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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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Ellie and I were watching a little home video snippet on the ipad this morning and when it ended she said “Again!”  Not “more” but the correct “again.”  She’s such a little smarty pants!!!!!!

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Ellie woke up this morning calling Will “Buggy” which I quickly realized was ‘Buddy’ (which I call him all the time). Sadly “Buggy” is rapidly transforming into the correct “Buddy” as the day wears on, but Buggy is the cutest nickname for a big brother ever!

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pomm Means ‘open’ in Ellie-speak.  I just figured this out and had a light-bulb moment!

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Yesterday I picked up Ellie from the neighbor (who watched her while I went to Will’s conference) and when I picked her up she gave me the 10 second rundown without me even asking “fun. kitty. show. eat-eat. play.”  She learned “funny” right after “fun” and it is my favorite of her words.  It’s so […]

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