A 7-year-old girl is back home after facing cancer for the third time.

Nova Stafford spent 10 months at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, where she underwent chemotherapy and surgery for a rare bone cancer.

Now, she and her family are celebrating her homecoming and enjoying life one moment at a time.

“You beat cancer again, how do you feel?” Nova was asked.

“Good. Very good,” she said.

Nova’s journey through life has been filled with ups and downs, including finishing chemotherapy.

At such a young age, she has already battled cancer three times — twice in the eye and, more recently, in her thigh bone with osteosarcoma.

One of the side effects of treatment is hair loss, something that has been difficult for Nova.

“A little bit sad,” she said. “I’ve been crying yesterday about it.”

Nova’s mother, Matisha, said her daughter started complaining of leg pain in December of last year.

“Picking her up from school. The teacher would carry her out of school. It happened fairly fast. I said let’s go to St. Jude and see what’s going on,” Matisha said.

Tests confirmed a third cancer diagnosis, something the Stafford family was not ready to hear.

“We left with a week of clothing because we thought we would just be there for our annual appointments and we ended up staying there longer for 10 months,” Matisha said.

Matisha said she was overwhelmed and found it hard to have positive thoughts. The cancer battle was physically difficult for Nova and emotionally difficult for her family.

“She has a prosthetic femur and a prosthetic knee, devices inside of her leg,” Matisha said.

When it became too much for Nova, her mother would use her favorite artists to motivate her to push through.

“I love Beyonce, she’s my favorite singer,” Nova said.

When asked about her favorite Beyoncé song, Nova said, “Yaya, because I got a yaya,” she said, referring to her grandmother.

The Staffords had been home from St. Jude in Memphis for 18 hours when they began planning what comes next.

“I think right now we’re not going to worry about getting back into a routine. We’re just going to live life and find things to do. We’re going to travel a little bit before we get back into the swing of school, because we’ve been confined to a hospital for 10 months with her,” Matisha said.

For the Stafford family, the moments are too precious to let slip away.