Days 6&7

Wow was yesterday busy!! I kept thinking I needed to get on and write down what I was grateful for, but I just didn't get a minute!

Day 6:
I am grateful that I live in America. It is not always a perfect place and there are things I would like to change, but I am so grateful that this is my home. Living on the border of the most dangerous city in the world (Juarez, Mexico), I hear daily about how many more people have been killed. No one is safe over there. Then there are moments talking to my husband and he had a bad day at work because they were going over combat life saving and he had terrible flashbacks. I can't imagine living in a country where that kind of fighting goes on day in and day out.

Day 7
I am grateful that there are soldiers who have made the choice to fight for our country so that I don't have to. It has really hit me hard in the past couple days how much Travis has gone through. This week is all CLS (Combat life saving) and it is not an easy thing for him to do. After having to use it in real life, the guys who have not deployed and joke around really upset him. Having to stop bleeding on a dummy when he has had to do that to one of his good friends is hard. He has come home from work all week exhausted, eats dinner watches a little tv and goes to bed. While I do everything I can to help him, I have no idea what that feels like. I am grateful that I don't have to. There are some true heroes in this world, and I am lucky enough to be married to one of them.