Here's to Good Women

As a thank you gift for being a leader at girl's camp I received a plaque a with the following quote:

Here's to Good Women:

May We Know Them,

May We Be Them,

May We Raise Them.

I love it! We all need good women in our lives, at every stage of life. Good women teach us, listen to us, laugh with us, cry with us, and keep us sane.

Those older than us help us by sharing their experience and teaching us that we're not going through anything that hasn't been experienced before by many others.

Those in the same stage of life we are let us know we're not in it alone.

And those younger than us keep us energized and excited about life, and make us feel like the wise ones. (Okay I admit, sometimes they just make us feel old.)

The point is, I could not survive without other women. Nor would I want to try.

All of my women, and young women, friends fill a different need. There are those that I call when I need a shoulder to cry on and those that I call when I need to laugh so hard that I pee my pants. Those that I know will help me carry any load and laugh my way through it. Some of these women have filled each need at some point in my life. Some are far more than friends...they are sisters.

I have an incredible, ever expanding, circle of women around me. They are my lifeline to sanity, or insanity when that's what I need. They let me be who I am and encourage me toward who I want to be.

I hope that in Heaven we can all live on the same big cul de sac, where we can continue to love and share our lives together......and get together to laugh over pie or pazookies!