Showing posts with label nicknames. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nicknames. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

What About YOU? Nicknames


This Monday’s “What About YOU?” question is on Wednesday, since Monday’s post was a big announcement about the “I Love My Blog Followers” drawing. Scroll down the page if you would like to win this basket full of office products and chocolate.

Okay, ready for this week’s question: Do you have a nickname? If yes, how did you get it?


When my mother was expecting me, she had chosen the name “Martha” for a girl, intending to call me “Marty” for short. My Daddy’s mother pleaded with her to reconsider. Seems she’d had a goat named “Marty” when she was a child. She told Mom that every time she called me “Marty,” she’d envision that pet goat. So Mom relented and named me after a close friend and minister’s wife named Jeanette.

Your turn…