Personal Narrative: What's In A Name
What’s in a Name?
By Delaney Hoke P6
My mother was at an ultrasound for me, and was reading a Reader’s Digest when she spotted a name of an author. And although Delaney was their last name, she loved it as a first name for me. She asked my dad about the name Delaney, and instantly loved it because his favorite musician, Jimmy Buffett, has a song called “Delaney Talks to Statues”. My parents had already agreed on the name even before they knew if I was a boy or a girl. My middle name Nadine, comes from my mom, whose middle name is also Nadine. My grandma gave her the middle name Nadine after the name of the nurse who helped in the birth of the child before my mom. She liked the name and thought the nurse was a sweet lady, so she gave the …show more content…
When I was two years old, I was outside with my parents while they were planting in my front yard. They had a bag of dirt that they were grabbing from to put down around the plants. I crawled over to the bag and started eating out of it, and my parents realized that I was eating dirt. My mom moved me away from the dirt and continued gardening, when I crawled back and started eating some more! For some reason, infant me wanted to eat dirt, but that name resulted in me being called piglet. It also doesn't help that I am an extremely unorganized person, or what I like to call, an organized mess.
I've always wondered what it would be like to have a different name. I always see names that I think are so cool, spunky, or pretty sounding, but I always realize that they would never fit me. Delaney is the perfect name to describe me, no other names fit. Maybe it's because I'm a little bias, but I think that Delaney is such a great name. I mean, there's a reason that there's four of them at our school. Delaney has been with me since before I was born, it's my name and I'm proud of it. Even though I may think other names are cool, nothing would fit me better then the name I had
By Delaney Hoke P6
My mother was at an ultrasound for me, and was reading a Reader’s Digest when she spotted a name of an author. And although Delaney was their last name, she loved it as a first name for me. She asked my dad about the name Delaney, and instantly loved it because his favorite musician, Jimmy Buffett, has a song called “Delaney Talks to Statues”. My parents had already agreed on the name even before they knew if I was a boy or a girl. My middle name Nadine, comes from my mom, whose middle name is also Nadine. My grandma gave her the middle name Nadine after the name of the nurse who helped in the birth of the child before my mom. She liked the name and thought the nurse was a sweet lady, so she gave the …show more content…
When I was two years old, I was outside with my parents while they were planting in my front yard. They had a bag of dirt that they were grabbing from to put down around the plants. I crawled over to the bag and started eating out of it, and my parents realized that I was eating dirt. My mom moved me away from the dirt and continued gardening, when I crawled back and started eating some more! For some reason, infant me wanted to eat dirt, but that name resulted in me being called piglet. It also doesn't help that I am an extremely unorganized person, or what I like to call, an organized mess.
I've always wondered what it would be like to have a different name. I always see names that I think are so cool, spunky, or pretty sounding, but I always realize that they would never fit me. Delaney is the perfect name to describe me, no other names fit. Maybe it's because I'm a little bias, but I think that Delaney is such a great name. I mean, there's a reason that there's four of them at our school. Delaney has been with me since before I was born, it's my name and I'm proud of it. Even though I may think other names are cool, nothing would fit me better then the name I had