not so much

a little note to the mommy i saw at the grocery store this week:

i know you want to be trendy when it comes to naming your kids. i don't blame you, even though i'm more of a traditional baby-name kind of girl. i'll admit - i think it is kind of cute when all the names in a family start with a certain letter (think the Duggars - all Js). theme names can even be tolerable (faith and hope), although i wouldn't encourage it in humans (i did want to name my puppies salt and pepper, the hubs intervened. thank goodness). but naming your kids rhymey-rhyme names is just awful.

as we each pondered our cereal selections, i heard you call out to your oldest - jaden - and inadvertently rolled my eyes because that name is just everywhere (sorry to the moms of jaden, but its true). when you told jaden to be good, like his brother caden, i had to stifle a giggle. but when you cooed at fussy toddler aaden, my jaw almost hit the floor. i quickly put my honey bunches of oats in my cart and started to head out of the aisle. that's when i noticed that you are pregnant.

please, grocery-store mommy, pick a good solid name for baby number four. here are a few suggestions: john, samuel, benjamin. despite my recommendations, though, i fear the pattern will continue. what's it going to be? braden? hayden? heck, why not zaden or naden or paden?