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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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a little worried the jig is up

I’m a little worried about Santa and Will this year.  He doesn’t seem to be buying that he visited with Santa earlier this week, but he can’t articulate his concerns/doubts, either.  I’m not sure whether to do some cool magical elf visits and push it, or whether we should play it cool and hope to […]

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“Mom!  I see a reindeer!” Will shouted.  I looked up and saw a giant deer running along our house, just outside our fenceline—about 10 feet from our windows.  He met up in the grassy field just on the other side of the driveway with two others, including one with a huge full set of antlers […]

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When we left for Seattle 11 days ago, I had a baby who crawled but in a limited way.  She’d go a few feet, but that was about it.  When I got home last night, I had a MOBILE baby.  And worse, as we discovered minutes after putting her in her crib for the night…a […]

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No. I want to be in Seattle. Will, being told that we had landed in Colorado Springs.  He misses Seattle very much, and informed me this morning that we need to return in “not too many days.  like two days.   or maybe one day.”  When I told him that Granny wasn’t coming with us to […]

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