A Porch of My Own

A Porch of My Own

Monday, January 19, 2015

Where the Women are Strong and the Men are Good Looking



If you piled up all the hardship this group of women has faced, it would make a mountain. We've lost husbands, moms, dads, babies, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, grandmothers, grandfathers, and friends. We've dealt with Alzheimer's, physical and mental abuse, war, lost jobs, lost homes, bad marriages, divorce, broken hearts, and broken bodies. We've started over more times than we care to admit.

If Bixby could see down the road for us all with those binoculars he's looking through, I shudder to think what he might see ahead for us.

We've survived it all by standing side by side, just as we are in the photo. One leaning on the other. When we need help, all we have to do is place a call to one and all coming running. As they did this weekend, and the past weeks, for me and my kids. Along with a whole group of others that didn't make the photo and a group of men that love strong women.

This group is strong. Rickie knew he could count on them to get us down the road. He was right. He knew a bunch of badasses when he saw them.






6 comments:

  1. I gotta love me some STRONG BADASS TEXAS women.

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    1. JB, in our family we believe attitude is half the battle and so we tell ourselves we can make it, each supporting the other. I think that's the whole key. I am so lucky to have this family and I have never appreciated them more than I do now.

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  2. Nothing is more awesome than a strong family, and a family that has more than just blood in common.

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    1. True words, Judith. Half the battle is believing in being strong. If you tell yourself enough times you are, it helps make you strong. I know people that say they will never make it but you can't say that. You just have to lean on family and friends until you can make it. I have had someone tell me I will never make it on my own here, but them's fighting words to me. Rickie believed in strong women and he lives within me. He didn't marry a quitter.

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  3. Well looks to me like you have been proving to people for quiet some time now that you are fully capable of living where you live. My Dad worked 150 miles from home when we were kids. He would leave town Monday morning and be back Friday night. Mom took care of the house and everything by herself during the week. My sister and learned from her. After Dad passed someone said to her "you need to go live with your kids". Mom told them "why Freck (my dad) had me in training for years for the day when he wouldn't be here." You are a shining example of a strong woman.

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