(kinda long post) A little bit about me that's not in my "About me" section. I'm 28 years old. I'm a shift manager at Pizza Hut and if all goes as planned I'll be GM in 2 years. I had my son, Adam, when I was 19(a couple months shy of 20) and he changed my world for the better. I don't know where I would be had he not come along. I was a stay at home single mom with him for 2 years. Thankfully I have amazing grandparents that made that possible for me and let me live in their basement apartment rent free during that time. My boyfriend and I got together when my son was 2 1/2. He is the only father my son has ever known. And the best father I could ask for for my son. Those 2 are 2 peas in a pod. Adam had(has) some small medical issues. He was diagnosed with cranialsyntosis when he was a toddler, that is where his skull didn't fuse properly so he has a ridge running down the middle of his forehead, it's barely noticeable anymore. At 6 he was diagnosed with ADHD, ODD, OCD and anxiety. It's been a bit of a challenge figuring all that out but we are on a path that hopefully helps make some things more manageable for our whole family. Just days after Adam's 7th birthday I found out I was pregnant with his little Sister Annalya(Annie). He wanted a little brother so bad. He came with to my ultrasound to find out if he was gonna have a little brother or sister and after they told us she was a girl he kept asking "is it a boy yet". I was nervous how he was going to react when she was actually born. Going from an only child of almost 8 years to a big brother of a baby who is gonna need a lot of attention. He amazed me and still does. He is an awesome big brother. When Annie was born she cried and slept more than a normal newborn. as time went on it didn't get better, in fact it got worse. She was either sleeping or screaming. She would spit up at least half of every bottle she drank. We changed her formula numerous times. Added cereal to her bottle( per Dr recommendations and recipe) started cereal and foods early hoping with it being thicker she would be able to hold it down better. she loved her foods but even that she spit up. She stopped eating 'solids'. Absolutely refused them. A week later she started having episodes where she would stop breathing and start shaking. I had her into 3 different ERs. with no answers. So I made the decision to take her to the St. Paul Children's Hospital where they ran numerous test and scans and ultimately we found out she had a desmoplastic infantile ganglioglioma(D.I.G.) a massive brain tumor/cyst combo that took up about half her brain. My baby had to have emergency brain surgery(the day before her 6 month birthday) to have it removed. That was the LONGEST day of my life. We spent 52 days in the hospital in which time she had a total of 3 surgeries, 2 on/in her brain on to have a feeding tube placed since she still refused to eat. she had the feeding tube for about 9 months. Adam was a champ through all of it. We were able to see him almost every weekend. He was able to spend some nights with us as well. That time in Children's taught me so much it's unbelievable. It's Amazing what a baby can go through. It's amazing the night and day difference of my baby before and after surgeries. of both my babies. The strength they both have. The love they share. The difference they both made in me. My babies are my world and I will do whatever it takes to make sure they have everything they could ever need or want.