my name, because she really wanted Stephanie Elizabeth (one name), but I always was amused by the story that goes with it.

My Mom had me in a Catholic Hospital in Boston. When the nuns came around to ask what my name would be she said Jennifer. She says that the nun snapped at her...but she was still coming down off the epidural... that she couldn't use that name as it was not in the Bible. My Mother snapped back "Well Jezebel is a name in the Bible, should I name her that"?

Well however she chose Jennifer it is appropriate because in the Celtic language a prominant definition is White Wave... which ties me to my love of the coast and the sound of the surf and what it brings to the wrack line...I think a good wrack line is the best possible place to be walking.

And on another note, today I clicked on the website for my favorite jewelry store in Ipswich, where I bought my silver wave necklace, and I found that she has a line silver items that look like clams with fresh water pearls in them. There is a ring that looks like a bowl full of clams. I want to see if the jeweler could size one to be a thumb ring for me.

Comments

[cmcmck]

I suspect that had my parents got me right, I'd have been a Margaret as that was a great grandmother, grandmother and an aunt I never met because she died young.

[guy_todd]

that she couldn't use that name as it was not in the Bible

This is why humans can't have nice things. :p

[gwendraith]

Jennifer is a lovely name, better than Jezebel, LOL. Names should suit the child and family not a religion or anything else, imo