Sure, why not? Idk if there is an official non religious name for it. You could come up with an alternate title between the four of you if you don't like the religious connotations.
Yeah, I think we might do this. Our older children haven't had anything like this (yet) so we're sort of making it up as we go along haha. I've looked online and apparently some people appoint "guardians" to their children. If we do that and then put them in the will I think it would basically cover everything that we need it to.
The only sort of things I know that are "non religious" kinda are...thr hippie new age kinda spiritual stuff.
Guardians, I think, is more a legal thing in your will for who takes the kids if the parents pass away, but I don't see why that wouldn't work for you, as presumably that's partially what you would want? I could have read that wrong.
Doesn't mean you can't make it what you want it to be for your family.
I'm still in my first trimester so I feel dreadful, lots of sleeping and throwing up haha.
But we're very happy, thank you :)
Yeah I suppose like you say here, make it what we want it to be for our family. I think in hindsight I was being silly saying "God Parents" as that's not what I meant, but I had God Parents growing up despite no one in my family being religious and it didn't seem weird to us at the time.
Awww congrats :) ugh. I've never been pregnant, but known many, many pregnant women. Idk how you all do it. Especially with older kids around. I am in awe.
Nah, I don't think that was silly. It's a pretty well known term for the concept.
My brother and I had a godmother only, I think. She wasn't even good friends with my parents. I think we only met her a handful of times. She was weird. I think mum did it because "that's what you do". We weren't a religious family. We weren't even christened, I got baptised at 17 of my own choice.
My aunt (piss drinking ex uncle's former partner) has an arrangement with a childless couple she's friends with as she wouldn't want her kids going to any of her siblings (to be fair, I don't think any of her siblings want her kids anyway haha). It's not religious, it's a social and legal arrangement.
IIN to ask close friends to be god parents if you aren't religious?
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Sure, why not? Idk if there is an official non religious name for it. You could come up with an alternate title between the four of you if you don't like the religious connotations.
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Yeah, I think we might do this. Our older children haven't had anything like this (yet) so we're sort of making it up as we go along haha. I've looked online and apparently some people appoint "guardians" to their children. If we do that and then put them in the will I think it would basically cover everything that we need it to.
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Ah I didn't realise it was you :)
The only sort of things I know that are "non religious" kinda are...thr hippie new age kinda spiritual stuff.
Guardians, I think, is more a legal thing in your will for who takes the kids if the parents pass away, but I don't see why that wouldn't work for you, as presumably that's partially what you would want? I could have read that wrong.
Doesn't mean you can't make it what you want it to be for your family.
How far along are you? Congrats:)
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I'm still in my first trimester so I feel dreadful, lots of sleeping and throwing up haha.
But we're very happy, thank you :)
Yeah I suppose like you say here, make it what we want it to be for our family. I think in hindsight I was being silly saying "God Parents" as that's not what I meant, but I had God Parents growing up despite no one in my family being religious and it didn't seem weird to us at the time.
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Awww congrats :) ugh. I've never been pregnant, but known many, many pregnant women. Idk how you all do it. Especially with older kids around. I am in awe.
Nah, I don't think that was silly. It's a pretty well known term for the concept.
My brother and I had a godmother only, I think. She wasn't even good friends with my parents. I think we only met her a handful of times. She was weird. I think mum did it because "that's what you do". We weren't a religious family. We weren't even christened, I got baptised at 17 of my own choice.
My aunt (piss drinking ex uncle's former partner) has an arrangement with a childless couple she's friends with as she wouldn't want her kids going to any of her siblings (to be fair, I don't think any of her siblings want her kids anyway haha). It's not religious, it's a social and legal arrangement.