Category Archives: parenthood

getting dirrrty with it

By xtina | Published: October 27, 2008

So allo, you. Long time no see, eh? Tis been a bit busier than usual round these parts. Mommy’s been working on this and that, cooking up a lil bit of gardening with a dash of exercise and a heaping portion of yumdiddly good foods. Right now I’m gearing up for a month of blogging [...]

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Dazzled by my daughter

By xtina | Published: February 12, 2008

It has been a long time since I checked in with the Mutant. I missed this space even tho you can hardly tell by the dearth of entries. Life has been busy. A few days after the calendar new year we welcomed our daughter, Quinn, into the world and we haven’t stopped since then. In [...]

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latest development

By xtina | Published: April 30, 2007

today lucas described his toy car as the ‘red kia’.

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Oubliette. Oblige. Obliterate.

By xtina | Published: November 20, 2006

Words. Words are powerful. Words are imaginary and yet…wherever they are, there you are. I watch my son become indoctrinated by our language and I mourn for the self that disappears each day, the self beyond words that is so difficult to grasp as an adult. I know verbal language helps us incorporate into the [...]

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3 faces of sr lucas

By xtina | Published: November 18, 2006
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The freaks come out at night

By xtina | Published: November 16, 2006

Today was pretty low key. Lucas has been taking his naps at an earlier hour than usual, which has discombobulated my day. Now I think it’s later earlier. Does that make sense? It means that our afternoons are longer. They stretch before us in a sometimes imposing manner. Lately Wade has been taking Lucas on [...]

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Exhaustion. Ennui. & some other word that starts with ‘e’.

By xtina | Published: November 8, 2006

Urples. Life is so life-like. I can’t get over how much living is like life?!?! I mean who would thunk? Ah, listen to the bitching and moaning. Me in a nut shell. Christina likes to complain. Cos then it’s not my fault. It’s the fault of life! The fault of this stupid society. The fault [...]

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These are the days of his poop.

By xtina | Published: July 27, 2006

I have a few ideas for entries, but so many are thoughtful and require my focus for a few hours so I can pound out something more substantial. Judging from the title that inspiration typed out, this looks to be a typical slice of life entry from my prespective. Let’s see where I go. So [...]

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advice for new mamas & papas

By xtina | Published: June 26, 2006

we’ll soon be celebrating the little one’s 21st month. overall things have gone swimmingly as each day he grows into a determined, independant individual. i feel pretty passionate about him in a way that grows with each new development. his whims are my entertainment and i feel so lucky that i love shopping for toys, [...]

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Friday Dog Blogging

By spider | Published: June 16, 2006
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fitting the stereotype

By spider | Published: May 29, 2006

I was reading the comments to this hullabaloo post when I was reminded about a conversation I’d had with a fellow passenger on my flight home from Charlotte last week. My single-serving friend Kim was on her way to visit her two sons in Redding, where they’d be graduating from high school and college, respectively. [...]

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after school they’d take the old car her dad bought her for her sixteenth birthday to the fields and do donuts and crazy eights after drinking a few

By xtina | Published: May 15, 2006

advice for parents to remember…

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