The Drays, Today

My blog is called "The Drays Today". It is about the everyday things that we do as a family of four. My husband is a police officer, and together we run a home daycare that we call Draycare...because we are just so witty like that crazy. Most of you know that, but my counter on the sidebar shows that in the last week we've had about 2,000 people visit...and many of you may not actually know those things.

A few months back I wrote a compare/contrast blog entry in answer to my cousin Melissa's blog entry. It was simply showing how different we are, but how we are still good friends. Some people say friends are the family you choose...I am very blessed to have family that are friends. In that entry I had commented that though she (Melissa) loves having lots of readers and "secretly wished she had as many readers as MckMama or CF Husband," I was super ok with a small following of close family and friends. I would feel very odd writing for an 'audience' because my blog was started to record the day to day activities of our family for my own amusement/stress relief, and for my side of the family who lives mostly in Michigan.

I also share random things about babywearing, cloth diapering, having a home daycare, trying to eat healthy, breastfeeding, and being on a budget/Financial Peace. If I had tons of people reading, I didn't think I would feel comfortable sharing those things.

However God used my love of writing my thoughts down and taking photos for more than just my own amusement. I do not know what I would have done in the past week without blogging. It was a way to inform many people prayer warriors about what was going on with Baby J without having to think; Who have I talked to? How much info did I remember to share? Plus I was having trouble relaying information without getting too emotional. Obviously more than just a few family and friends have been reading. THANK YOU to everyone who was reading and praying.

Now that Baby J is doing well most of you will not continue to read the rambly thoughts on life I have, because I am neither witty nor interesting enough for a grand audience...but if you do choose to stay, welcome. This is just the Drays, today.

What? You wanted to know what we did today? Oh, of course you did. Well, Draycare was up and running had Mother Hen here today, while I caught up on housework slept 4.5 hours (my mom** is still here and she played with the kids). #1 got back to working out and was very glad to work his muscles after days of sitting in the hospital. Snug developed a nasty cough due to his allergies (he is highly allergic to trees *they are budding like crazy* like his mommy) and went to bed early. Baby J was happy happy all day, and not a lot of crying. I am sure having 3 adults around to meet his every whim helped, but it was nice anyway. He is eating like crazy, and because he is supposed to be having breastmilk along with the PediaSure and my milk supply continues to be inadequate, I am looking into alternatives...more to come on that I am sure.

**THANK YOU to my mom who watched Snug, was a big encouragement, got lots of people praying, and even ran Draycare a few times. I'd love to post a picture of her right here for you to see, but seems how she doesn't like to have her picture taken/featured on our blog or flickr account, I will refrain. She does appear from time to time...but tonight it would probably be a bigger "thank you" not to put one up :O)