How I Named My Blog + A Bonus Fun Fact
This isn’t a very exciting, original, or creative story but I’ve had a few people wonder why my blog is named A + Life so I thought I’d take a post to share with y’all how I came up with it! (If you haven’t figured it out on your own already!)
Originally, my web address was spenafamily.blogspot.com. When I realized that I actually wanted to try and grow my blog and take my hobby a little more seriously I knew that I needed a more official website domain and a blog name that stretched across all of my social media, so that all my lovely followers could find me easily!
Enter the idea for A + Life. Essentially, it’s all I write about. The A is for Abigail, plus, our life. Which is the majority of what you’ll find here.
It is kind of a funny pun now that I’m a homeschool mama and I sure hope for only A+’s 😉
I’ve joked with Jim that we can only name our future babies with A names so that my blog name stays relevant. I’ve also joked that if we have a little Finn, the poor guy would be adding a F grade to our family. HA!
And that’s it!
Now, for one last fun fact for y’all, I thought I’d explain how to properly pronounce our last name. Most people who read it pronounce it speh-nuh, but it is actually pronounced spee-nuh! It derives from Spinavak in the Czech Republic, but was shortened when they immigrated to America. Spena stands for dirt and vak means man, so we are a bunch of dirt men. Or farmers. Or in need of a bath 😉
And now you know! A + Life is for Abigail + Life and Spena is pronounced Spee-nuh.
Oh good!! I've been pronouncing your name correctly!!!!
haha to the F grade. I definitely thought it was A+ as in grades, not for Abigail. Der lol.
That's so funny! I love this post! I hope you are having a wonderful time overseas… so jealous of your adventure! 🙂
Well I'm good on your last name, but wasn't sure about the name of your blog! Thanks for sharing! Very cute!
Cute blog name.
Totally been thinking your last name was Speh-nuh so thank you for clarifying! Nobody knows how to pronounce my last name and when I tell the UPS guy at work my last name when we get deliveries, he just stares at me like "huh?" LOL.