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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 .

    I've created a map that shows links to our camping/hiking/general family fun review posts that you can find here. It's pretty much the coolest thing on this site. Thanks, Google!

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Category Archives: moving

settling in

moving

After two weeks in our new house, here’s what we have unpacked: the kitchen the master bathroom Here’s what we’ve accomplished in terms of all the work that needs to be done in the kitchen (spackling, priming, painting the walls, painting the trim, painting the ceiling): painted the built-in so I’d have a place for […]

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my turn to be the lying bastard landlord

One of the things we were very excited about in our move was to get away from our neighbors.  There’s the homeschooling family of 7 across from us whose children are overly fond of dressing up in chamo and playing militia up and down the street, the teenage girl next door who, while an amazing […]

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milestones

Most people think there are three milestones in moving to a new house: 1) The day you sign 2) The day you move in 3) The day the boxes are finally gone There are actually many more milestones.  The day you get pictures hung on the walls, the day you drive home on auto pilot […]

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