As an update to my earlier post about the Godmothers coming and working on Julia's room, here are a couple of picture of the beautiful tree that AJ's godmother painted for Julia's room. While my friends were here I was feeling ambitious and we bought some pink and green paint for me to add some birds and leaves to the tree, but who was I kidding? With 3 kids 3 and under, that was never going to happen. So when I was buying some Christmas gifts at Pottery Barn Kids and spotted some stickers of birds and leaves while I was standing in the checkout line, I decided to cheat on the painting and added the stickers to my basket as well. But I love that the tree and flowers are originals and think of Kim every time I walk in the room.
Now that I have a daughter, I think about what I need to do to raise a strong, confident, happy girl. I like surrounding her with the women in my life who are all of these things, so I want her to spend as much time as possible with her grandmothers, her aunts, her aunties (my friends), and our nanny, Linda. I also chose Julia's godmother, my friend Ali, because she is all of these things. Ali lived abroad for many years in Honduras, Colombia and Paraguay, and loves to travel internationally to see the world. She is a teacher who gets kids to love learning like she does. And she is an avid reader. I hope she will infuse her enthusiasm for these things in Julia as well.
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