Do you have one of those name's ?
You think to yourself ?
What were my parents thinking?
I don't.
I know what my Mother was thinking.
And my Daddy honored my Mother,
by agreeing with her desire.
I like my name.
But even more I like the reason
I have been blessed with my name.
Here I am Mona Fay:
Here is Mona Fay
and her Mommy Rita Gay,
(yes our name's rhyme)
Sleeping in my mother's heart,
she knew a name that was a part of her
before she ever held me in her arms.
I don't know the moment she decided
I would become a child swaddled with
a name that would be me for eternity,
but
here I was, unlike any other,
but;
like two who Mother loved.
And who I have come to love.
This is my Mother with her two sisters
Ramona, and Sondra Fay.
This is My Aunt Mona
with me as a baby in her lap,
and my cousin Judy a little girl.
This is my Mother
and My Aunt Sondra Fay
when they were Little Girls
This is two Lady's I Love
My name sake
My Aunt Mona
and
My Aunt Sondra Fay.
Now that I am grown;
I Thank you for the precious gift
Of a beautiful name;
I will be a part of you both for eternity;
through the endearing love you
share with my Mother
who looked into my eye's
and
called me
Mona Fay.
And I loved it, I thought I had the greatest most important and most wonderful job in the world. But like most married couples short on cash,,, after my Daughter was old enough to tell me how we would conduct our day at around two and a half years old, I thought she could handle being away from me for eight 'short' hours a day and would welcome the companionship of other toddlers her own age to converse with, and most especially to manage their day. So I conducted THE search 
