Life is Strange & Full of Surprises

So, Peanut, your mom is always so full of wonder. I am truly in amazement at how people have told me that having a baby of my own would change the dynamic of the relationship I have between myself & my own mother. It truly has. You have brought some sort of strange understanding to us. I was talking to her yesterday & came to a realization about many things. First, I am like her in some ways. After years of thinking I had to be switched at birth because I saw more similarities between myself & people who weren't actually blood than I ever did with her. She was commenting on how no matter how bad things ever got, especially with us kids, she always saw the light at the end of the tunnel. Of course, there are still many ways in which things haven't changed. We were discussing names & I mention that if you are a boy, you will be Xander Joseph & if you are a girl, you will be Miya/ Meya Soleil. She proceeded to tell me that she hopes I have a boy because she doesn't like the name Soleil. She is concerned about the "lack of a saint's name" I explained to her that first off, Miya/ Meya is derived from Michael which means "like God" & Soleil means "Sun". There is a saint Solange & also I googled Soleil as a saint's name & it came up as a saint in Haiti. have to look into it further, but, maybe that will ease her mind... :) either way, It made me smile to know that I made her think a little. I gave her a little food for thought by saying that every name, even those of saints started out by being just another name... & Peanut, I love you!