In life you go through many struggles. For many people they can be struggles with negative outcomes or they can be struggles with positive outcomes. My journey thus far has had both a negative and a positive outcome for me. For my family and me, our lives changed forever on December 1st, 2009 when the stork would deliver one of the greatest gifts anyone would ever want. Being an older sister, I have had to face many challenges with all of my younger siblings before my younger sister was delivered. I consider myself a second mom to my sisters and brother because of the change my family had to go through. At the time I was an eighth grader and I knew that I would have to grow up and become more mature. I had to volunteer around the house more and discipline my siblings because my mother would constantly be sleeping, eating, or just did not have the energy to get out of bed. My father spent as much time as he could at home so he could take care of my mother and we kids, but he could not be there the entire time because he had to work. The day my sister was born was both sad and happy because we had an addition to an already big family, it was sad because we expected the baby to be a boy not a girl. It was very hard for us because before the birth we did not know what the sex of the baby would be and we all expected her to be a boy not a girl. My brother at the time was nine and he wanted her to be a boy so badly because he was the only boy in the family. When he found out that the baby was a girl his face turned
