Me'ah
In Hebrew, Me'ah means heart. More literally it means the place of love.
When we were deciding what to get inscribed on Asher's new chair, we wanted to get something that symbolized Jorai. In correspondence we sign a heart for Jorai. So we originally wanted to get a heart monogrammed into the fabric. But they don't do symbols. Because of that, we chose to translate heart into another language. In our searching we found Me'ah and fell in love with the idea.
And then we found out that they couldn't do punctuation. Blasted. So, we chose to keep Me'ah and just place a space between the letters. They told us that it would be Me ah. I thought I could find a way to get an apostrophe in there. When we received the chair, it was spelled Me Ah. It looks like crap. Thankfully they said that because someone promised that we could have lowercase letters after the space, and they were wrong, we could return it.
So now we're going to get it spelled Meah. No space, no punctuation. But there's a part of me that wants to forgo the personalization and find a super cool heart patch. Any way, that's the story behind the chair and the personalization. We've gotten a lot of questions about it. We didn't want to personalize it for Asher since hopefully we'll have another child, so we wanted to bring Jorai's memory into play. Since she's a big part of our heart, we wanted to show that off and give the kids a place to be in her love. As cheesy as it sounds...
When we were deciding what to get inscribed on Asher's new chair, we wanted to get something that symbolized Jorai. In correspondence we sign a heart for Jorai. So we originally wanted to get a heart monogrammed into the fabric. But they don't do symbols. Because of that, we chose to translate heart into another language. In our searching we found Me'ah and fell in love with the idea.
And then we found out that they couldn't do punctuation. Blasted. So, we chose to keep Me'ah and just place a space between the letters. They told us that it would be Me ah. I thought I could find a way to get an apostrophe in there. When we received the chair, it was spelled Me Ah. It looks like crap. Thankfully they said that because someone promised that we could have lowercase letters after the space, and they were wrong, we could return it.
So now we're going to get it spelled Meah. No space, no punctuation. But there's a part of me that wants to forgo the personalization and find a super cool heart patch. Any way, that's the story behind the chair and the personalization. We've gotten a lot of questions about it. We didn't want to personalize it for Asher since hopefully we'll have another child, so we wanted to bring Jorai's memory into play. Since she's a big part of our heart, we wanted to show that off and give the kids a place to be in her love. As cheesy as it sounds...
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