By request...The meaning of FrogQueen

J. Sewell Perkins (@TheSCICoach on Twitter) asked me what is the meaning behind my user name, which I use EVERYWHERE, and suggested I blog about it.  So here it is!

It began YEARS ago with my father. NO he's not a FrogQueen, but a Frog.  We're French.  

There are a number of competing theories on how the "frog" nickname came to be for us French people:  

Here are six such theories from the web page "Archived French Frog Stories"(granted that there are MANY MANY more): 

(1) Many French people enjoy eating frog legs. 

(2) Clovis, an early Frankish king, adopted frogs as part of his emblem.

(3) France's national emblem, the Fleur de Lys, resembles a frog. 

(4) England's Queen Elizabeth I had a French suitor whom she affectionately called her "little frog."

(5) The lands around Paris were swampy, so the peasants who dwelled there were called "frogs" by the upper classes. 

(6) At one time, French soldiers wore camouflaged uniforms and resembled frogs.

Allaboutfrogs.org: 

http://allaboutfrogs.org/weird/general/frenchfrogs.html

Anyway, my father was a career US. Army heliocopter pilot and in someone's funny, testosterone filled sense of humor, they started giving him frogs of all types.  Stuffed, ceramic, wall hangings etc. As I grew up, I started to admire the frogs as well.  After all, they are terribly cute!

Well in 1991, my son, the only boy in the family, was born.  My father was soooo proud to have a grandSON.  He sent him a beautiful leatherbound edition of  "The Frog Prince" and inscribed "From a frog to a Prince."  I CRIED like a baby myself.  It was sweet, but it could have been post partum hormones as well! LOL

So I figured, since he was a Frog Prince, and I was the mother of the Frog Prince, that made me the Frog Queen.  That and the fact that I own soooooo many stuffed frogs, little statues, plaques etc.

That my friends is the story on how I got my screen/nick name!