November 16, 2018
Lit and Relit
I’m sitting with Rebeccah trying to research the meanings of baby names when she slaps her hands and giggles evilly; “Mom, you need to name the baby Lucia Irene Tart so she can be LIT!” (we already had discounted all the L I T names for boys because all she could find was “Lucuis” and we already have “Lucas”)
“I love this name! Lucia means bringer of light and so does Lucius, I’m going to find a guy whose last name starts with a T so I can have kids who are LIT!”
By now, she was writing names on her old Six Flags pass; using “Tank” as the last name. Christina heard the boy name of “Lucius Ivan Tank” and exclaims from the barracks, “Becky! Not Ivan! All I can think of is Ivan the Terrible; please don’t call my nephew Ivan the terrible!”
So now her Six Flags card holds “Lucius Ivan Tank” and “Lucia Irene Tank” – and Christina is like, “seriously? You just named your kids so they can have cool initials?”
Other such exclamations from the peanut gallery burst forth:
Jaquline: “You don’t even have a boyfriend, how do you know your end name will start with a T?”
Jillian: “I love Lucia Irene!”
Kimberly: “L I T; awesome, Becky! But then you’d still be RLT.”
Lucas: “Aaaaahhhhhhh!” (I think his car fell off the train track again.)
Christina: “Yeah, she’d be ‘relit’.”
Rebeccah: “Relit! I love that! So I’m relit and my kids will be lit!” *(Starts a funny sashay walk back into the dining room to put the permanent marker up)*
Just a glimpse into my funny world – and then as I start typing this, Becky shrieks, “Mom! Are you seriously writing a blog about this??”
(Yes. What else do I do with funny stuff?)
Thanks for reading!
Type at you next time…
~Nancy Tart
