Miss Poppet

So we have decided not to have Boy Slumber christened because while I am spiritual & Fin is atheist neither of us consider ourselves religious. So we, well I, found out about baby naming ceremonies also known as welcoming ceremonies. And thought ‘we should do that!’.

While I love the idea & fact that we are celebrating having our son in our lives little did I think of the effort involved in organizing it. I have spent hours trawling the interweb looking for templates, ideas, suggestions or anything to do for the ceremony as there is no pre-organised method as with a religious ceremony. A fleeting thought did cross my mind about the easiness of just being christened.

But success! I have come across different ideas- planting of a tree, journal for friends & family to write their own message to Boy Slumber so he can always have it to read, lighting of a candle, poems that family can read, music. Anything we want.

So far I think my favourite poem is from Kahil Gibran. I always loved ‘The Prophet’. I think it adds to why I love his poem on children, ‘Your Children Are Not Your Children’.

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