JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

I wasn’t sure I should take the girls to watch the gymnastics competition today. I had begun to doubt what Ted and I were doing, bringing up our daughters with the sports of ice-skating (mostly watching it on TV) and gymnastics (taking kiddie classes on Saturday mornings). Is this what I want to do, encourage […]

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was IMing Ted: “there’s a big box here…” Soon as I opened the mailbox and spied the return address scrawled in pen on the cardboard, I knew what this package was. Precious cargo, long awaited. Walking back up the hill to the house I thought about what to do. Bang on his office door? Rush […]

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The other day while I was walking Elisabeth in the hall, I began wondering why she wasn’t as talkative as my other two were at the same age. In my journal, I have a list of all the words Abigail could babble at eighteen months. She knew that a cow said “moo” and a dog […]

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‘Cause she’s walking ! She’s not marching all over the place yet, but almost as if on cue, soon as she got her own shoes this week, she began taking longer toddles, sometimes doing as long as ten or twelve steps at a time. I think she’s having fun too joining her sisters on the […]

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Yesterday was the kind of day I wanted to fast forward. Just get me to tomorrow somehow I prayed. And soon… The girls had nightmares, waking everyone up at 4 am. Abigail had two more before she finally went back to sleep. I had gone to bed late anyway but had a hard time going […]

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