Sentimental Names

Hello everyone- this post is full of the feels, please bare with me.

My husband and I are a blended family- he is 10 years older than me and our family consists of 6 children. Four from his previous marriage, one from my previous life and one we have together. We have it evenly split- 3 boys and 3 girls. Our oldest is 23 and youngest just turned 2. We are lucky to have 1 daughter in law, 1 grandson 1 year old) and one soon to be daughter in law.

My husband and I have been talking since January about having another baby and have been going back and forth about the topic due to the “issues” I will inevitably face. (My last pregnancy was very difficult) Hubby put the choice in my hands since it would be my body that did the heaviest lifting so to speak- - I felt like I had chosen to try and conceive our little tiebreaker and then the unthinkable happened. Our 2nd son, married and father of one- 22 years d, suddenly and unexpectedly died in a motorcycle accident.

It has been just over a month since we lost our young man- and hubby and I are trying to again approach the topic of baby number 7. We feel like we’re going to go ahead and try for our tiebreaker baby-

We truly want to name this baby something that is an ode to their big brother but are struggling somewhat. We will not be finding out the gender and are trying to come up with possibilities for this little babe.

Our sons name was Julien (also our grandsons name). We would like to incorporate it somehow for both genders- we kind of like Jewel for a girls middle name. We also prefer double barreled middle names for boys. Other than that- we have no idea what to do. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you so much for reading this far- please send your suggestions our way.