My mom was here for a visit over Christmas / New Year’s. She has a beautiful golden retriever named Opie, who did not come for a visit, but of course we talked about Opie with the kids while she was here. Sometime during the last two weeks Cooper decided he no longer wants to be called Cooper. He said “No Cooper. My name is Mopie.”
He was then very excited to show us that his name contained the words “Mop” and “pie.”
He has gone so far as to ask that we change the name on his Mii character (in our Wii system) to Mopie. When we went bowling this week he wanted his name logged into the score keeping program as Mopie. When we called my 82 year old Aunt for Christmas he got on the phone and said “Hi, it’s me, Mopie” (thoroughly confusing the poor woman). And he crossed out the name on his school photo calendar and wrote (in black Sharpie) his new name. (see photo)
Not sure how long this Mopie-thing will last, or if he’ll carry the change to school with him when he goes back Monday, but I guess there are a lot worse things he could call himself.
As we head into a new year, I want to ask you ~ do you have “old names” that you call yourself that you need to get rid of? If you are in the habit of calling yourself names like “unworthy” or “unloved” or you find yourself saying things like “There I go again” when you backslide in a bad habit – you need to know that God does not see you that way! What are you going to call yourself this year?
I’d love to hear your comments. For me, I am going to call myself “Daughter of Thunder.” Okay, so it’s a spin off of John the Apostle’s “Son of Thunder” but no matter, that’s who I am deciding today to be!
Peace.
