When life gives you lemons...

Put on a sour face?

Nah, that wouldn't be good.  Besides, lemons are a basic necessity for some really tasty things: lemonade, lemon squares, anything seafood!, artichokes, pisco sours and, most important of all, making that dull bland water have a little bit of life to it!  So all that being said, why is it that lemons are the butt of all jokes?  Do poor little lemons really have to make life all that...sour?

So we got handed a whole bunch of lemons yesterday afternoon, and I suppose now is the time to decide what we do with them?  Suck on them, one at a time, and allow the sour bitter flavor to bring tears to our eyes?  Or, is it time to make a cookie crust and add some eggs, sugar, and a bit of vanilla to the juice of these glorious lemons...throw the ingredients together, bake 'em up for 20 minutes, and enjoy some delightful lemon bars for breakfast (after all, lemon is a fruit!), lunch, and dinner for a while?!

All that being said, my Dear Husband and I are here in a pickle.  Our dreams that we have created together for the last 4 months have fallen apart, and now we must pick up the pieces and start over again.  My Love might not be a Deputy Sheriff this year, but who knows what may become of him?  Perhaps he will become the next Michelangelo, painting amazing works of art (well, at the very least, putting on the most even coats of paint that one could ask for!).  Or is this a sign that my man is destined to be the strongest, whitest, tallest roofer this side of the country?  Maybe he will even become the next yoga superstar?! 

All of the sudden our world has opened up in front of us, and if we put our heads together (and look to Someone much more wise than we could ever be) perhaps we can create something so much greater than your average lemon bar...Lemon Souffle, here we come!