Hola Hooge!

Juan has taken to calling me by my last name, "Hooge." It's definitely not a Mexican last name, but when it is heard, and not sounded out, it sounds like "Huggy." Like the diapers. Juan insists that he doesn't think of Huggies when he calls me Hooge - well, maybe when I had just arrived a year ago, but not now - he just likes the way it sounds.

I haven't had many nicknames in my life, but I have always enjoyed being called Hooge, or hoogey, or hoog. I think that's because it, more than other types of nicknames, connects me with my whole family.