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  • Welcome to my blog!

    Hi! I'm Traci. I'm a Registered Nurse who loves quilting, knitting, cross stitch, and the great outdoors. In my pre-scrubs life, I owned Real Photography, and you can still see my old wedding and portrait photography site here .

    I've created a map that shows links to our camping/hiking/general family fun review posts that you can find here. It's pretty much the coolest thing on this site. Thanks, Google!

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Monthly Archives: December 2009

parenting at its finest

I’ve been a little bit spoiled by Will’s delay in speech…it allowed me to delay watching MY speech.  But this morning was the latest in a series of “lets parrot mommy” debacles.  In complaining about itunes to Nic, I may have used the phrase “come on, dipshits.”  Which was immediately echoed by the three year […]

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Old Blog Posts: December 2009

cooking club christmas Tonight was my cooking club’s Christmas party, and spouses and kids were all invited to the big bash.  Will was especially cute tonight! He told Brandon (his three year old buddy) “this is a princess” as he pointed at me.  And then he repeated it as he held onto my leg–”this is […]

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the nightmare 2 | revenge of the mouse

I had a playdate over here with Heather and Taylor today.  We were sitting in the play room and Will had one of his toy bins upside down and was shaking it for some reason.  I look over and there is a shit ton of mouse poop that is now on the floor (which has […]

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