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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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Yearly Archives: 2010

Thursday, September 30, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized

Will loves to play the abracadabra game with Ellie and his blankie.  Ellie loves to play ANY game with Will.

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Thursday, September 30, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized

Will loves to play the abracadabra game with Ellie and his blankie.  Ellie loves to play ANY game with Will.

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sewing more pajama pants

Thursday, September 30, 2010 Posted in clothing, kids

I might have an addiction to sewing these fast pajama pants!  I already know the next two pairs I’m going to make him, which is stupid because last week he fell in love with fleece footie pajamas.  Last night I would have gotten these done even faster than 10 minutes, but I forgot about the […]

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Thursday, September 30, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized

woot!  this tumblr now (sort of) accepts comments!  Just use the little email icon to leave a note.  🙂  Thanks Brian!

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Thursday, September 30, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized

I don’t know when we’d make that happen. We’re a cross between really busy and really lazy. Nic.

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damn pottery barn catalog

Thursday, September 30, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized

Pottery Barn catalogs can be fun when you’re in the right frame of mind.  (The ‘I’m looking for cool color combos’ kind of frame of mind.)  But if you’re not fully Shields Up and you happen to open one unprepared, you’re in for a world of ‘why doesn’t MY house look like that?!” pain. Will […]

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