what's in a name
a friend of mine asked me what the middle name we chose for Jorai was and i immediately cringed remembering that i questioned whether we would even name her and if we did would we name her Jorai? i feel ashamed for even thinking that we wouldn't give her the name we had originally picked out for her. but at the time, i was so lost. so devastated, maybe it was a way to hold onto her. if we never gave her a name, she would have to stay? and if we kept her name for another child, there would be a part of her in our next child.
we were told that naming our child would be healing, but i can't express to you enough just how healing it is.
we named our little girl Jorai Mae. Jorai Mae Newman. i'm so glad we named her. i wasn't sure if we were going to. we loved the name and quite honestly, i wanted to keep it. but the minute i thought about keeping the name, something in me cringed. i knew our baby girl needed a name and i knew even more, that she needed her name.
we didn't know that Jorai was a girl. i mean, we knew in our hearts she was. i almost always called her, her. we always knew, but we didn't know 'for sure' until she was born. every one else said she was a boy. both our families 'knew' we were going to have a boy, people thought by the way i was carrying her that she was a boy, but steve and i knew. that made it even cooler. knowing that we knew she was a girl before she was born was amazing and giving her the name we had originally chosen seemed right.
when i look back on it, i can't even believe that i ever thought about not giving her a name. how could i think that? how could i not give our daughter a name? i can't express to you enough how joyful i am that we gave her that name. the name Jorai, meant so much to us. the meaning, the way it sounded, the uniqueness of it. we just loved it. and it fits her perfectly.
it was so important to us to name her and give her a predominate place in our family and in our hearts. she will always be our child, our little girl, a big sister. she will always be part of our family. she will always be our Jorai Mae.
we were told that naming our child would be healing, but i can't express to you enough just how healing it is.
we named our little girl Jorai Mae. Jorai Mae Newman. i'm so glad we named her. i wasn't sure if we were going to. we loved the name and quite honestly, i wanted to keep it. but the minute i thought about keeping the name, something in me cringed. i knew our baby girl needed a name and i knew even more, that she needed her name.
we didn't know that Jorai was a girl. i mean, we knew in our hearts she was. i almost always called her, her. we always knew, but we didn't know 'for sure' until she was born. every one else said she was a boy. both our families 'knew' we were going to have a boy, people thought by the way i was carrying her that she was a boy, but steve and i knew. that made it even cooler. knowing that we knew she was a girl before she was born was amazing and giving her the name we had originally chosen seemed right.
when i look back on it, i can't even believe that i ever thought about not giving her a name. how could i think that? how could i not give our daughter a name? i can't express to you enough how joyful i am that we gave her that name. the name Jorai, meant so much to us. the meaning, the way it sounded, the uniqueness of it. we just loved it. and it fits her perfectly.
it was so important to us to name her and give her a predominate place in our family and in our hearts. she will always be our child, our little girl, a big sister. she will always be part of our family. she will always be our Jorai Mae.
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