In the year I was born, my name was the 9th most popular of all the baby names in America. My husband popped out at a cringe-inducing number 2. From kindergarten on, both of us had to put a last initial after our names, something that seemed grossly unfair to a five-year-old, to differentiate us from the two other kids with the same name as us. I swore I would never give my kid a name that had to come with an initial or some other distinguishing characteristic.
scarymommy We can still be our true selves, even through motherhood.
FROM THE MOUTHS OF MOMS
Confessional #25801863 "I sometimes fantasize about what my life would have been like if I had just stayed single, focused on my career, and never had kids."
