{"id":1303,"date":"2018-03-18T09:14:31","date_gmt":"2018-03-18T09:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hopemeetsjoy.com\/?p=1303"},"modified":"2018-03-18T09:14:31","modified_gmt":"2018-03-18T09:14:31","slug":"the-story-behind-her-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hopemeetsjoy.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/18\/the-story-behind-her-name\/","title":{"rendered":"the story behind her name"},"content":{"rendered":"

So while we were on our “we’re not pregnant so why not?” vacation in Ireland, we stopped in a bookstore to search for a souvenir for our nephews.\u00a0\u00a0 Tony picked up a book called A Dublin Fairytale<\/em> and we browsed through it.\u00a0 It was about a little girl named Fiona.\u00a0\u00a0 I looked up at Tony and said, “if we ever have a baby someday, and she happens to be a girl, I kind of like this name.”\u00a0 Tony agreed.<\/p>\n

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2 days later I was officially “late,” bought a test and it was positive.\u00a0 That day we said again, “if it is a girl, we should name her Fiona.”<\/p>\n

At 14 weeks we had a friend order a confetti cannon to surprise us with our baby’s gender.\u00a0 Right before the cannon went off, I thought to myself, “please be a little girl.”\u00a0 And the pink confetti that came shooting out made me literally jump for joy.\u00a0 We recorded the reveal and at the end of the video, we call her by her name.\u00a0 It has been her name since before we knew we were pregnant.<\/p>\n

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Around Christmas we ordered the book off Amazon and read it to my bump on Christmas night.<\/p>\n

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As far as her middle name, Clare (the Irish spelling is without the “i”) is a county in Ireland that we visited during our trip.\u00a0\u00a0 We stayed in Doolin one night, right outside of the Cliffs of Moher in county Clare.<\/p>\n

Fiona means “fair, white” and Clare means “bright, clear.”\u00a0 We plan on calling her “Fi” for short.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

The book has a neat message too- Fiona is trying to get to her grandmother’s in a hurry and other characters keep interrupting her trip to ask her for help.\u00a0 Fiona always helps them, despite her own plans.\u00a0 In the end\u00a0Fiona needs their help, and they all come to her rescue.\u00a0 A lesson about being good to others and Karma? Yes please!\u00a0 We named her in Ireland and haven’t thought twice about it! Welcome to the world, Fiona Clare!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So while we were on our “we’re not pregnant so why not?” vacation in Ireland, we stopped in a bookstore to search for a souvenir for our nephews.\u00a0\u00a0 Tony picked up a book called A Dublin Fairytale and we browsed through it.\u00a0 It was about a little girl named Fiona.\u00a0\u00a0 I looked up at Tony and said, “if we ever have a baby someday, and she happens to be a girl, I kind of like this name.”\u00a0 Tony agreed. 2 days later I was officially “late,” bought a test and it was positive.\u00a0 That day we said again, “if it is a girl, we should name her Fiona.” At 14 weeks we had a friend order a confetti cannon to surprise us with our baby’s gender.\u00a0 Right before the cannon went off, I thought to myself, “please be a little girl.”\u00a0 And the pink confetti that came shooting out made me literally jump for joy.\u00a0 We recorded the reveal and at the end of the video, we call her by her name.\u00a0 It has been her name since before we knew we were pregnant. Around Christmas we ordered the book off Amazon and read it to my bump on Christmas night.   As far as her middle name, Clare (the Irish spelling is without the “i”) is a county in Ireland that we visited during our trip.\u00a0\u00a0 We stayed in Doolin one night, right outside of the Cliffs of Moher in county Clare. Fiona means “fair, white” and Clare means “bright, clear.”\u00a0 We plan on calling her “Fi” for short.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42 The book has a neat message too- Fiona is trying to get to her grandmother’s in a hurry and other characters keep interrupting her trip to ask her for help.\u00a0 Fiona always helps them, despite her own plans.\u00a0 In the end\u00a0Fiona needs their help, and they all come to her rescue.\u00a0 A lesson about being good to others and Karma? Yes please!\u00a0 We named her in Ireland and haven’t thought twice about it! Welcome to the world, Fiona Clare!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-journey-to-parenthood"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hopemeetsjoy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_0479.jpg?fit=4032%2C3024&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8oEBX-l1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopemeetsjoy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopemeetsjoy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopemeetsjoy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopemeetsjoy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopemeetsjoy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1303"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hopemeetsjoy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1350,"href":"https:\/\/hopemeetsjoy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions\/1350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopemeetsjoy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopemeetsjoy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopemeetsjoy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopemeetsjoy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}