I was born Christie Dale. I never liked my middle name growing up. You may think I was named after that famous race car drive, I was born in Alabama after all. But no, I was named after my father, my daddy. You see my parents thought I was going to be a boy, or hoped( they already had one girl). If so I would have been named Roger Dale Jenkins Jr ( Praise God I was a girl, sorry daddy). But I was born on December 21st. My parents were all set to take me home on Christmas Eve but i still didn't have a name. My mom really wanted to go home before Christmas and joked to my dad " Well we can't name her Christmas and that's when they came up with Christie. And mom made it home before Christmas and I arrived home in a stocking to start my life.
It's funny my parents always had a time naming their kids. My oldest sister's name is Catrina, although my mom wanted her to be named Sabrina and we call her Tina. You see my mom was out of it after she had her first daughter and my aunt came in and told my mom that they needed a name for the brith certificate. My mom said Sabrina but somehow my aunt heard Catrina ( or maybe she liked Catrina better and made up this whole story). So she went home as Catrina. She was so tiny that my grandmother called her Tiny Tina and it just stuck. We have since dropped the Tiny part but I will always call her Tina even though she announced that she would start going by Catrina in High School. She will always be Tina to me.
Three years after I was named after my daddy ( I will always be the son he never had), another girl ws born into the family and my parents had the task of coming up with yet another girl's name. My mom wanted to name my younger sister ,Misty Dawn, but my dad veteod that idea. He said it sounded like a dang weather report. So they named her Amy after my granny and I think Tina aka Catrina should have been Sabrina came up with Michelle for her middle name.
And that is how my sisters and I got our names. And my dad never did get a Roger Jr....
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