*diagnosed with breast cancer in 2016. Resharing my story to spread awareness.
Let's talk about being MOM.
My greatest joy in life is being a mom. I grew up babysitting and taking care of others so that one day I could stop playing pretend and be the mom that I always dreamt of being.
I never in my wildest dreams had thought that I would be THIS mom.
Somehow I fell into the mom who had cancer.
How???
My babies were so young. Nnenna was 9, Amara was 6, Olanna was 4 and Toben was 11 months old.
When I first learned that I had cancer, I imagined my life in a year and naturally imagined the worst. In all honesty, I feared the unthinkable.
I went from being the mom who loved fiercely to being the mom who loved fiercely, captured EVERY moment and would NOT miss a single moment of their life.
A lot of my mom decisions to some seemed excessive LOL. And to that, YES it was. I really learned the lesson of celebrating every moment because the reality of my mortality was facing me every single day in a scary world where I had absolute zero control over.
This has seeped into so many moments of my life now. I don't want to miss a thing.
I love my babies and am so grateful that time has allowed me more years with them.
From the beginning of this journey I didn't want to be the cancer girl.
I just wanted to be MOM.
I had the opportunity to share that sentiment on tv back in 2017.
Cancer silver linings I tell ya 
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