Oh Sweet Mary Jane

Our sweet baby girl is 20 weeks in the womb-officially halfway there! Words cannot express how excited we are to meet her and hold her for the first time. I sit here wondering whose fingers she'll have, what color her eyes will be, if she'll have a Sustacek build or a Brown build. So many teeny tiny details that God is busy preparing and we'll have the joy of discovering in 20 short weeks!

The hubs and I were busy picking baby names before we ever knew we were pregnant. We wanted to stick with the "J" tradition in his family (John, Jeff, Jacob, Joel, Jade, Julia) and we love classic names. Mary Jane is not the most modern of names, but it is the one we have fallen in love with (we will call her Jane, for short!). The rest of the world, however, is not so in love with her name. It seems that everyone has a say in it. We are constantly being encouraged to change it to something more modern like "Brooklyn" or "Janessa". People love to list baby names they think we should use. Thanks, but I do have access to baby name books, I am aware of the other names out there, and-no, I'm not interested.

are you really naming her Mary Jane?

you aren't joking? That's for real?

which hippie picked out that name?

etc., etc.

People don't seem to understand how offensive these comments are. I don't expect everyone to love her name, but I would love if they could just skip the comments and move on to the next question, like "When are you due?" Yes, we love the name Mary Jane. No, we are not naming our daughter in support of Prop 19. Yes, we are aware Mary Jane is a term for marijuana. No, we were not high when we conceived her.

I'm beginning to understand why our good friends, Tiffany and Brian, decided to keep the sex and name of their baby under wraps until its birth. Nobody has time to criticize!