we had a wonderful christmas at our house with the four of us. leon had his first christmas and he enjoyed the fruit and robot that santa left in his stocking. stella woke up requesting her morning cereal and a cartoon so clearly we knew she forgot that santa had made a stop to our house.  a quick reminder and she jumped into a story of how she saw rudolph the red nosed reindeer fly across the moon last night and that she has REALLY good eye sight.  she is such a creative and passionate child with lots to share with the world.  i am working on trying to be a better mom to her and in doing that i need to listen to her more and see that she is actually teaching me a bunch of things. 

i am making a list of goals for 2011 and she and leon are up there on the top.  i want to focus more on both of them and i am really excited to see what this next year brings with my family and our relationships.  today we took the televisions out of the house so i will have more time to reflect and not waste time watching countless hours of crap.  i want to take on more personal projects and that excites me. i thought this post deserved some of stella's art work. she loves drawing pictures of people and most of the time that includes putting a big smile on someones face.

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what really matters

12.27.10

we had a wonderful christmas at our house with the four of us. leon had his first christmas and he enjoyed the fruit and robot that santa left in his stocking. stella woke up requesting her morning cereal and a cartoon so clearly we knew she forgot that santa had made a stop to our house.  a quick reminder and she jumped into a story of how she saw rudolph the red nosed reindeer fly across the moon last night and that she has REALLY good eye sight.  she is such a creative and passionate child with lots to share with the world.  i am working on trying to be a better mom to her and in doing that i need to listen to her more and see that she is actually teaching me a bunch of things. 

i am making a list of goals for 2011 and she and leon are up there on the top.  i want to focus more on both of them and i am really excited to see what this next year brings with my family and our relationships.  today we took the televisions out of the house so i will have more time to reflect and not waste time watching countless hours of crap.  i want to take on more personal projects and that excites me. i thought this post deserved some of stella's art work. she loves drawing pictures of people and most of the time that includes putting a big smile on someones face.

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Comments
Daniel Chee said: She drew herself happy. Congratulations on your beautifully creative children! I am pretty sure you could hang this in the Cy Twombly Museum and it would be the best thing there. (12.27.10 @ 09:45 PM)
Aubrey said: Hey that's me! She is such a wonderful little person. You guys have amazing children and I look forward to watching them grow. Go schwab mob.... shepard.... (12.27.10 @ 09:50 PM)
elizabeth antonia said: i love this. it put a big smile on my face (as well as the post directly above it of your two sweet babes!) such an important thing for us to try and do, connect with them. i'm going to try my darndest too! (01.05.11 @ 02:20 PM)