I replied to my friends blog today. She was requesting thoughts on middle names and I decided my response was something I wanted to share on my own blog, so here we go...
My middle name is Maria - pronounced Mariah, as in Mariah Carey, and to be honest I never loved it because of that. However, I was named after my Grandmother, Mary. Why Maria and not Mary? I am still unclear of that. I am not a fan of Mary either, but I do like Maria, pronounced Maria. This is because of the Spanish “Maria del Mar” - which I sometimes consider to keep in my back pocket for a daughter one day. Maria first name, del Mar being the middle name. It means “Mary of the Sea” and although I am not religious by any stretch, I do love the sea and love the way the name sounds as it rolls off the tongue.
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