Wow, can’t believe I missed my July blog. Where does the time go!?
This article on women in leadership cuts close to home. My blog this month is a bit sentimental and emotional. We learned that my sister-in-law, Karen, who fought breast cancer 5 years ago now has cancer again….this time it’s liver and bone cancer. This is a great lady in the prime of her life! Her youngest children, twin boys, just graduated high school and are attending some great colleges on nearly free rides. Her oldest daughter is getting married in December and her youngest daughter just graduated college and is starting graduate school. This is a mother who has 4 wonderful children we are all very proud of – proud of what they’ve accomplished and who they’ve become. So much to be proud of and excited about and then she learns about having cancer again. What a blow. She is a woman of great faith and she is bound and determined to beat this again and I believe she will! Karen has always shown the quiet kind of leadership I admire most in women. Through all the years I’ve known her she’s always been a strong woman. She’s an elementary teacher by trade. She showed her children the importance of education – she got her master’s degree while still teaching and raising her children. She and her husband have always played an active role in their children’s lives. Not every parent can say that. Their children always come first and their activities always revolve around the lives of their children. They have raised 4 very well adjusted children whose lives have been deeply enriched because of the leadership their mother has shown (Dad too, but this article is about women…sorry Tom).
She is a fighter and her time’s not up yet, she had a lot more to teach us all about leadership as she continues her struggle to beat cancer once again. We love you, Karen!
What about you….what great women do you know who have endured so much and taught you what it means to fight like hell?
This article on women in leadership cuts close to home. My blog this month is a bit sentimental and emotional. We learned that my sister-in-law, Karen, who fought breast cancer 5 years ago now has cancer again….this time it’s liver and bone cancer. This is a great lady in the prime of her life! Her youngest children, twin boys, just graduated high school and are attending some great colleges on nearly free rides. Her oldest daughter is getting married in December and her youngest daughter just graduated college and is starting graduate school. This is a mother who has 4 wonderful children we are all very proud of – proud of what they’ve accomplished and who they’ve become. So much to be proud of and excited about and then she learns about having cancer again. What a blow. She is a woman of great faith and she is bound and determined to beat this again and I believe she will! Karen has always shown the quiet kind of leadership I admire most in women. Through all the years I’ve known her she’s always been a strong woman. She’s an elementary teacher by trade. She showed her children the importance of education – she got her master’s degree while still teaching and raising her children. She and her husband have always played an active role in their children’s lives. Not every parent can say that. Their children always come first and their activities always revolve around the lives of their children. They have raised 4 very well adjusted children whose lives have been deeply enriched because of the leadership their mother has shown (Dad too, but this article is about women…sorry Tom).
She is a fighter and her time’s not up yet, she had a lot more to teach us all about leadership as she continues her struggle to beat cancer once again. We love you, Karen!
What about you….what great women do you know who have endured so much and taught you what it means to fight like hell?