Womens History Month - Week 3

So, do you have your project picked out - do you know what you are going to do and how? I can't wait to get my entire project done, 2 special ladies in my life who have truly changed my life...ready to go in my album!!!  Today's post...is all about a few of my friends, and if you have missed week one and week two, links are here!!!  
There are so many women in my past who truly have touched my life in so many capacities...I truly could never list each of them here, but they will go in my album!  My friends, honestly have been those who have taught me more about life than I have taught them.  God knew I needed someone and I am glad they were sent to me and have been a part of my life!  

I will never get used to calling her ANYTHING except Penny Bonato...  The last name has changed...but never the woman!  Penny and I worked together at American Express - me in Utah, her in Colorado.  We spent many hours on the phone until I decided to move there with my first husband!  Penny really helped me when I first moved to Denver, and made me feel like I was just another part of her family!  She helped me, in a sense, to understand how I just did not fit in with my own family - and how I was treated growing up.  Something I really didn't understand, until more recently!  Her birthday is 2 days after mine - she has a love for her family, that made me understand how I was totally NOT that type of person.  She is truly a force to be reckoned with!  

While living in Colorado Springs - right before I moved back home to Utah in 1997, I met and worked with Katie - Kathleen Hardy-Cothern!  Another person who was more like a sister than anything!  I lost touch with her until I found her daughter on Facebook - and talk to her more now, than we have in a very long time!  Katie and her kids were such a part of me and my kids' lives when we both lived there!  I moved back home, and Katie moved back home...  We both lost ex's to death, mine to suicide, hers to an accident.  She taught me that life truly goes on - she taught me how to be "me", and to stick up for myself!  Katie just keeps on keeping on - no matter what life deals her!  

Barb is more than a friend - she is my SFAM - which means sister from another mother! Now that woman knows me more than I know myself, let me tell you!  She has been a part of my life for 18+ years now, called me when I had dreams, listened to me cry and bitch...was there more than anyone EVER has for me.  She is my 2nd husband sister - more like MY sister!  She is not only my friend, but also my confidant, the one I laugh with, cry with, bitch with (and to)...  The one - who has taught me about gifts - how to deal with them - and how to handle them.  
I thank God He sent them to my life...those women in MY history that I wouldn't change for the world.  The good, the bad, the ugly - the not talking to each other for months on end...yet we can pick up where we left off the next time we speak!  I am so glad they have been a part of my life, and thank you to each of you...for being that in which I needed the most!  3 remarkable women in MY history!

Lynda Jeffs

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