Friday Favorites: February week 3

 Hello!

This has been quite the week, but there is so much to be grateful for. It’s going to get a bit deep and frankly I need to not process a lot for a little while and just focus on gratitude so that I can deal with the grief in my own way and time.

Thank you to Andrea from Momfessionals and Erika from A Little Bit of Everything for hosting this sweet link party every Friday! 💛 This has really helped me on my gratitude goal and also on taking pictures of all these wonderful things to remember and love!

Here are my favorites from this week (in timeline order because that is how I can process right now):

1. Guerrera documentary

 Some of the ladies that I trained with for our respective combat deployments participated in a documentary that came out last Saturday. They did an amazing job and I can speak from experience that this was a very accurate depiction for us. (Most of the ladies interviewing were from CST 5. I trained with them but ended up deploying with CST 7.) I love them so much and am so grateful that they chose to tell our story.  

2. Hospital staff

I am so grateful to the hospital staff where I am right now as well as my wonderful family and my bestie Lisa who might as well be family. My parents helped Grant keep everything normal for the kids and Lisa stayed with me through the scary parts of this week so that I wouldn’t be alone. I love her so much and am so grateful to have such a wonderful friend in my life!!!

 I ended up having an ectopic pregnancy that formed in my abdomen and then ruptured creating a significant amount of internal bleeding. This led to an emergency surgery and several days in the hospital to recover. I’m still here as I type this but hopefully my numbers pop back up and I can go home today instead of back into the OR. 

Everyone has been amazing and I’m also grateful for all the prayers from my church, friends at the Y, just everyone. I’m humbled and feel all of the love! 

I nearly didn’t go in because I felt like I was just being weak and so as a side note if anyone ever has severe abdominal pain and then gets a positive pregnancy test, please go to the ER to get it checked out! Take care of yourself and get the care you need!!! 💛

3. Grandparents day

I was not in a happy place Monday and so my parents took the boys for the federal holiday and they had the best time. I’m so grateful for their support and making life as stress-free as possible for me and my kids.

4. Currito

I was allowed to eat last night after 36 hours and my parents were so sweet and dropped off a rice bowl and smoothie from Currito. It turns out my mom told the team there what happened and they gave them my dinner with a note on the top saying “get well soon”. Seriously 10/10 for this place because that nearly made me cry happy tears at the community around here!! If anyone is looking for a healthy fast-food place, Currito is my favorite!!! 🥰

That’s all for today! Prayers for our family are much appreciated and welcome. I’ll physically recover and I will process this over time, but it can take a toll on young children when mom has to be away, and so I’m focusing on that now.

I’m also proud of myself in trying to take this space to help me in gratitude and “looking for the helpers”. I can’t change the bad and I will grieve, but I can help myself in remembering that there is always good around us too.

Wishing you love and light and faith.

💛 Jess