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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

I woke up to soft calls from Ellie this morning:  “Mommy.  [pause]  Mommy.  [pause]  Mommy.” While I was getting Will’s waffles ready I heard from the high chair “Mommy.  Mommy.  Bababa” from the girl who was thirsty. I love that she is a talker.  But I am sad that I won’t have the prolonged Momma […]

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innocent crush winner

I don’t have any pictures today (lame) but I forgot to pick an innocent crush charm pack winner this weekend.  It’s #33–my friend Beth!!!  I won’t even have to mail the charm pack, so it’s like I win, too!  😀 My next contest will be fun–I’ve been saving selvedges because they’re too cool to throw […]

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ellie loves books

When Will was a baby I tried so hard to get him to love books, but he just didn’t.  With Ellie, I forgot to try and yet…she adores books.  She loves to go into her room and look through her box of books, and earlier this morning I heard her huffing and puffing her way […]

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poor underappreciated will

I am mom, mom-my, or mom-mom. Nic is da, dad, or dad-dy. Eyes are eyes. Books are dooks, gooks, or mooks. Bottles are babas. Food is numma-numma. Greetings are ‘hi.’ Questions are whassdata or whassdis or dis. Will? Will gets nothing.  It’s been months since she’s called him will-a.  Instead she calls him nothing. I […]

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it’s 5am

And Ellie and I are hanging out on the sofa watching Eat Pray Love and drinking a baba and tea.  Ellie keeps cracking up.  Why are we downstairs at 5am when we normally don’t get until until at least 7:30?  Because I woke up at 4am (I’m pretty sure the milkman woke me up) and […]

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more jane market bags

It was a market bag weekend (using jane market bag pattern)–I made my library bag as well as two others. I find that whenever I repeat a pattern, I end up making more mistakes than the first time.  With the floral bag and my library bag I forgot to do the top stitching down the […]

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