{"id":11348,"date":"2011-02-16T23:53:42","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T04:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/?p=11348"},"modified":"2018-11-10T22:39:52","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T03:39:52","slug":"knight-alastair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/16\/knight-alastair\/","title":{"rendered":"Knight Alastair"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Names are funny.\u00c2\u00a0 From generation to generation,\u00c2\u00a0they wax and wane in popularity.\u00c2\u00a0 When we named our son Ryan, I knew of only one other child by that name;\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0my sorority sister’s son\u00c2\u00a0was 6 years old on the other side of the country.\u00c2\u00a0 Now,\u00c2\u00a0“Ryan” \u00c2\u00a0is as common as John used to be.\u00c2\u00a0 Alastair, however, seems never to have achieved a high ranking in the past 100 years.<\/p>\n

Which is why my daughter and\u00c2\u00a0her husband, Harvey,\u00c2\u00a0chose it.\u00c2\u00a0 Every name that they considered was first checked against a list of the 100 most popular names in the past 100 years.\u00c2\u00a0 “Alastair” was clearly absent from each.\u00c2\u00a0 So that’s the name they chose.<\/p>\n

Shortly after my grandson’s birth,\u00c2\u00a0a friend of Harvey’s commented, “With a name like Alastair, it’s knighthood or failure.”\u00c2\u00a0Thus, the choice of this embroidery design for his Valentine’s Day shirt.<\/p>\n

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After choosing the knight from Planet Applique www.planetapplique.com<\/a> , I decided on the text, “Soon I’ll be your knight in shining armor.”\u00c2\u00a0 But a senior moment denied me access to the proper spelling and I typed in “amor.”\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

My Latin\u00c2\u00a0education kicked in\u00c2\u00a0immediately and I knew this was a much better punch line.\u00c2\u00a0 The heart in “amor” clinched it for me.<\/p>\n

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It looks like Alastair has slain a hairy “dragon.” But it is only our dog Hannah enjoying the Florida winter sunshine.<\/p><\/div>\n

When he first saw the shirt, Harvey thought “amor” was missing an e<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0He’s an Ivy Leage graduate so I needed to reassure myself that I had not made a serious error.\u00c2\u00a0 I did some quick research and found this definition\u00c2\u00a0in Wikipedia: “amor: <\/em>\u00c2\u00a0meaning love in many languages.”\u00c2\u00a0 Whew!\u00c2\u00a0 I got it right.<\/p>\n

Alastair may never be knighted by the Queen of England.\u00c2\u00a0 Or maybe he will.\u00c2\u00a0 At any rate,\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0I’m sure he won’t be a failure–certainly not in the eyes of his adoring Nana.<\/p>\n

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