Thanks for all of the great suggestions! You all are right -- she'll have to clarify with or without the e no matter how it is spelled so shouldn't decide based on that. Lots of great suggestions; I'm strongly considering four of these. Thanks again!

That's actually where I was leaning, after my mom whose first name is Elizabeth. You all have been quite helpful! Keep 'um coming!

I'll show to hubby. thanks

Our last name is Guidry. Pronounced: Gid(rhymes with bid) and dree (rhymes with flee) :-) My husband thinks Ann so she won't have to constantly spell it for people/correct people when they leave off the e. I want the Anne (with the e) because of Anne of Green Gables and the rationale Anne gives for needing the -e at the end: "Print out Ann and it looks dreadful, but Anne with an e is quite distinguished" (if I'm recollecting the quote correctly) :-)

I'm having trouble finding a middle name for baby girl (we're expecting!) that goes well with first name "Ann". Any ideas? (Our last name is Guidry (pronounced: Gid (rhymes with bid)-dree(rhyhmes with flee) :-) Also.... My husband likes Ann without an E (Anne) because he thinks she'll have to constantly spell it for people/correct people (on official documentation) and have them add the E. I want the Anne (with the e) because of Anne of Green Gables and the rationale Anne gives for needing the -e at the end: "Print out Ann and it looks dreadful, but Anne with an e is quite distinguished" (if I'm recollecting the quote correctly) :-) Would you spell it Ann or Anne? :-)

I really appreciate all this feedback! Lots of good perspective and wisdom here for me to consider! Thanks to you ALL !

I've been reading these forums for a year or so now and read Meadowlark's thread about "Am I too old to have another baby?" and it emboldened me to post my ponderings / inner debate. I'm 39 years old (I'll be 40 in January). I have one daughter who's nine years old (4th grade). I know I want another child, but the thought of homeschooling another 10 years after my daughter graduates/leaves the nest gives me tremendous pause. When my daughter is 18 and leaving the nest, this (potential/not-yet-conceived) baby will be age 7 ! ! ! I began homeschooling in 2012 and I just don't know if I can do this THAT long!!! (and do it well/properly) I'll be 48 when my daughter leaves home and I just dread not being at home full time (I'm a home body; I love running our farm) and I just don't want to be here alone all day while my husband's at work. I've loved motherhood. I've love the friendship I've grown with my daughter. I love my husband too and we have a great marriage, but he's not home until 6:00 pm everyday! We've both LOVED parenting and having a little person around! I used to have a career (I made roughly $100k/year) before motherhood. I have NO desire to return to it. I did that work for 8 years before we started a family. So, I know what career-hood and mother-hood are both like. I've loved motherhood more than homeschooling to be honest. I find homeschooling HARD work!! I feel called to it, but it's not my favorite thing. I do it because it's our duty. It wears me out NOW at 39. What will I be like at 49 with a 7 year old and, basically, starting over homeschool-wise?? We want another little person in our lives to love and enjoy! Our daughter is such a gift to us and we know another daughter/son will be as well! But the whole homeschooling another extra decade is tripping me up !!! And I know many of you have multiples and homeschool them successfully and I just take off a huge Mexican-sized hat to you as it BLOWS my mind how you do it! I have the one child and I find the five hours/day of 'doing school' to be a challenge!!! It's just not my gift. Also, I just cannot stand the thought of putting a child into the local schools here. That WILL NOT happen. Why haven't I had a child heretofore? We've had my mother (who had Alzheimer's) live with us for the past 7 years, and we both just couldn't take the thought of adding another responsibility to our plates. My mom died this past June, thus I now have two brain cells to rub together to consider this dream finally. And I just fear if I'll have the ENERGY for this potential child! It just scares me that I'll be less than I should be due to age/slowing down. This reads more stressful than I really am. I'm not really stressed out about these thoughts, but I am having them and they are causing me to slow down and THINK this through. I'll be almost 60 when this little one graduates!!! (my husband is 4 months older than me, FWIW) My husband would like another child too, but he understands the reservations as it's such a commitment. (But I keep hearing that chapter title in Mary Pride's book, "Who's afraid of the Big Bad Baby?" echoing.......) Any words of wisdom you can offer me as I ponder all of this?