JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

Elisabeth is now sixteen months old and I’m realizing I should try to encourage more her to walk. Although I often wait to buy shoes until the child can toddle around a bit, waiting until they are absolutely necessary, I think it’s time to head to the mall and get some little white Stride Rites; […]

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Kitchen remodeling always seemed something like a nightmare to me. I’ve heard stories about subsisting off of microwave meals and washing dishes in the bathroom sink. Well, this is about as close as I’ve gotten so far: our kitchen sink is out of service for two days or so while we re-caulk the seam. This […]

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Yesterday Ted and I got to get out to the movies for most of the day. Leaving the kids for almost five hours, just to see a film, well, it makes me wonder…makes me think about the list of things I’d rather do in five hours alone with my husband…like go to the sushi restaurant […]

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You know that you’re in that season of life known as married-with-young-children when you spend your Saturday night caulking the kitchen sink. As I told Ted, though, I like working on projects together: that’s why I married him! Neither of us is that handy, but we have had a few bonding experiences involving bathrooms and […]

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I’ve been having fun cooking some special meals this week… Crab, one of Ted’s favorites, was on sale recently so I made cioppino on Tuesday night. Cioppino has been in my holiday repertoire since we moved to the San Francisco area, where we had friends who liked to make it for Christmas Eve dinner. They […]

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