North Florida Nesties
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
You need:
- Your original marriage license or a certified copy - even if you're not changing your name
- Birth certificate or passport
- Social security card or W-2 or pay stub
- Two of the following with your address - deed or mortgage/voter registration card/vehicle registration/utility bill
- Your first born and/or two appendages
Full checklist here.
This shiit is ridiculous, but I had no idea when I went to renew that I needed all of this. Apparently everyone has to do this once per the Department of Homeland Security.
Re: PSA: Renewing DL
Just fingerprints in Duval. I hear Leon requires urine...
Me too
But I can imagine the headache it would have been trying to decide what to do once we had a baby... so I guess I'm glad I changed it in the end.
My sister said this may be the only reason she eventually changed her name...but baby #2 is being born Oct 10th and she still has her maiden name. lol I guess in the end it didn't bother her.
ETA: Both girls have/will have BIL's last name.
This is what we would have done with my maiden as the MN. First Maiden H'sLastName. We'll probably still do that, but I should have just kept mine. Although I am glad to be rid of my middle name, so there's that.
Married is really long, people always misspell it (and my first name, too), and i just really liked the maiden name better.
First, maiden is wayyyy easier to say/spell. lol
Also I feel like I didn't think it through. I just changed it because we were getting married and I thought that's what I was supposed to do. I'm very bitter toward 23yo me for not even considering it as an option.
Probably the biggest thing though is I'm much more feministy than I was three years ago. I feel like by giving up my name I labeled myself as WIFE - which is such a small part of my identity to me and anyone who knows me, but of course the first thing that anyone who doesn't know me sees is my "wifely" name.