Needles and a Pen » Knitting, Sewing, and Nursing School

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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!

    I great big puffy heart *love* comments, so please let me know you visited! I try to always reply!

Hello, it’s me again.

I logged on to wordpress today to start yet another blog.  As a pre-nursing student and CNA I am constantly pestering the internet with questions I hope it can answer: “can I test out of bio 111?” “what are the odds of ACTUALLY getting hired into my dream job?” “if I work nights do I REALLY need childcare or can I just take a nap while Ellie watches The Little Mermaid if I’m only working part time?” and I am ever so grateful to the People of the Internet for answering these questions for me.  I feel like I’m getting to the part of my journey where I might have helpful answers for people just starting out and it sparked in me a desire to start my own “RN or bust” blog.  But then it occurred to me that I already have half a dozen blog urls already and I should stop leaving abandoned blogs like a trail of carnage in my internet wake.  So I’m taking back this one (which, if I remember correctly, is at this point a collection of three previous blogs/tumblr accounts).

Where I’m at today: I’m finishing up my nursing pre-reqs NEXT MONTH (!!!!) and will be starting nursing school in the fall.  Unless something goes horribly wrong in the next month, I will have 4.0ed my nursing prereqs while working as a photographer, homeschooling my youngest, and staying married (IT CAN BE DONE, MOMMAS!  YOU CAN DO IT!).   I also have other exciting news but I won’t share it until I actually maybe have worked there for a year or seven because at this point I’m still scared I’m going to get a “ha ha ha–never mind–we don’t want YOU” phone call.

So that’s me.  And my plan for the blog going forward.  So on the off chance that you’re one of three people that read this blog when it was active and that you still have me in your feed, that’s what will be happening around here!