'Count Your Blessings' Recap

Counting On "Count Your Blessings"

• Lauren’s mom and “Mom Michelle” come over to Lauren’s house for a visit. Lauren is doing better, but she admits that she went through a season of depression following her October 2018 miscarriage.
• Lana had a miscarriage right after Lauren, who was her first. Michelle miscarried after Josh and then had a stillbirth with Jubilee in 2011. “Having the baby there that you could hold while you’re missing the baby that you can’t hold is so different than being empty crib, no baby to show for the sorrow, the pain, that you’re walking through,” says Michelle. “I just can’t even imagine, Lauren.”
• In October 2018, Josiah and Lauren named their miscarried baby Asa, which means “living one” and “healer.” They created a box of memories, including the shirt that Lauren wore to announce the pregnancy and a letter that she and Josiah wrote to their baby.
• Jessa, whose third child is due on the due date (in early June) that Lauren would have shared, says that the miscarriage has opened her eyes: “There can be a tendency as a pregnant lady to complain, and then to see Lauren, having lost that…it really makes me more aware of the words that I speak. I honestly don’t even know how she does it sometimes. She’s always asking me, ‘How are you feeling?’ and ‘What are you experiencing?’ and ‘How’s the baby?’ It brings tears to your eyes. And I’m just like, ‘I don’t know how you have strength to do this, in the midst of everything you’re going through.’ She just has said, ‘We’re so thankful that God has blessed y’all with another baby.’”
• Jinger and Felicity come back to Arkansas to visit Grandma Duggar, whose health is declining. About two months prior to filming for the episode, she had two strokes within a couple weeks of each other. Jinger meets up with Jim Bob, Michelle, Kendra, and Grandma Duggar at Kendra’s house. “She is moving a little bit slower, but she has pretty much got most of her speech back,” says Jim Bob of his mom.
• Despite her health issues, Grandma has a smile on her face. “Jinger was one that always invested in Grandma Duggar and spent time with her and loved talking to her and taking her places,” says Jim Bob.
• “My mom has always been someone I look up to,” says Jim Bob. “She’s been kind of a role model in business. She’s somebody that loves the Lord and has been someone that always encourages other people, and I love her so much.” Jim Bob, who loves taking pictures, gets a four-generation photo of Grandma, Michelle, Jinger, and Felicity.
• Jessa describes Grandma as a giver. John says she is faithful. “I know I wouldn’t be the man that I am today if it wasn’t for Grandma’s influence [on] me,” says Josiah. Justin admires Grandma’s “true, genuine heart to serve others and just not caring about what other people think about her.”
• Jinger also gets together with Jessa and Kenra and their kids. “If the baby were a girl, then we would have to think about an addition sooner rather than later,” says Jessa.
• While Jinger is in town, the Seewalds have their ultrasound. She goes along, and Jana and Anna also join them.
• On the second day of their Finnish honeymoon, John and Abbie take an overnight train ride to a town on the arctic circle. “I’ve found that in Europe, it seems that most things are a bit more cozy than they are here in the U.S.,” says John. Later, they visit a glass blowing studio. Abbie makes a bowl, and John makes a vase. “I think that blowing glass could become a romantic activity,” says John.
• “It was fun to have a souvenir to take home that you actually made, that you can use when you get home,” says Abbie. “Until our children break them.”
• The newlyweds spend a night at the Snow Hotel, made completely out of snow and ice (except for the mattress). It is rebuilt every year and is only open for three months before it melts. There is a heated “locker room” with beds. “Nice warm place for the losers who can’t survive in the snow hotel,” the staff member tells them, laughing.
• “Being in 20-degree weather, it’s not an excuse, it’s a necessity to cuddle,” says John. The Duggars make it through the night in the show hotel! The next day, they go on a snowmobiling excursion with Lapland Safaris. During their adventure, another snowmobiler runs into a tree, and they have to follow their guide over to the scene of the accident to make sure everything is okay. Thankfully, the first responders are already there, but John and Abbie were told that the victim likely sustained a spinal injury. “I think there’s always that chance that any day, anywhere, any time, we could be called upon to assist in an emergency situation,” says John. He is a first responder, and Abbie is a nurse.
• “I was a little uneasy after I got on my snowmobile,” says Abbie. “I went a little bit slower and was a little more cautious after seeing what had happened to the lady who ran into the tree.”

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