- NAME CHANGE AT OUR HOUSE! -

well, it's official, brit's not BRIT any more - when we adopted her (3y old), we kept her name, but changed the spelling - it's not a name we would've chose, although it's pretty, we'd more than likely come up with something not so common - well, ever since she could 'care about a name', she's hated hers with a passion & has begged on a very regular basis for us to allow her to legally change it, but has been told no, repeatedly - the names she'd like are hadassah, brooke, summer, memory, etc. (yep, she's 16!) - her father especially is firm on this decision & has told her no - well, she's tried coming up with everything you can imagine to not use or even say her name (she hates it that much) - several months ago, we were talking (about the name thing) & i said, "well, if you don't like brittany, why don't you shorten it to something like brit?" - well she said, "i think i will as anything's better than brittany!" so it's been brit for a few months - well............... she & i were blog surfing today (again) & stumbled upon a blog with their family pictures - in that, was a picture of a lady named brittan - she said, "OH MY GOODNESS, I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE THAT NAME!!" - she then asked if she could go by brittan (just dropping the 'Y' in her given name) & sign everything as such - we've agreed as we truly want her to like her name & she's ecstatic!! - i've never liked my name either (i too, think it's boring, especially the generic way it's spelled... i don't know if i'd like 'laurie' or 'lorri better, but i think i would (sorry dad/mom!) so i do understand why brit (et hum.. brittan) feels this way - i think it's pretty common for adults to 'not like their names' & wish they'd something else (either more common or more different, whichever the case may be) - so we now have

• dustin 21
• brittan 16
• kiara 5
• ruby 4
• karleigh 3