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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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I woke up to soft calls from Ellie this morning:  “Mommy.  [pause]  Mommy.  [pause]  Mommy.” While I was getting Will’s waffles ready I heard from the high chair “Mommy.  Mommy.  Bababa” from the girl who was thirsty. I love that she is a talker.  But I am sad that I won’t have the prolonged Momma […]

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ellie loves books

When Will was a baby I tried so hard to get him to love books, but he just didn’t.  With Ellie, I forgot to try and yet…she adores books.  She loves to go into her room and look through her box of books, and earlier this morning I heard her huffing and puffing her way […]

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poor underappreciated will

I am mom, mom-my, or mom-mom. Nic is da, dad, or dad-dy. Eyes are eyes. Books are dooks, gooks, or mooks. Bottles are babas. Food is numma-numma. Greetings are ‘hi.’ Questions are whassdata or whassdis or dis. Will? Will gets nothing.  It’s been months since she’s called him will-a.  Instead she calls him nothing. I […]

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it’s 5am

And Ellie and I are hanging out on the sofa watching Eat Pray Love and drinking a baba and tea.  Ellie keeps cracking up.  Why are we downstairs at 5am when we normally don’t get until until at least 7:30?  Because I woke up at 4am (I’m pretty sure the milkman woke me up) and […]

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the good news is that they’ve revised the forecast and we’re NOT getting snow tomorrow and the temps will stay well above freezing.  the bad news is that it seems like the big bad wolf is trying to blow our house down.  I have a feeling both babies will be in our bed by midnight […]

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april

Since it was in the low 70s this morning and will be 19 degree tomorrow, the children have been playing outside.  Though I’m starting to worry they might get blown away as the wind is getting worse and worse!

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