JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

I’ve mentioned a bit about Abigail and Elisabeth… here’s a post about Michaela. For her birthday she got another hippopotamus toy, a smaller green and pink one. She named it Hippopotamus – or sometimes she says Hippomopotamus – and it became the baby of Hippo, the big beige one she got last year (thanks to […]

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The other day we were at a friend’s home. My friend has an old toy phone, from her own childhood, plastic with big blue eyes, rotary dial and long string cord to an orange receiver. It might have wheels on it too. Elisabeth wasn’t sure what to do with it, looked at it strangely. But […]

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I’m not sure how it started. I think I was trying to help Abigail understand how some of the rest of the world lives. Maybe I mentioned that not everyone has beds like we do. And she started asking questions. She wanted to know specifics. So I told her that there were children who didn’t […]

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Crackers. Ritz crackers. Bits of Ritz crackers. Bits of Ritz crackers left behind by a baby in the stroller. Yep, the stroller. That’s where our friend Mouse had found a home. I made this discovery this morning, again while on the way to a friend’s home. I went into the garage to get the stroller. […]

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apologies to Steinbeck, of course…. …. yesterday I began blogging about our adventures this week, hinting that perhaps we had discovered who was nibbling on zucchini in our garden.. Tuesday morning we had plans to get together with a friend at her home. The girls and I headed out to the garage. As was my […]

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