Workaholic Dad

As I have written about a few months ago, the German pencil pushers had some objections with our choice of name for the little one. Apparently the names we had picked out where to unisex for them and we either had to change it or pick a third first name that was clearly male or female. Forget about using Maria over here, it’s also both male and female. Very confusing.

Anyways, we initially intended to take up the Standesamt’s suggestion to “go ahead and sue us” but not only did it turn out be a real bitch to find a good lawyer that wasn’t a media whore but also there would be a government imposed name until the trial ended. That government imposed name would have been “Unamed Child”, most certainly not an option. We then settled with the folks at the registrars office in leaving the first two names, Mackenzie Skye, alone and tacking on Anne. The Mrs’ middle name.

This morning I called my friend at the Standesamt in Hanau to ask if mom and baby would have to come along  She recognized me immediately, much to my surprise, and told me to show up without the family, papers in hand and she would have me on my way in 5 minutes.

I got to city hall and was amazed at the size of the place. I have never been there before since most government business that has to be completed is done in the city hall of our little village. I made my way to room 213 and was pleasantly surprised that I didn’t have to wait. The Mrs. and I had already filled out all the paperwork at the hospital and now it was only a matter of a few photocopies. As promised the process of making Mackenzie Skye Anne took less than 5 minutes. Once we receive all the paperwork in the mail we can make an appointment with the US Embassy to make our little mudblood a US Citizen too. Before you send me hatemail, I don’t mean mudblood derogatory just a nod to the fact that she is of mixed heritage.