christina angeli 🌺

  Trystyn Thaddeus , i can't believe 3 years had passed since I first laid eyes on you, since i first heard you cry, since the 1st time you were laid on top of me. i could vividly remember how my tears unabashedly fell when when you finally came out and oh my heart felt like it was about to burst with joy. and now you are 3 years old. wow. that fast! i'm amazed at the many things you have learned and the many songs you have memorized. i will always think you are my baby but I am excited for the many more things that you would learn and accomplish! know that mommy and daddy will always support you all the way. and let me start your new year with the lines we say to each other everynight before we go to sleep, " i love you so much! i love you forever!" happy birthday, love! Even if we are in quarantine because of the COVID-19 pandemic love, and that there were only 7 of us in your party (with food good for 20 hahah), I hope you still had a blast with your paw patrol p...

I was asked by The Freeman Newspaper on what motherhood has taught me and this was my answer which was posted in their Facebook  page.  :) "For years, during Mother's Day, I always prayed that the next year I'd finally get to be greeted, 'Happy Mother's Day!.' For years, I cried. And the all knowing answered my relentless prayers. I was blessed with Trystyn last July 2017 . What has the almost three years of being a mom taught me? It taught me about selfless love. I’ve given up so many things for Trystyn: My body (oh, you should see my flabs and my stripes), my space (I can’t even do Number two in peace), my time (oh how I miss going out until the wee hours of the morning), sleep (28 months of breastfeeding did not allow me to sleep straight throughout the night). I may have lost some parts of my former life but I’d put my son’s welfare and needs over my own. Before composing my answer to the question, 'What has motherhood taught you?,' my son decided t...

  deserve to wear red lippies and post a shameless selfie (unfiltered at that) for self love on mother's day! -for motherhood is not easy and my road to it took a lot of crying and trying. -my pregnancy was not easy and required countless ultrasounds (more or less 15 utz) and months of bedrest and a lot of medicines -my delivery (less than 36 weeks) was induced and painful and expensive even via Normal delivery ( ) -i had bladder atony which was more painful than my labor and which required me to use a catheter for 3 weeks -i had to work at 6 weeks postpartum with no house help and that meant being home by 5pm to take over from the lola, wash & sterilize bottles and pump parts -for continuing to work on my cases when the bub is asleep -for pumping everywhere just to ensure Trystyn is breastmilk fed (and the pressure and blues that came with it) -for i had ugly and unattractive days -for there were tiring and exhausting and overwhelming days -coz losing weight was hard AF -for...