Twas Brillig

I’ve been tagged. Multiple times. I’m going to try to catch up here a little…

In the Spotlight.

Jenny and Jessabean both tagged me for this one, along with a myriad of others who say “if you’re reading this, consider yourself tagged” (not at ALL cliche…). I’ve seen it all over the web lately, and I’ve seen everyone answering DIFFERENT questions, so I wasn’t actually sure what the real questions are. So I went right to the Source, (and asked the horse, she gave me the answer that she endorsed, she’s always on a steady course, talk to Mr. Ed) and apparently there are several questions that I can CHOOSE from! So I guess I’ll answer the ones that I feel like answering!

1. What makes your blog unique? Well, let’s see. I’m a homebirthing, green-eyed, vegetarian, Mormon, world-travelled, “had-four-kids-in-four-years,” poliglottal, mommy-blogging Democrat who lives with her mother-in-law and writes under a Jabberwocky-inspired pen name. I like to think that makes me unique.

2. When did you start blogging? I started blogging two months and two days ago, to be precise. Before that, I had a different blog that I occasionally wrote stupid (and totally unnoticed) posts on from time to time, but I wouldn’t call it “blogging.” Then I became Brillig and I’ve been frantically blogging ever since!

3. What do you hope to accomplish with your blog? Make a million bucks? Take over the world? Hypnotize wild animals? Complete the tower of Babel? Punish all who are literate? You pick.

4. What are your feelings on the “blog popularity” issue? HAHAHAHA. I had to put this one in, because the WHOLE POINT OF THIS WOMAN CREATING THIS MEME WAS TO INCREASE HER BLOG’S POPULARITY. Well done, brilliant Christy. Well done indeed.

And now I will tag-a-roo. Hmmmm, who should my victims be today? I pick:

Whiskeymarie from Never what you think it should be
Jewels from Blonde Canary
Rebecca of Rebecca James
Believer of Believer in Balance
Jennifer from The Verge

Okay. Now to the second one. This one came from Butrfly today.

Where did you get your kids’ names from? (that’s not really the name, but it works…)

1. Fluffy is actually the nickname my little girl has had since she was in utero. I can’t for the life of me remember why her dad started calling her “Fluffy” and then when she was born bald (and remained mostly hairless until she was nearly 2!) it became just a silly name for her! Now her hair is actually quite Fluffy, so it works just fine. Her brothers all call her “Fluffy.” Her REAL name came from when I was working in a bookstore while I was pregnant with her and saw the name on a book and fell instantly in love with it, presented the idea to Hubby, he loved it too, and it was a done deal. What you should know is that she is named (her first and middle name) after who I consider to be the two most controversial women in the Bible. Beautiful names, beautiful together, and my way of saying, “back off–those two women were AMAZING.”

2. “Bubba” is just what we’ve always called him. His real name is his Dad’s middle name, which was Hubby’s grandfather’s first name, which was hubby’s grandfather’s mother’s maiden name. Got it? Basically a no brainer for me. But the name suits my little Bubba perfectly. Bubba’s middle name is my maiden name, which also suits him PERFECTLY.

3. “Scooby” is what Fluffy started calling him right after he was born. Hubby and I had decided not to find out Scooby’s gender before he was born, but for some reason we both firmly believed that he would be a girl. (If he’d been a girl, his name would have been Sophia Catherine. Isn’t that pretty?) Anyway, he was clearly NOT a girl when he was born and it took us TWO WEEKS to come up with a name for him! The name we settled on is so cute and we love it. It’s Biblical without sounding Amish… His middle name is Hubby’s grandma’s maiden name.

4. Lil’ Dude is an obvious nickname for my lil’ dude. I suspect it requires no explanation. As for his real name, he was my only baby born in the hospital and you have to name your kid before you can go home! We had NO idea what to name him. But I was desperate to get out of the hospital (hospitals in general make me feel that way…) so I kind pulled a name out of the air and Hubby liked it (after we’d been quarrelling about EVERY name up to that point), so we hurried and wrote it on the birth certificate app. and off we went! His middle name is yet another family name from Hubby’s side. (There are VERY FEW PEOPLE in my family that I would EVER EVER EVER name a child after, so I’m glad that Hubby had so many great people in his genealogy!)

And now, I tag
Thoroughly Mormon Millie
Braveheart-does-the-Maghreb
Mom O Matic
The Dead Letters
Families are like fudge…mostly sweet with a few nuts

Phew! Two meme’s down! Only about a thousand to go…