kate3 wrote:LisaH wrote:Yay Christy, sooo very glad things are still progressing nicely! Summer is a beautiful name, and I wouldn't be in your shoes on the middle name for anything...good luck with that one. LOL
That is why my daughter is not named for any of my siblings. She would have 10 names. That is what I would call hyphenated.
It made me think of my sister's kids. Her ds got Leland <dad's name> <grampa's middle name> <other grampa's middle name> last-name. It's a good mouthful! For her dd, she only got two middle names. My sister never did like her MIL!
My dd got Louise which covered both sides being that dh's mom and my grandmother were both Louise. DS got Joseph which is my dad's middle name. We had hoped to have a third which probably would have went back to dh's dad for a name, but it wasn't in the cards. With 6 siblings + 2 in-laws, I never could have covered all if I tried to use those names. If anything, it was tricky picking first names that weren't already in the family.