This is it. It’s the big one! My girls are officially adults! So, if anyone needs me today, I’ll be in my closet crying into a bucket of nacho cheese. These girls have been pushed to the limit. They have been through things that would break so many. And they have handled it all with such grace and resilience that I don’t even know how to express the pride I feel from being their mom. It always annoys me slightly when people say they don’t know how the girls have dealt with all this and kept it together. That’s because I know. They are eternal optimists with just a splash…

So today is a big important day for us. We have made the anniversary of my twins’ craniotomy surgeries into a big-time holiday around here. To be completely honest, the Brainaversary is at least as big of a deal as a birthday is nowadays. I mean, we get a cake and presents, buy balloons, and do a fun activity with my favorite patient of the day. It’s a very big deal here. And we get to do it twice! As a twin family, we’re used to doing most things twice around here, but not 3 months apart. In a way, it’s kind of a silver lining that my girls each…