Lucy Boyd

Lucy was born April 25, 2006, at 8:49 am, weighing 7 pounds 14 ounces. Both she and her mama Ann are doing great!

Lucia / Lucy

The name Lucia (which we pronounce in the Italian fashion, “loo-CHEE-ah”) comes from lux, the Latin word meaning “light.” One of Ann’s earliest prayers for this baby has been: “May Christ give you light and life, and may you receive the love we have for you.” Lucia is also the name of a Christian saint, whose remained faithful to Jesus despite great trials. She was from Sicily, so the connection with Ann’s Sicilian heritage is strong. Saint Lucy’s feast day is known in Scandinavia as Santa Lucia Day and is a highlight of the Scandinavian year — and so this connects Lucy with Jon’s Swedish heritage, too.

(There are other cultural resonances to the name, too, many of which we think are pretty cool.)

Martha

Her middle name, Martha, was the name of Lucy’s recently deceased great-grandmother, Martha Borzykowski. Lucy was conceived less than a month before Martha’s passing, so we never had a chance to tell Martha our happy news — but she would have been delighted to meet and hold her second great-granddaugher. And the fact that they briefly overlapped in this world makes their shared name all the more special. We miss Grandma Martha very much.

Martha is a Hebrew name found in the New Testament, the name of one of Jesus’ disciples, the sister of Mary and Lazarus. Because of the accounts related about her (in Luke 10 and John 11-12) and perhaps because of the name’s derivation (similar to the Hebrew Mrs.), Martha has become known as the patron saint of cooks, servants, homemakers — indeed, all the hospitable. We don’t know yet whether hospitality might be one of Lucy’s gifts, but it certainly was one of Grandma Martha’s.

Would you like to say “hi” to Lucy? Please leave her a greeting in her very own Guest Book here at LucyBoyd.com.