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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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This is why children shouldn’t have queen sized beds (that they abandon for their parents’ queen sized beds). Bad bed etiquette. I feel sorry for his future wife.

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This is why children shouldn’t have queen sized beds (that they abandon for their parents’ queen sized beds). Bad bed etiquette. I feel sorry for his future wife.

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You’re making me serious. I’m going to tell the police. Will, angrily as he stomped off to put on his pajamas as instructed.

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I don’t want a baby stister. I want the officers to take the baby away. Will.  Mark your calendars—it took 8 months to hear that stereotypical “I want the baby to go away” line.  And you know what did it?  It’s the age old shit-rolls-downhill.  The older boy whom Will adores that lives next door […]

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At church we got a (very belated) welcome basket.  In it was a loaf of bread and a bottle of wine.  Will LOVES bread, so it can as no surprise to hear him calling up to me asking if he could have some “church bread.”  (When he heard ‘yes’ he shouted ‘“HURRAY!”)  He then brought […]

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When the rocket ship cracks the moon all the pieces will fall down and then we won’t have a moon anymore. Will, as we drove home and admired the moon.

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