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Posted by taneya on August 15, 2007 under Kalonji | 
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Happy Birthday To You!
Happy Birthday To You!
Happy Birthday Dear Kalonji!
Happy Birthday To You!
Today is my husband’s birthday and he’s not even here so we can celebrate 
He’s down in Florida playing soldier for a week (He’s in the Air National Guard reserves). I love you Kalonji and Happy Birthday! See you when you get back home!
Posted by taneya on August 14, 2007 under Family, General Ramblings | Read the First Comment
“If Any Letter Defines Modern American Name Style, K Is It” – this is the headline of a blog post I just read about baby naming trends and how K is becoming extremely popular as the first letter of choice in baby names. Nancy writes a brief summary of a New York Times article by David Brooks on naming conventions. I found this interesting because we have a K phenomenon going on in our family. It seems Mr. Brooks is stating that our choices are shaped by the social networks around us. I haven’t read the full Brooks article yet, but I thought this would make a good blog post about our names.
We have a hard “K” sound going on in our family and when Kalonji and I married and first started considering names for any children we’d have together, the names we chose all fit the pattern, including the name we ended up using “Kaleya” 
Between first and/or middle names, combined with the hard K sound in the last name McClellan, all the kids names fit. Kamau, Miles-Khalil, Jihad Khrmon, Qacheyta and Kaleya. Then there’s me with my hyphenated last name of Koonce-McClellan. Kalonji’s mom’s nickname starts with a K. Kalonji’s brother’s name starts with a K, and even his kids have either first or middle names that start with K. Kalonji’s father’s first name ends with K. I love it!
Posted by taneya on August 1, 2007 under Cross-Stitch, Trips | Be the First to Comment
Since my last post, we have come back from out of town and left and come back again
The family reunion was wonderful! It was a lot of fun and I got to connect with more members of my stepmother’s family. It also spawned more work to do on her family tree! I’ve been blogging about that over on my Genealogy Blog.
Then, this past weekend, we went to take three of the boys back home. We have the youngest one still for the next 10 days or so. Then, Kalonji is being sent off to Florida to play soldier (he’s in the reserves) for 5 days. Then, after he gets back, we’ll celebrate his birthday (b/c he’ll be in the field during his birthday).
In stitching news – I continue to stitch! I don’t think I’ve done enough to warrant a new picture, but I am getting my time in.