<p>I do wish my mom would have given me her last name instead of my dad’s (my dad’s is one of the most common in the US and my mom’s…well, we’ve never met or heard of anyone outside our family with her maiden name). </p>
<p>However, she wanted my first name more, and with her last name, my first letter of my first name would be K, my first letter of my last name would be K, and the last letter would be K. The way I say my name, it would sound like KKK if said quickly and she thought I wouldn’t forgive her for that. </p>
<p>I see her point. </p>
<p>Va, I think many people do juggle the numbers when they start a family. Maybe that’s a recent development. I know that I was a whoops, but they made the calculated decision to not have any more after me because they knew they couldn’t afford it. While I regret not having siblings (my half sister has never really been a part of my life), I do understand why they did what they did and I appreciate it. Things were tight enough for us and I’m forever grateful that they had that foresight. As selfish as it sounds, being an only let me do things that I probably wouldn’t have been otherwise able to do (dance, sports, etc) and would have negatively impacted my life (I am a firm believer that sports and dance helped shape me in to the person I am today and wouldn’t trade those experiences for the world).</p>