Another One?

If I could live in the world that my sleeping mind creates I would be one happy person. Minus of course the dreams where I am driving too fast or I am in a plane that suddenly enters in to a spin, but I digress. My favorite dreams by far are the ones where I am a momma, and last nights was no exception. At first I gave it no creedence other than my mind being in baby mode...until that is I told Jake about it...

On our bed there is a baby girl. She has dark hair, not an overabundence, but that new born hair that is soft and lays close to the crown.

She is still wearing her hospital t-shirt.

You know the kind. The ones with the long sleeves and the mittens.

I hear Jacob in the bathroom. I look at the baby and know she is mine but I don't know her name. I can't remember my own baby's name. Gently I wrap her in a blanket and snuggle her close. I take her to the bathroom where Jacob is shaving.

"I can't remember the baby's name" I tell him.

"We named her Melissa" He tells me without missing a beat.

"Melissa? I didn't want to name her Melissa, I wanted to call her Elizabeth"

He just shrugs.

I slowly decend the steps with my daughter and see my mother in law

clipping coupons on the couch. My father in law watching television from the love seat.

"Can you take her?" I ask

"Sure" she says, putting down the sissors and the paper.

"Her daddy and I need to take a shower"

End of the dream.

Innocuous right? Everyone dreams of "normal" life...though I don't know if forgetting your childs name is normal, but hey it was my dream. Then I tell Jacob about it. Now we at times have talked about names but when it came too a girls name it was always agreed. She would be called Elizabeth Suzanne (the reverse basically of my names). We have never deviated, or so I thought. When I told him her name he says "are you kidding me?" Uhm nope...the dream was vivid and felt real. He says to me "I have always thought if we had a baby that perhaps you would change your mind and we could call her Melissa"