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    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 .

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Monthly Archives: September 2010

I don’t want a baby stister. I want the officers to take the baby away. Will.  Mark your calendars—it took 8 months to hear that stereotypical “I want the baby to go away” line.  And you know what did it?  It’s the age old shit-rolls-downhill.  The older boy whom Will adores that lives next door […]

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half apron

My friend’s birthday party was last weekend, and she had mentioned after seeing my chicken skirt that she’d love an apron in that pattern.  So I knew just what to get her along with the new Bakerella book! I made the pattern up as I went along, and will be posting a tutorial just as […]

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At church we got a (very belated) welcome basket.  In it was a loaf of bread and a bottle of wine.  Will LOVES bread, so it can as no surprise to hear him calling up to me asking if he could have some “church bread.”  (When he heard ‘yes’ he shouted ‘“HURRAY!”)  He then brought […]

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When the rocket ship cracks the moon all the pieces will fall down and then we won’t have a moon anymore. Will, as we drove home and admired the moon.

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I’m a junk food boy. Will. (After my incredulous “WHO said that to you?!”  He insisted “Nobody.  I said it.  When I was 4 years old.”)

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Els picked up a guy for the first time today.  We were getting lunch and a (cute!) guy at the restaurant said “She is the cutest thing I’ve seen all day.” 7 months old and already getting hit on.  Of course, she was wearing a diaper cover with a big flower on the butt.  The […]

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