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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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Oh Eloise, you’re fired. Will, exasperated with Ellie while they were playing.

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Will is pushing Ellie around in a laundry hamper making train noises while I work up the energy to make dinner…it’s like American Childhood Cliches over here.

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I had no idea how often I say the word ‘jerk’ until I heard Will say it to Nic during game smack-talk the other day.  I was all “where on EARTH did he get that?!” and then I heard myself say it about once an hour and realized.  Oh.  It’s me.  Better jerk than douche […]

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miss smarty pants

Ellie is such a little smarty pants.  I just can’t get over it.  She has so many words—hi, mama, daddy, wiwa, button, sun (although that one she’s only said once, but she pointed right at the setting sun!), done, baba, and nana (nursing).  She’s got signs—all done, more, she shakes her head no and even […]

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she cracks me up!

This morning Ellie was standing at my feet, whining at me.  I picked her up and she looked at me and said “Hi.”  It was hilarious. Also, she’s a genius!  Added to her vocabulary:  “sun” and “button.” 

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We have to get the dragon, Jerk. Will, to Nicolas while playing WOW.  APPARENTLY someone has picked up on game smack talk.  A quick discussion about that not being an appropriate thing to call your father, EVEN IF IT’S A JOKE followed.

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