Today is International Womans day. I celebrate it by thinking of the strong woman in my life, My Mother who helped with the Home Guard during the war protecting our borders, and then went on to being very active in running the family farm with my Dad. My Mother-in-law who ran the farm while looking after a infant while her Husband (FIL) was away at war.. My Daughters.. Eldest who runs a very successful business with her Husband as well as raising two gorgeous girls who were very busy with their school and sports, and now leading their own very successful lives. And our late Daughter who had a very successful career, but her life was cut short with breast cancer. Very lucky to have these women and many others around me..
What a lovely image to celebrate this special day. Like you I think about strong women in our family, especially my granny Lily in Shetland, who was widowed in WW2, leaving her with four small children and a small croft to run, with no pension and no help from the government. Without friends and kindly neighbours, she'd never have been able to do it though.
Love your take on Woman’s Day & very impressed with your tributes to the women in your life. I think us women make the world go round in every way. My mum was a strong woman too & from a very sheltered only childhood went on to joking St John’s Ambulance during the war & then raised four children pretty much on her own as my dad never stopped working & died youngish. I think I’m a strong woman too, I take after my aunt who had a very interesting life.
