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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: April 2011

Will’s friends said his show and tell was dumb and so now I have some five year old ass to kick.

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The army of bionicles and its echos of Will’s play chatter in his fake deep bionicle voice (“surrender, you!”) stand on my dainty floral table cloth and remind me once again how grateful I am to Will for bringing all of his boy-ness into my life.

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how Junie B Jones made Will cry

Will and I read the first chapter of Winnie the Pooh on the ipad tonight and it was so much fun that I went looking for other ipad chapter-books-but-still-have-pictures books.  Because I need a break from “The Dancing Bears” (The Berenstein Bears).  I remembered Junie B Jones, and got Junie B Jones and a Little […]

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I need a bunch of dirt colored pants for Eloise, the girl who LOVES to play outside but refuses to learn to walk.

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mushroom mug rug

Our guild is doing a swap today, and the theme was a spring mug rug.  I’m in love with this gnome fabric, and hope my partner is, too! When I lived in England we had about 70 other American families living in our cluster of towns that were all there working for Boeing, too.  We […]

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they sure do love each other

Will and Ellie’s interactions are the highlight of my LIFE.  Here are just a few examples of them being them right now: Will is having a ‘slumber party’ in our room as his Friday night treat.  This is something Nic invented.  He stays in his room Sat-Thurs but gets to sleep in our room on […]

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