Last night my step-mother-in-law drunk called us. My husband answered and after they talked for a bit about our son's name, hung up. She called 20 minutes later demanding to speak to me about the name I had chosen (Oliver). She told me that she hated the name. She told me "I swear to God if you're naming him after a dog..." This was because I am a dog lover and I'v spent my Saturdays volunteering with a local dog rescue for the past 5 years. She was referring to the video Oliver & Company. But in fact, the Oliver in that movie is a freaking CAT!!!
Next was because we have given him two middle names: one to honor a late friend of my husband's and the other is a family name on his side of the family! She told me that I was torturing my poor child because he wouldn't be able to say his own name. I told her that I had a long name and she told me to stop lying to her and that my name WASN'T long! Um...it's my name, I think I know how long it is.
And then we went back to his first name. She asked me where I had gotten the name. I truthfully told her that I had heard it in passing and I liked it because I didn't know a single person with that name and my husband liked it too. She of course insisted I was lying to her. She said that he was going to hate his name and that he was going to be teased at school. She told me that he was going to be born bald and have bright blue eyes like his daddy (more than likely he will have dark eyes and hair like me since my husband's hair color and eye color are recessive) and that he would be called Olive. Um...last time I checked, olives were dark green or black.
She told me that she would NOT have HER grandson named that. She said that he would go to her, telling her he hated his name. Little does she know that our son may very well be home-schooled AND that he will be spending VERY VERY little time with my in-laws. She kicked my husband out of the house when he was 17 and she has been raising her 2 year old daughter in the most spoiled, awful way possible. There is no way I will let her near my son. Thank God my husband's real mother is an amazing person so that our son will at least have one grandparent he gets to see often. Our son is due in March.