Father’s Name Unknown

Ok, so one of the reasons I had wanted to get married before our newest son was born was because, up until then, EVERYONE in this house has the same last name except me. When our children were born, however, my hubby-type person had to sign paternity papers saying “yes, I’m the daddy, yes you can track my ass down for child support should it ever come down to that”. Because they assume, obviously, that if you’re not married, you’re a deadbeat too.

So each of our children’s birth certificates says “Mother’s Name” and lists my name – not my maiden name – my MARRIED last name… and then of course, father’s name and the kids have HIS last name. Which is of course how we wanted it.

So it was just one of my neurotic moments of many where it really bothered me that a THIRD child would be born with their mother’s name not the *same*. So I put the heat on. Clearly, however, it didn’t work LOL

So then I said well, fine - if you’re not going to marry me, I’ll go have my name changed legally… this will accomplish a few things (not the least of which was to drive bamboo shoots up into the fingernails of hubby’s family hehehehe) and our next child will have the same name as ME. (I really do hate it that our names are different in the hospital – oh that’s baby K… his mom is mom X.)