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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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Old Blog Posts: May 2009

when will woke up from his nap this afternoon

He came into the office, stood next to me, patting my arm and said, “Hello Mommy.  It’s me, Crazy!”

WHERE DOES HE COME UP WITH THIS STUFF?!!!!

“oh, it’s so beautiful!”

“It’s so wonderful” has been replaced by “it’s so beautiful!”

Like the package of cookies I brought home from the store last night that Will found this morning:  “Oh, it’s so beautiful!”  Or the jimmy dean sausage sandwich he pulled from the freezer.

PS–we’re currently experiencing a winter storm.  They predict Peyton to get between 12 and 24 inches by the time it’s all over.  It’s April.

In other crazy news I had a bride call today and she wants me to shoot her wedding tomorrow.  We have a morning wedding that day, so I said okay!  I’ll be showered and dressed, so why not!

i really want to know what goes on in his head

For the last couple of weeks, whenever Will has been displeased with me, he calls me “Donald Mommy Duck.”  As in “stop it, Donald Mommy Duck.”

And I want to know if it means what I think it means!  That Donald is such a butt-hole and I’ve always hated him.  He ruins EVERYTHING and is clueless to other people.  When I’m upsetting Will is he really saying that I’m a mean butt-hole like Donald Duck?  Cause if he is, it hurts a little. :P  (just kidding.  mostly.)

To test my theory I called him Donald Willie Duck and he got very mad at me and said “NO!  You’re a Donald Mommy Duck.”  So I think I’m right.  It’s a PG way of calling me a douche-bag.

god help me

On this day, the fourteenth day of April in the year of Our Lord 2009, William Francis Paul Turchin woke up having discovered the word “why” while sleeping.

It’s going to be a long few years.