FEATHER LIGHT two word challenge

Hobart and Clara Ann were settin' to have a bundle of joy at their house. The Light's already had 13 children. There was Louie, Richie, Maudie, Charlie, Lucy, Laurilou, Ginny Mae, Harry and Harriet, Bobbi Sue, Jimmy Joe, Barnie, and Tia Maria. Clara had named the first three children after her relatives. Hobart had named Charlie and Lucy after his grandparents on his mother's side. Laurilou, Ginny Mae and the twins got their names from a book that Granny was especially fond of, and everyone thought she should get to have a turn at naming a few kids, seeing she had only had one child, Clara Ann's mother, also named Bobbi Sue and now having a namesake herself. Preacher James Joseph Jamison over at the Methodist Church was delighted when they named the eleventh child after him. Hobart and Clara Ann struggled to come up with the last two names, those two being born 10 months apart. Actually Barnie didn't have a name for three weeks and when the doctor finally came up to their place half way up the mountain on his yearly visit through the region, they were quick to grab his name, Bernard and later shortened it to Barnie. It's said that Uncle Lyle had traded a bottle of moonshine for some high falutin' liquor in a real fancy bottle, and Clara Ann saw it once in his cupboard when she was over there helping him with the hog butchering two weeks before she delivered Tia Maria. The midwife declared she never heard of such a name.

Clara Ann announced after Tia Maria was born, she was plumb wore out, and besides she had no more names she could come up with. She was not having any more younguns. The midwife filled her in on some tricks to use for keeping herself without child. But on the day of Tia Maria's first birthday, Clara Ann knew she was going to be a mother again. She resigned herself to another pregnancy.

"What can you do but welcome another one." she had whispered to her mother. And she went about tending to her daily routine throughout the whole time, caring for her brood with love and a sense of duty too. But Clara Ann and Hobart didn't discuss any name for the new child.

"No use to coming up with a boy and a girl name each. You'll just have to think too hard. We'll just wait and see what it'll be." Hobart was heard telling the boys down at the general store.

Clara Ann just plumb couldn't be bothered thinking about another name. "My mind's a complete blank. I'm all used up of naming kids!" she declared.

So time came for Louis and Richie to fetch the midwife. Clara Ann had yelled out early that morning from her bed to go NOW. Well, the baby got there before the midwife Tessie, but at least Tessie got there to help clean up the whole situation.

"What you gonna name this one, Clara Ann?" Tessie said gently, knowing no name had yet been decided on.

"I have no idea," Clara Ann wailed. "It's beyond my mind right now."

Hobart was saying nothing either, him being blank of mind too. And it was said that baby was nameless for over three months, just being called Baby Lamb, or just plain Sweet Thing. Finally Mother Bobbi Sue came over with Uncle Lyle one evening and said the situation was getting desperate, seeing as how the preacher was asking about the christening, and it was going on four months now.

"Alright then" Clara Ann finally let on. "I can't think of one thing to name this child. I'm going out on the porch and the first thing I see, that's gonna be this child's name!

She walked out the dogtrot onto the porch and sat in the old rocker. Just then Blue, their hound, come running round from behing the corn crib with a mouth full of feathers.

"Yep, that's her name," Clara called out. "Feather Light!"