so we named him samantha

We were pretty set in our ways by the time we FINALLY were pregnant. Married 9 years. Both had good careers. Lovely 4 bedroom home. Our master plan was set despite a several year pause in the pregnancy timeline. One of those bedrooms was waiting for the appropriate nursery decorations… Cowgirl. It wouldn’t be too girly, more a tomboy-type room.   Denim, red gingham and lots of western-inspired fringe.   Of course we were going to have a girl!   We were going to name her Samantha!   We were going to call her Sam! In 9 years of marriage, it hadn’t even OCCURRED to us that we might have a boy. Samantha was in the master plan. We were caught completely off-guard at the Ultrasound when Samantha turned out to be a boy. A boy? We needed to come up with a suitable name for a BOY. After 6 months of arguing, the only boy name we could agree on was RYAN.   But in all that arguing we did come up with a name for our second born {in the VERY unlikely situation we ended up with TWO boys}, we liked how Ryan and Reid sounded together. Ryan was born. Two years later we found out that Samantha was not a suitable name for our second child. 6 months later Reid was born. Samantha had one more chance.   A few years later we were pregnant with #3.   I knew it was a boy.   My husband was in denial until he sat next to the Ultrasound screen.   I didn’t even have to ask.   He took one look and reflexively his head fell to his hands. We are out of boy names. The thought of 6 months of arguing over another boy name exhausted my husband. I was thrilled with the thought of a third boy.   I was willing to put in the work.   He gave me these guidelines:

• It can’t be really popular.
• It can’t be too unusual.
• You need to be able to pronounce it when you see it.
• You need to be able to spell it when you hear it.
• It can’t be biblical.
• It needs to start with R.

And so the name OBVIOUSLY had to be Rhett. We agreed without debate. 6 months later Rhett joined Ryan and Reid. And as for Samantha?   Despite our master plan, she just never showed up... For a chance to win a year's supply of cards from Cardstore.com, answer one of the following below:

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