Thirteen Things about YOUR NAME

1. My name means Irish maiden.
2. My name is also a boys name although I have never seen it spelled Kelli for a boy.
3. My mom thought it would be neat and fun to have a different spelling for my name. She was a hippie.
4. I am not a hippie and did not think it was fun and neat to have this different spelling.
5. Because of #4 I spelled all of my children's names the ways that you would find them on the rulers and mugs in a store, Molly, Sadie, Nora and Jonah.
6. Gary used to joke that my full maiden name sounded like a cookie, the Kelli Crombie Cookie.
7. I really like my name and I love when people call me by my name, especially my husband.
8. During two periods of my life people called me Kelli Ann. When I was a little girl they called me Kelli Ann and when I worked for Bread and Circus people called me Kelli Ann too. It just worked out that way and I liked it.
9. One of my coworkers at B&C called me Kelli Hahn with a british accent which evolved to Hahn which people in that particular Newton store would probably still call me if I walked in there today.
10. For a brief period of time in high school I spelled my name Kheli. My friend Mariclaire told me that it looked like the word phlegm and so I stopped.
11.The names Kelli, Gary, Molly and Sadie are why our last two are names Nora and Jonah (no more eee sound)
12. I have been told I look like a Kelli.
13. My father chose my name.

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