I know that EVERY mother tries to pick a name that usually means something to them, or has some sort of sentimental value. I selected my first born's name based on a name I imagined for her as a child. I always knew I would be a mom, as a child I would daydream of what my future life as a mother would be like and JASMINE always stayed with me thru many times of playing house with my dolls. Her middle name SKIE came to me when I was pregnant with her, and I tell her it means.."sky is the limit in what you can accomplish!"
Now with my son, his father and I had many disagreements on what he should be named. My husband would come up with the most obnoxiuos names that I would NEVER curse my son with! CEASAR? Really, what was he thinking?(your welcome son) Really the ONLY name we could agree on was KRISTOPHER, seeing that I wasn't fond of his first name VICTOR (sorry hun), but I honored him by giving Kris his middle name LEE : )
Of corse I wanted to give my new little one a name with meaning, so I began my search online to find something appropriate. Really, all of the names with great meanings were very hard to pronounce, or they just weren't that appealing. I was starting to get discouraged. Then my mom had mentioned that my 16 yr old neice had been doing her own search and came up with RAIN- which means, "blessing from God", and it hit me like lightning. I have often thought of rain as a bother, no one wants to deal with it but it's inevidable. And then I thought of my daughter's heart condition and how I so much don't want her to have to deal with any of what she will endure. I also realized that although a nuscience, rain is God's way of blessing the earth to keep everything growing, and just like the rain I consider my daughter to be God's blessing. ALIYAH is something that just came to me and put together with RAYNE, I now have my ALIYAH RAYNE : )
Needless to say that I look at the rain now with a whole new outlook. I will never complain about it ever again! For what is sunshine without RAYNE! ( MOMMY <3's U, baby girl!)
I dedicate this blog to my lil neice Briana Rodriguez, thank you for helping give your cousin such a beautiful name, <3 u, auntie Tonya!
