Women's History Month

I was cleaning out a part of our home that had become a bit of a "catch-all" room. If we didn't know what to do with something we sent it out to this storage type room until it was needed, relegated to the garage or thrown out. I intend to put the room to use as my craft room so I spent some time digging throw the contents of this area. Some things went straight to the trash, some were put in bags for the thrift shop, some finally made their way out to the garage and some forgotten treasures were found. In a filing cabinet I found one of those treasures. It was a binder full of recipes. Some I had clipped out of magazines, some were handouts from various classes. Nestled in the binder were several pages from one of those little mimeographed cookbooks popular a few decades ago.
The recipes themselves were less then remarkable. What quickly brought forth a burst of memories were the titles of the recipes.... Dorothy Fenwick's Five Minute Fudge, Midge Eck's Zucchini Cake, Cecil Murdock's Chocolate Eclairs and Clo Weekes' German Lasagna. As I thumbed through I found Virginia Bird's German Pancakes, Arlene Hannah's Beef Sukiyaki and Florance Brewer's Cocoa Apple Cake.Thelma Perdue's (my Aunt Thelma) Delicious Salad and Babetta Tuckett's (my brother in law's grandma) Fruit Salad were almost identical in ingredients but both were given equal space in the little cookbook that had been printed on pastel pages of yellow and green.
There was a recipe for the Henrietta Peterson's Candy Fudge and the Richmond Family's recipe for Chocolate Walnut Bars. Mabel Bailey's Roquefort and Cottage Cheese Dip reminded me of fun times spent in her home. And Myrtle Glasscock's Banana Fruit Loaf brought back thoughts of this sweet woman.
So many warm memories and each recipe reminded me of the many, many women who have touched my life for good. March is Women's History month. I know the month is actually supposed to be about those women whose biographies grace my library shelf. But on the shelves of my mind I am celebrating those women who touched my life over the past half century plus (oooh, that sounds old!). Some have passed into the next life, some still share their wisdom with me today. Many are my peers and a good many are younger then me, yet wiser, more spiritual, more giving and I learn from their examples. I would list each of your names but the list would be much too long. You are the members of my family, the friends of my youth who are still dear today, the friends I have made throughout my marriage, the women I work with who make my job meaningful ... You see, too long a list but each important in her own way and who I value far more than rubies (Proverbs 31:10). I hope each knows how much I appreciate her.
How grateful I am to each of the women who have come into my life and taught me. I am a better person for having known the women in my life. Happy Women's History month to all these heroines!

"The Lord especially loves righteous women—women who are not only faithful but filled with faith, women who are optimistic and cheerful because they know who they are and where they are going, women who are striving to live and serve as women of God." - M. Russell Ballard