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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: October 2011

She’s so good. She’s always so good. And when another kid cries she always looks so concerned and comes over to help. She’s the perfect child. One of the girls at VillaKids when I picked up Ellie today.  Oh how Ellie loves her babies—every time we pull into the parking lot she shouts “BABIES!!!  PLAY!!!” […]

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heather ross dress

I love this horse print from Heather Ross and got 3/4 of a yard to make Ellie another dress from the border print dress tutorial for next summer. I haven’t been good about photos of the bee blocks I’ve made for the Front Range Modern Quilt Guild bee, but here’s my latest.  Lynn requested pinks, […]

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that’s not it, i like it, uh huh uh huh. Will singing That’s The Way I Like It over and over again today.  (Closely related to his singing last week of “sweet home aroma,” which, sadly, has been replaced by the correct Sweet Home Alabama lyrics.)

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Will is off on his first big boy playdate.

He’s off to the zoo with a friend.  It took so much courage to allow this!  I’m imagining every major calamity, from Will’s abduction to his not saying ‘thank you.’  This ‘letting go’ that is required in greater and greater degrees just might kill me.

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a little privacy please

When Ellie has to pee, she’s happy to do it while you wait.  But you know she needs a little more time in there when she sits down on the potty, looks at you, and says in a happy sing-song voice “bye.  bye.”  which is your signal to leave and wait outside the door until […]

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You dirty hobe.

Will watched The Cat in the Hat this week, in which there is a reference to a ‘dirty hoe’ (there being an actual dirty hoe in the scene).  But Will took to the saying as his new catchphrase and we are working VERY hard to make sure ‘dirty hobe’ isn’t the latest thing in Mrs […]

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