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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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Will has been very interested in spelling words lately.  We tried to teach him to write cat or dog but it never really took.  And then, about two weeks ago, he asked Nic how to spell ‘love.’  And now he writes it everywhere.  On drawings for me, on drawings he makes for his friends, on […]

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Will: Hey Mom? Where’s Elliecake? Me: She’s in here with me. Will: Oh. I wish she was in here with me. He sure does love his sister. And I love it when he wrangles our nicknames for her into his own versions. (I call her Elsiecake.)

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Will: You don’t have to go to your meeting. Because nobody likes you and everybody thinks your pictures are boring. Me: That hurts my feelings. Will: No–it’s not hurting your feelings. It’s just the truth.

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Our Disneyland guidebook came today and we’ve all been fighting over it.  I love that.  Will’s so excited talking about all the rides he wants to go on that he’s singing Christmas songs—always a clue that he’s incredibly blissed out.

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