Names.

So things are progressing nicely with the adoption except for coming up with a name. Why is choosing a name such a hard thing to do? It seems to me that history may play too important of a roll. When we come up with names some may get shot down because we knew someone with that name and we didn't like them. The name is actually guilty by association, we shouldn't put such boundaries on names but we do or at least I do. I can remember being in grade school and sitting on the concrete steps at the school and thinking that I would name a boy John. There seemed to be a couple good athletes in the school named John so that was a good reason. I also remember having a friend named John but he spelled his name J-o-n. That seemed correct to me. When I met other Johns who used an "h" in their names I thought that wasn't right, that wouldn't be how my child would spell their name. I'm not sure that my naming methodology has changed much in twenty eight years. At least I have learned that naming someone John or Jon doesn't guarantee that they will be a great athlete.