September 30, 2008

Since we have chosen to be anonymous in this blog; it might be a little rude and insensitive to use real names for family members or friends. We thought that it could be helpful to post the nicknames of the branches and twigs in our family tree.  You can't follow the game without knowing who the players are, right?  Any time we refer to a friend, we'll just be using a first initial.

LilSis has a large, blended, yours, mine, & ours family of 5 kids, so it could get confusing.  We feel very lucky, though, that all the kids refer to each other as brother and sister.  They have never referred to each other as “step brother/sister” or “half brother/sister”.  LilSis and SirHoney worked very hard over the last 17 years to keep this “blended” family very close.

Here is the cast of characters…the names have been changed to protect the innocent, as they used to say on “Dragnet”!

SisMama – BigSis' and LilSis' mother

BDot – BigSis' & LilSis' brother #1

Mrs. BDot – BDots' wife

T – BDots' daughter (Our niece)

BooBoo – BigSis' & LilSis' brother #2

Ashton a/k/a/ Ashy a/k/a Ashy Poo Poo – Big Sis' Flamepoint Siamese Kitty Boy

Gabriel a/k/a Gaby a/k/a Gabriella – Big Sis' solid black rascally Kitty Boy (named for the Angel Gabriel)

SirHoney – LilSis' husband (LilSis calls him Sir when having a work related conversation, mainly just to irritate him, and he's Honey at all other times.)

HayHay – LilSis' & SirHoneys' son (15 years old)

BigT – LilSis' first son (24 years old)

Tom Tom a/k/a Tommy Boy a/k/a Thomas (if he's in trouble) – LilSis' “hell on wheels” Siamese Kitty

SarahGirl – LilSis' & SirHoney's sweet, loving twelve year old Great Dane.  Also know as Sarah Jessica Barker.

Meem (SirHoneys' first daughter (31 years old)

TallGuy- Meems' husband (He's 6'7″; Meem calls him THSGuy, but don't ask what that stands for)

LittleOne – Meems' first born son (At this posting, only one week old. He was nicknamed LittleOne before we found out that he weighed 10 lbs 2 ozs at birth).  We still like the name, even though “little” he is not!

Bo – SirHoneys' second daughter (30 years old)

TessTess – Bo's eight year old Akita mix

AndyBoy – Bo's newest addition to the family, a adopted Bichon Frise

BigGuy – SirHoney's first son (29 years old)

Mrs. BigGuy- BigGuy's wife

LittleGuy #1 – BigGuy's & Mrs. BigGuys' first son (6 years old)

LittleGuy #2 – BigGuy's & Mrs. BigGuys' second son (5 years old)

Zeus – BigGuy & Mrs. BigGuys' latest addition to the family, a four month old Husky/Lab mix

That's the whole crew!  Stay tuned for dramatic episodes featuring these characters!