Oh Gawd the name thing. I have purposely kept the name of our daughter from my father and mother in law. Everybody else knows but them. Because I couldn't put up with the smirks and eye rolls from the mother in law when we suggested boy names. Now that it's a girl she has no idea whatsoever and I'm glad cos it's killing her not knowing
we are going to tell our family, three reasons - cause my sis is preggers too, so we want to pick names and "have dibbs first" even though I am due after her and so family can buy things and cause we just want to know! lol!
We started telling ppl when they asked if we knew "yes, but we're keeping it a secret" - but then I discovered that some people don't take the hint and their next questions is "so what is it"? What part of secret do they not get? Grrr! Although I have to admit that I don't think they're trying to be rude - they're just excited. But it gets really awkward then when I dig my heels in and won't tell them. So I've decided it's much better just to tell people "it's a surprise". Technically I'm not lying, because it IS a surprise - just not to us!
And if ppl ask about names, I just laugh and say we've got some in mind, but we'll probably change our minds later (although not likely as we both really like what we've chosen).
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