You are working at your job, as a waitress, one day when a man comes in for coffee. He starts to flirt with you while you are serving him but you ignore it because it happens all the time. After a couple of days he comes back again and again. It goes on for a while and then he finally asks you out. He is very handsome so you hesitantly say yes.
What is your name? [name]Kate[/name] [name]Elizabeth[/name] O’[name]Rourke[/name]
What do you look like? Dirty blonde hair and grey-blue eyes.
What is his name? [name]Christopher[/name] [name]John[/name] [name]Rowland[/name]
What does he look like? Platinum blonde hair and blue eyes.
It turns out that the two of you have a lot in common and pretty soon you are boyfriend/girlfriend. When you are in your junior year of college he proposes and you say Yes! You get married the summer after graduation, and move into a two bedroom apartment together. You land a full-time job nearby and he goes on to grad school.
What is your job? Senior Editor for a publishing company.
What is your husband’s major? Criminal Psychology.
Things go perfectly until one of your coworkers notices you are using the bathroom way more than usual. She runs out and buys a pregnancy test for you which she insists you take right there at work! It turns up positive! You are shocked because you wanted to wait until your hubby finished grad school before having kids but you are okay with it and so is he. You have a boy! He has your eye color but otherwise looks just like his daddy.
What is your son’s name? [name]Arthur[/name] [name]Lucas[/name] [name]Rowland[/name] ‘[name]Art[/name]’
Your son is born in the summer so your husband stays home with him while you work full time. Then he goes back to grad school and your son goes to day care. When your hubby finally finishes his degree your son is eighteen months old. You decide to try for another baby and after 3 months you conceive twins! You have identical twin girls and give them names relating to literature.
Twin #1: [name]Hero[/name] [name]Eulalia[/name] [name]Rowland[/name]
Twin #2: [name]Lux[/name] [name]Ophelia[/name] [name]Rowland[/name]
When your son is two-and-a-half and your daughters are about to turn 1, you are surprised to find out you are pregnant again during your yearly checkup. It’s another son! Your husband wants the baby’s initials to be the same as his own.
What do you name your son? [name]Calvin[/name] [name]James[/name] [name]Rowland[/name] ‘[name]Cal[/name]’
You decide that you are done having biological children after your difficult 3rd pregnancy and settle in to a bigger home with your husband and four babies. But you are again surprised when your youngest is three when your hubby confesses he misses having an infant around! Because of your wishes to not get pregnant again the two of you decide to adopt. You fall in love with a four-month-old baby girl who is deaf and both of you enroll in sign language classes so you can adopt her. The foster mother has been calling the baby girl ‘[name]Catherine[/name]’. You can choose to use [name]Catherine[/name] as her first name and choose a new middle name or use [name]Catherine[/name] as a middle name and choose a new first name.
What do you name your adopted daughter? [name]Lydia[/name] [name]Catherine[/name] [name]Rowland[/name]
By the time you are able to bring your baby girl home, she is sixteen months old, your youngest is four, the twins are five, and your oldest son is seven and a half. Your family feels complete, but you aren’t feeling well! You go to the doctor because you feel like you have the flu, and he tells you you are pregnant again! You’re worried, but you and your husband feel blessed and go through with the pregnancy. You have twins again, a girl and a boy. Feeling clever (and maybe still high from the epidural) you decide to name the babies with the initials UH and OH.
What is the girl twin’s name? [name]Ursula[/name] [name]Holly[/name] [name]Rowland[/name]
What is the boy twin’s name? [name]Oscar[/name] [name]Harmon[/name] [name]Rowland[/name]
At seven children, you are definitely done! But now your older children are really starting to explore the world, and they want you to adopt a pet. Since you have plenty of space, you agree. Your oldest son wants a lizard.
What kind of lizard do you get? a [name]Green[/name] Iguana
What does he name the lizard? Boomer
The twin girls each want a kitten. You find them each a kitten from the same litter. They choose the kittens themselves.
What kind of kittens do you get? [name]Grey[/name] tabbies
What does twin #1 name her kitten? [name]Rupert[/name]
What does twin #2 name her kitten? [name]Ruby[/name]
You and your middle son both want a dog. Your husband gives in and buys a dog for the family. You let your son name it.
What kind of dog do you get? Pomeranian
What does your son name the dog? [name]Luigi[/name]
Your daughter wants a bird. You and your husband think a parrot would be a good way for her to practice her speech. You buy her an [name]African[/name] [name]Grey[/name] parrot.
What does she name the parrot? [name]Missy[/name]
The twins are too young to ask you for a pet, but you buy a small fishtank and put it in their nursery. They love to watch the fish swim around. You put in nine fish, one for each of you, and let the older children pick out names.
What do they name the fish? Mama, Papa, [name]Jake[/name], [name]Leroy[/name], [name]Bob[/name], [name]Apple[/name], Tickle, HaHa, and Glue.
You love your large family and couldn’t imagine life any other way!