Tessa

People have been asking us where we found the name Tessa for our beautiful little girl.

Ever since I've known Linda, she's wanted to name our daughter, if and when we had one, Isabella. I think we just thought about that name too long, because as we got closer to the day, the less appealing it became. It's a pretty name, but we may have just gotten tired of it.

So we needed a new girl's name.

I looked through the Baby Names book we had, and pulled out some names that I liked. I went though a whole Greek Mythology phase, but the Missus firmly vetoed Athena, Persephone, Andromache and Andromeda. Which is probably good, especially since I think one of those names is a boy's name.

In the T's I happened upon "Tessa" which I thought was a beautiful name. The Missus had been reading a book called Mothering Twins, a book by mothers of twins describing their adventures, disasters, etc. One of the children in the book was named Tessa, and the Missus had been thinking to herself what a great name that was.

So it was fate. Or luck. Or something like that.