How to name a blog

Why have I never started a blog? A primary reason was that I didn't know what to title it. That seems like a very important thing for a blog. This is probably a testimony to my personality, as I have had the same (very difficult to spell) email address, uuchlauk***@email.com, for 9 years, simply because I could not think of a better email address. (It's a Mongolian word - and there's a story there.) I know that Velazquez is also hard to spell, because every fourth piece of mail has it wrong, so having that in the title was out.

If I had been smart, I would have started the blog before I had a baby. That would have been a much more ideal time. Now, with our bundle of joy (and especially when he is not so joyful), I barely have time to do anything without holding him. So my first ideas for a blog were:

Blogging One-Handed (and I have typed this one-handed)
Colicky baby
No Showers for Mommy
The Crying Chronicles

My Mom reminded me that colic won't last forever. She suggested that since Nathan's name means "a gift" I could title it "Mommy's Gift." I was a great idea. Perhaps this is a testimony of my lingering self-centeredness, but I wanted to leave room to blog about me sometimes, and not just Nathan. :-) Actually, I often told myself that Facebook provided all the attention I should get, and who would want to go to an additional site just to read about me? But then I found out that a few family members don't do the Facebook thing, but would like to see pictures of Nathan. So I'll pretend that that is the real reason that I'm now a blogger, and it has nothing to do with finding pleasure in updating the world with more than a one-sentence status line. So then I figured I should have some super creative, funny or intellectual title like:

Soporific (This is one of my favorite words, but I don't want people to fall asleep reading my blog)
Failed to Get a Degree in Oikology (the study of housekeeping)
Foofaraw (frills and fancy finery, or a disturbance over a trifle)

If I ever decide to get really personal here, though, I will probably start to betray pain that I carry from the last few years. Since being married and having a baby, though, life has been so different than that - happy and idyllic. But I have this sense in the back of my mind that it could all end in a moment. Perhaps this is a testimony to my painful losses in the past, but the title also allows for the unexpected joys of being a mother. So I have finally started a blog and called it:

Warning! Unknown Future Ahead

Next thing you know, I'll start Twittering.