11:52pm

Hello!

Its 11:52pm, do you know where your children are?
I certainly do, shes kicking me in the ribs, while singing a song.

I'm the mother to a beautiful little girl named Anissa Christina, she is a spunky, witty, energized beyond belief little girl who I adore. I gave birth to her via c-section a year and 4 months ago, greatest day of my life might I add. I have to say that carrying her in my womb was definitely challenging, and sometimes quite overwhelming, but I'm sure that is the experience of every first time mother. I had a harder time emotionally because I feared that I would not be able to carry her to full term with all the complications I had.

Complications you ask? Well for starters she was my third pregnancy, and I had miscarried the first two, so my Dr's placed me under the "high risk" status. I then found out in all the initial blood testing that I had a blood disease called Thalassemia Minor, total killer, not to me, but the symptoms made me feel like I was dead. I literally spent years of my life suffering with this disease and never even knew. It was a total relief to explain why I was tired and slept all the time as a pre-pubescent girl, and even as an adult. Its a blood disease that causes you to be severely anemic. When you suffer from anemia you get really pale, black circles under your eyes, your extremely tired, and you just wanna sleep. Not so bad when your pregnant, but when you have suffered with these disease your whole life and your mother in law calls you lazy because you sleep alot, that hurts. lol. I also developed Gestational Diabetes, which was supposed to subside after the pregnancy, and it didn't, but I don't blame Anissa, I blame genetics, and tortillas.

I must say that I enjoy being a mother, I was the oldest and I disliked babysitting, but when your a mother and its your child, it different. We definitely have fun, and that's what matters right?

Well this is my first blog, kinda rusty, but I promise that as I blog more Ill get better. Keep reading and be blessed.