I stayed home with my kid for a few years when she was a baby. We couldn't wait to get away from each other once she started daycare. Our relationship was great then and now.

You have superb taste in music. As a hardcore rock snob, I assure you, you should just admit to what you have been listening to. His taste may well be inferior to yours.

Marianne is one of the top five favorite girls' names of mine. Also, weirdly, I've never known a Marianne who wasn't pretty.

My best friend and her husband (both nurses), face the same issue. You have my sympathies!

Jesus. Every single person I know has two days off a week. Every single one. Do the French only have one?
My kid is an executive at a corporation whose name you would immediately recognize. She only works five days a week.

Not everyone wants to be forced to work on any day of the week. I mean, work is something you have to be paid to do.
Having said that, I only work about 25 hours a week, at a full-time job.

I am old, and therefore have money, so I'll admit to having spent significantly north of $100 for a single product.

This is the last response I am going to make here. If you read down the thread, you'll see that my own child was the only kid with her name in a school system of 8,000 kids! Her name is a super old Roman name.
I have NO issue with unusual names. I just don't have an issue with "average" names.
I think Egypt Rose is…

This is not polite—not even polite sounding. It's just nastiness. Don't dignify it by suggesting it even approaches politeness.
It's petty savagery.

Wrong. My name is None of your tucking business. But I was the only one in my entire grade.
It's classic. And it's spectacular.

It's definitely not one of my favorites.

No. But I adore that name.

You could say the same thing if you search for my daughter. I have no problem with rarely used names. I just have no problem with common, classic names, either.
Rare and bizarre are not the same.

I am smiling as I read this, because I hope that when my daughter and her husband have a kid, if it's a boy, they will name him...
John. I have always loved the name. I also like Thomas and Ben. Plain old man names.
My daughter was the only person with her name in her entire school system. It's a very feminine and old…

I'm very closely related to someone who prosecutes the bastards who own "high end" strip clubs—most if whom are stinking tax cheats who beat and cheat the women who strip for them. And she helps the women who are the victims if the pigs she prosecutes.

I was referring to the Mary's, Jennifer's, Jessica's—you know, the ones that have existed for a long time.

This is what offends you incredibly? My goodness, you must have the most pleasant, easy life on earth if what I said about strippers "incredibly" offends you.

I was thinking about Jennifer and Jessica, but while Madison doesn't surprise me as a stripper name Emma sure does!

Your ridicule is misplaced.
First, my own child's name is very old fashioned, she was the only child in her entire school system of about 8,000 kids who had her name. I don't mind different names. I just don't look down on people with common names.

Those are really good names, so don't feel too bad.