Coming from a mom who has two children with the name... oh we'll just say "Peterson" And my last name being "Peulicke" I get a TON of looks and my daughter gets a ton of questions... It creats a Jerry Springer kind of look from people... I go to register her in school or in softball... they write her name down and they ask me my first name and automatically start filling in my last name and I have to correct them... thats when I get that" oh... its a "yo baby's daddy" kind of look... like they expect that my son is going to have a totally different name as well!
Truth is both of my children are from the same father... and I kept my madian name when I was married to him... and when I married my second hisband.. I kept my madian name... till I looked at the school emergency card and saw three last names... madian, daughters and husbands
now we did look a bit Jerry Springer! So I finally took his name! And to this day... I get the looks when ever I take Kate to the doctors and have to give our names...
It sucks. Peulicke is a total mouth full and the first husbands name was NOT any better... my madian name was a BREEZE! But for the sake of my children and not having them have to tell a store everytime someone asks if I'm her step-mom.... I wish I could go back and take my first husbands name and keep it! I was just super young and super dumb. not to say that you are in any way... but boy was I.... your smart to be seriously weighing the choice!!!
