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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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Monthly Archives: May 2011

tablecloths and my favorite mugs

Monday, May 2, 2011 Posted in for the home, kitchen

My productivity has slowed to a dreary trickle this week, because I’ve been going to bed at 8pm.  I realized that in my week of doing this I lost 28 hours of sewing/productive time!  On the other hand, I gained over an entire day of sleep in just a single week, so no wonder I […]

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the new ‘where’s eloise game’

Sunday, May 1, 2011 Posted in Uncategorized

Ellie LOVES to play the ‘where’s Eloise?’  Where she covers her eyes and I make a big show of looking for her, she uncovers her eyes and we all say ‘there she is!”  She LOVES that game and plays it every chance she gets, including dinner.  A fair bit of dinner is usually spent playing […]

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