JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

Today I’m posting a picture taken by a guest photographer.

Ted is on vacation this week and yesterday, while wandering outside with his parents and the kids, he decided to try to take a picture of the tulip, one of the last ones in the garden. I think he has a great eye - [...]

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Scheherazade linked to Autumn’s post on the differences between love and being in love For a while, in my own life, I’ve been realizing how my feelings about my marriage and romance have changed through time. Also the comments in this post on love I wrote began a discussion of the benefits of [...]

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The joys of the past two days….
Looks like Abigail may not have the chicken pox after all. The spots don’t seem to be consistent with what varicella would do. Two days later they are still the same in number and size. We’re not sure what she has. Perhaps, as Katherine noticed, an allergic [...]

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Lauren’s description of the beluga whale that liked her reminded me of another childhood memory with my dad, relating to him, a special time we shared at the Vancouver Aquarium many summers ago. I can still see the whale looking at my dad through its side of the glass after he had [...]

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Last night when the power was out, after the girls went to sleep, I asked Ted: “What are we going to do here in the dark all night…?”
Ah, then I realized I could read the booklet about Ralph Waldo Emerson and his children that had been waiting in my reading pile. So I [...]

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Our walk in Bainbridge Island’s Grand Forest on Saturday reminded me of Robert Frost’s poem Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening. It was neither snowy nor evening - rather it was morning and rainy (a sudden downpour as we exited - perhaps predicted by the sky) but despite the years that had [...]

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This spring, again, it seems we have a bumper crop of tent caterpillars. Abigiail’s glad since she thinks of them as her pets. As documented in this picture, she likes to let them crawl up her arms. When I told her that we needed to go in the van and that she had to put [...]

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My local friend Jenny has started a blog: Jenny On the Spot. She’s a mom to 1-year-old Olivia (who’s a little older than my Elisabeth) and a 4-year-old boy Joel. (Her blog has a great picture of the two but I confess some curiousity about the tulips - are the kids that small [...]

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this grace in which we stand
Romans 5:4
This week I’ve been reading about grace. And I’ve been needing grace.
I need it all the time. Yet I forget.
But it is on a week like this one when I see how much I lack. When I find myself yelling at the girls before we even get [...]

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