a significant and familial name

I asked Cristiana yesterday afternoon if she wanted a brother or a sister. She said, very quickly actually, . . . “sister”. I told her that was exactly what she was getting! She grinned from ear to ear.

Later I told her that we were going to call her sister “Sally” for now, as that is what she wanted to name her anyway. But that when she was born, she would get her real name. She looked at me with a quizzical look, and said, “No, let’s name her after you. No, wait how about after Grandma?“

I said, “Barbara?”

She said, “Yes. No, wait, how about Gram?”

I said, “Ruth Ann?”

She just looked at me . . . not really knowing what to say.

Needless to say, she knows that her name is very significant and that she is named after Mama’s Granddaddy Christian Fisher Beiler, her great-granddaddy. And, of course, we do need to give “Sally” a very significant name as well. So, no, her name will not be “Barbara Ann” or “Ruth Barbara” or anything like that, but she will have a very familially (is that a word?!) significant name.