Daily Prompt: Say Your Name

Write about your first name: Are you named after someone or something? Are there any stories or associations attached to it? If you had the choice, would you rename yourself?

It’s sort of a funny story how I got my name.  I was supposed to be named Susan, but I was on born our Lady of Lourdes, February 11^th and the nurses at the hospital told my mother that Saint Lourdes was a very miraculous saint and she should name me after the saint.  It didn’t take much for my mom to be convinced so I was named Lourdes.  No middle name just Lourdes. 

I was going to change my name to Lori because that’s what I’m called, but my mother made such a big sting about it that I opted on leaving it alone… Not worth the aggravation it would bring her…

One good thing is that my name got famous with the birth of Madona’s baby and she wasn’t even born on Lady of Lourdes…