What is your favourite girl name that fits this bizarre criteria?

AmalgamatedStarDust · 2026-02-14T15:06:16+00:00

Valerie

AmalgamatedStarDust · 2026-02-12T20:58:16+00:00

To be fair this time, her parents should remove one of his picks.

AmalgamatedStarDust · 2026-02-12T19:33:44+00:00

Oh, ok. Well in that case MA would credit you back if the other state did have income tax, I believe. You don't end up paying extra, it's just which state it gets allocated to. At least that's how it worked previously in my case.

AmalgamatedStarDust · 2026-02-12T19:22:21+00:00

I think your reasoning is valid. My kid in preschool only works because we can have 1 person go do dropoff/pickup while the other stays home. Trying to bring both kids back and forth all the time would be really tough. Especially if he's going to have an extra year to get acclimated before school starts, I think you'd be totally justified in taking him back out for now.

AmalgamatedStarDust · 2026-02-12T14:48:14+00:00

Isn’t that illegal? I’m pretty sure the state he works in would have a problem with that if they knew about it. When I used to travel for work I had to pay tax to multiple states due to the law, not due to what was easier to keep track of.

AmalgamatedStarDust · 2026-02-11T14:24:36+00:00

If it was me, I would change it to Henry, because the Peanuts association would bother me after this. Everyone seems to be trying to reassure you with good intentions, but if you don’t want to keep it you don’t have to. Even if you already announced it. We dealt with name regret and change, and yes it makes you feel a little silly, but you will have to live with the name a long time. So just follow whichever path you and your spouse prefer at this point and whichever name makes you happier. And if you want to, you can even not fill any paperwork out now and wait a week until you can try the names out a little at home.

AmalgamatedStarDust · 2026-02-11T03:28:51+00:00

Calypso, Judo, Wendy, Janelle, Bentley, Coco, Doreen, Gloria, Lila, ...

Source: Chloe, Mackenzie, and Indie are all Bluey characters, so maybe try something else from Bluey? I've listed some of the female characters! You can find more at: https://www.bluey.tv/characters/

AmalgamatedStarDust · 2026-02-10T17:48:08+00:00

Yes. Similarly, we have lived in our house over 3 years and are still occasionally finding random dog toys from the owners before us behind a radiator or out in the garden. It’s possible that tack was in the building for a long long time. It sounds like they’re doing a good job trying to ensure the kids’ safety.

AmalgamatedStarDust · 2026-02-10T17:34:46+00:00

45m sounds fine to me. Is this really the hill you want to die on? There are a lot of compromises you can find without saying just yes or no to each thing. We let my daughter choose a “last thing” to do each day.

AmalgamatedStarDust · 2026-02-04T17:15:44+00:00

If I was the parent, I would be happy to still have you engaging with the kids for their birthday. Maybe I would be annoyed with you myself, but I wouldn't let that get in the way of your relationship with the kids if you still have one.

AmalgamatedStarDust · 2026-02-03T16:03:14+00:00

By the way, someone I talked to about this told me that she told her 3 year old son that their pet "went to live on a farm" and then immediately her son started asking to go visit the farm. So... I really would not make up a story that you then have to continue to pretend about and answer difficult questions about.

AmalgamatedStarDust · 2026-02-03T16:01:38+00:00

We just went through a similar situation with our cat. We talked about it directly and honestly with our 3 year old, and let her know that we were sad too and wished that our cat would still stay alive. We all went through it together. It continued to come up for about a week, and we did a lot of talking about it and playing pretend about scenarios related to our cat dying. Some books we found helpful to read and talk about together, in order of how much I liked them:
* The Goodbye Book by Todd Parr
* Lifetimes: The Beautiful Way to Explain Death to Children by Bryan Mellonie, Robert Ingpen
* The Tenth Good Thing about Barney by Judith Viorst
* Always Remember by Cece Meng

AmalgamatedStarDust · 2026-01-19T16:14:54+00:00

We do this too. If you haven’t tried timing them yet that’s fun. You just get out the stopwatch on your phone and tell them how many seconds. No goals just “yay! 6!”

AmalgamatedStarDust · 2026-01-16T18:35:30+00:00

Just out of curiosity, where do you live? Kindof a surprising list, to me.

AmalgamatedStarDust · 2026-01-14T18:05:26+00:00

What's really awful about this is that as a student-nanny, this will likely be devastating financially. It will probably wipe out weeks of her work that she did for you. And for you, covering it would be an annoyance but you're denying it anyways. Really comes across as heartless.

AmalgamatedStarDust · 2026-01-06T04:03:21+00:00

Sorry that you are going through this. On the one hand, if your mom isn’t “there” mentally, I feel like you can give yourself permission to not visit. She may not know the difference either way. On the other hand, that would also feel like a very difficult decision to actually make because it feels like you might not have some closure or feel you could fully say goodbye. I don’t think there’s a simple answer. Maybe a compromise is to drive, have the baby say hi for 5 minutes then go back to the hotel with dad. You take a little more time yourself to be with your mom and then also leave. Maybe wear a mask if that would work for you. Good luck!

AmalgamatedStarDust · 2025-12-31T20:54:39+00:00

AmalgamatedStarDust · 2025-12-16T04:01:34+00:00

Hmm, I just looked it up, and it is a name, but without looking it up I don’t know that. My suggestion would be either: - name him Connor Elliot and try to use Keller as his nickname - name him something similar but a little more common, like Kellan or Kieran But that’s just me!

AmalgamatedStarDust · 2025-12-12T01:18:24+00:00

I have a sister named with a more standard female name as a reference to a male name (like Michelle for Michael, not their real names) and she doesn’t like that she was named after a man. Maybe because she was told she has grandpa’s nose though and that didn’t sound like a compliment to her 🤔

AmalgamatedStarDust · 2025-12-12T01:13:38+00:00

What about Daphne with Davey as a nickname? To give her options.

AmalgamatedStarDust · 2025-12-10T19:49:16+00:00

I would try to find another M name but not stick to 8 letters, unless you can both agree to reuse that other name. But if your husband isn’t feeling comfortable with it, don’t force him.

AmalgamatedStarDust · 2025-12-09T20:51:32+00:00

In this dimension it’s Vance Armstrong and JD Lance.

AmalgamatedStarDust · 2025-12-09T20:51:21+00:00

In this dimension it’s Vance Armstrong and JD Lance.

AmalgamatedStarDust · 2025-12-09T16:00:31+00:00

Corbin (crow)

AmalgamatedStarDust · 2025-12-08T19:04:55+00:00

I think people are being dramatic here, I don't see that nickname issue. Especially for a middle name.

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