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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 .

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Category Archives: family

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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television detox

About once a year I put Will through a week-long television detox program.  Cold turkey.  No tv.  One week. The first day is hell.  Constant “can I watch a show?  please mommy, PLEASE?!” followed by tears.  But that just strengthens my resolve.  Clearly detox is needed. Day two is better.  Yesterday he didn’t cry about […]

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preschool days

The thing I like most about preschool days is that I get a ton of work done. The thing I like least is that if I go to the bathroom and suddenly discover there’s no toilet paper, there’s no three year old to come running to my rescue.

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“i want to bring DIS show and tell”

“Show and tell” is a big deal to Will.  (Scratch that–to ALL preschoolers.)  The first month we were aware of show and tell, Will he wanted to bring his knuffle bunny.  So I sent him with the knuffle bunny and the two stories about knuffle bunny.  A perfectly good show and tell. A toy plus […]

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“old timey organic” or “would you like some eggs with that lead?”

I can’t pinpoint exactly where it started, but I got sucked into the dream of an old fashioned better life.  Animal Vegetable Miracle, The Gentle Art of Domesticity, the constant discovery of the new and terrifying ways that we’re poisoning our children with pesticides and Happy Meals and vaccines and toys from China all fueled […]

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