Wished I'd stayed up last night for all the fun. I draw the line at 2 a.m., unless I don't intend to go to bed at all.
jmarie wrote: like Maggie, how old is she?.
jmarie,
Maggie is short for Margaret, who was named for my grandma, who turned out not to be a Margaret at all! How's that for confusing? My dad's mom died when I was 4. She was the first grandparent I lost. Grandpa called her Daisy.
Since I was a big reader growing up, I read
Little Women fairly early. The oldest sister was Meg, short for Margaret. Do you remember near the end when Meg and John have twins? Sister Jo says, "We'll call the boy Demi-John, after his dad, and we'll call the girl Daisy, after her mom." In my mind, Daisy became a nickname for Margaret, and I decided any baby girl I ever had would be named Margaret after my grandma, and would be called Margaret.
Fast forward 14 years to when my grandpa died. Only then, did I see the headstone and figure out that Grandma was truly Daisy. I loved my grandma, but I had already made up my mind.
Maggie turned 13 on New Year's Eve. She was Magpie when she was fairly little, she is Mags to some of her friends, she is Maggie May when I need her to do something, and Margaret Amelia at night when I tell her how much I love her. 13 years old and she is not too old to cuddle and let mom read to her!