Post #399- her name will be Caroline

I was recently interviewed for Storytelling Magazine and during the interview I was asked about my children's names.  Or maybe I volunteered.  I don't remember anymore.  I explained about Jonah's name and then she asked about Caroline's.  

I guess I'm just a big chicken.  If I weren't a chicken I would have insisted on making her first name Story, not Caroline.  But I know what it can be like to have an odd name and Jonah is used to calling her Caroline.  I won't rock the boat on this one.  Her name will be Caroline Story Watson.  I think that's the first time I've typed it all out like that.  

Josh picked Caroline and I gave him a hard time, but I think he knew I liked it from the beginning.  It seems simple and clean, and I'd like her to create her own story- you know?  I can't think of a lot of characters named Caroline, so it's not associated with anything.  It's not overly popular right now, so she won't have a half dozen friends with the same name.  She can be herself, and decide who that is.  

I know that I've said it before, but having a girl is a kind of terrifying thing to me.  Jonah was whole new territory.  Boys aren't exactly something I know how to deal with.  I've been making it up as I go along, and I suppose it hasn't gone too badly.  The unknown wasn't a bad thing.  There weren't any expectations to be met.  

But a girl... Girls are emotional and seem so much more complicated to deal with as they get older.  They need support and understanding- but they don't understand the power they can have.  I want to give that to her- an understanding of how capable and powerful she can be.  

Maybe I should have decided to name her Supergirl?

Instead I am giving her a name that she can define for herself.  Nothing to wild.  Something a shade unassuming that she can assume for her own.  One day she can tell me the story of herself.