When I started this blog, I had to think of something to call it, right? I went back and forth trying to think of a catchy name that described my life, in a nutshell. This isn't very easy to do....I mean, how do you sum it all up in just a few words?
Bittersweet
I chose
Bittersweet for a few reasons...1. bittersweet, to me, is a little bit salty and a little bit sweet, i.e. the good and the not so good. There are a lot of bittersweet moments in all our lives. The "bitter" is the tough stuff like 8 foot snow drifts that are covering the pickup truck that you have to drive to work with in the morning. The "sweet" stuff would be that you have a husband who will go outside and "dig out" that pickup for you because you do have to make it to work, no matter how long it takes him or how short on sleep he is. 2. Dictionary definition: A woody vine...having small, round, yellow-orange fruits that open at maturity to expose red seeds (
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/bittersweet). If you've ever seen these branches in the Fall, you'll agree that they're beautiful. I had never seen these until I moved to Nebraska and I love them. I always imagine that I'll buy a bunch of them at a farmer's market around Halloween and that I'll make a gorgeous arrangement with pumpkins and all that other "fancy" fall stuff.
Now, the
Midwest part of the title should speak for itself. Here we are, smack dab in the Midwest and all it's unapologetic glory. Those wide-open plains and unrelenting, bitter winds are what bring me those 8 foot snow drifts.
The
Life part is all the stuff that happens on a day-to-day basis. It's not always fun or glamorous, but I'm probably preaching to the choir there. This is the stuff that actually matters, the stuff that we will remember a week, month or a year from now. This is the good stuff.
