We have picked a name

We have decided to name our baby girl Kassandra Elfriede Holloway.

Early in the pregnancy we were looking at and concentrating on boy names because we thought she was a he. Okay so we were wrong - we are all entitled to be wrong once in our lives. Anyway once we found out we were having a girl the name Kassandra Elfriede popped into my head. We continued to look through the baby name book to give other names a try. However we both really wanted the middle name of Elfriede so it was limiting the first name to names that end in 'a'. The other names on our list were great names but we still preferred Kassandra. For both of us it felt right and we loved it so we stopped looking.

Now if my mother was still here she would probably argue with us in using Elfriede, after all her and I had discussed it in the past and she said "don't do that to the poor child". It's a difficult name for most to pronounce and spell I shouldn't do that to a child. Well it was something I really wanted, and luckily for me Tom liked and wanted to do for us. Kassandra is one very lucky girl to be named after such a wonderful, caring, and loving mother and friend.