Hi Clay, I'm definitely glad you are there for your sister, and think there is lots of good advice on here so far. I personally also love my diva cup and the idea of menstrual cups in general, but would (posted to A highly unusal family difficulty)
My partner and I have agreed to do the same thing -- the first child will have his last name if it's a boy and mine if it's a girl, and then we'll alternate. After I decided I didn't want (posted to Last Names)
"On a side note, my partner and I are exchanging names. I'm taking his last name as a middle name, and he's taking my last name as his middle name." I think that's really cool! :) (posted to Last Names)
I can understand your grandmother's thinking, though, considering her generation. My great grandparents gave all their children "Firstname Middle Herlastname Hislastname". However, since her last name wasn't THE last name, it's just drifted around the family as an occasional middle (posted to Last Names)
I rather like the nordic (Icelandic?) tradition of naming the kids "BoyFirstName FatherFirstNames-son" and "GirlFirstName MotherFirstNames-daughter" I don't know what they do for marriages, though. Taking each others' last names as your middle name is pretty cool too. (posted to Last Names)
Just chiming in with everybody else: you're a fabulous big brother. And people have given you some great advice already, but I'd add a few things... 1) First of all, while I think your sister has chosen wisely in going (posted to A highly unusal family difficulty)
That is the Icelandic tradition, except they only use the matrilineal names in special circumstances; usually it's just FatherFirstName-son for both boys and girls. It does lead to a lot of people with the same name, meaning phonebooks have additional (posted to Last Names)
