My Name

After writing this blog for a couple of days I realize that perhaps I should explain my name. Those of you reading this who don’t know me probably think I’m a male. But the truth is I’m a female.  My baptismal name is Eileen. The full name  given to me at the baptismal font is Eileen Johanna Frances.   Apparently there was some dispute between my parents about which one of those three names I would be called. The solution was that I was called by my initials – – EJF – – for the first year of my life. Finally  my oldest brother and Godfather, Joe, came up with the name Jef by mixing up my initials    The name stuck so  I became Jef – with one “f.”   Most commonly I was known as Jeffie.    To this day my family and closest and oldest friends call me by that name.   So do others whom I consider close.

As my children began having children of their own, I would tell them that  no matter what the sex they could call  their baby Jeffie after me.  No one took me up on it 🙂