I am here too!!!!

At the Elvis concert last week, Nellie just had to be noticed.  As mentioned earlier (in Dance with me?) she wanted to be noticed, she danced with random men, but she also had to upstage the performer.  She went on stage many times sometimes just to hand him a picture of himself!  He was gracious and seemed ok with it; the audience seemed ok with it.  Were Peter and I ok with it?  We were physically cringing….. yep faces covered, bent over, back to the people (which is silly because we were at the back of the concert….).  But our recovery time has improved, we merely cringed then moved on…!  People who knew Nellie belonged to us, turned to laugh or smile WITH us; we gave them a look of ‘well what are we supposed to do?’ But we moved on pretty quick and got on with the business of selling liquor tickets.  Liquor helps, it helps us all!!!!  Just kidding what helps is a sense of humour and that is something Peter and I have always have had but really needed once we had Nellie.  We have had a lot of laughs (lots of tears, well me not Peter) with Nellie, about Nellie, and if Peter was writing this he would remember most of them and articulate them really well.  But not me, I forget them all, unless I write them down, but I don’t and now they are gone to the clouds, gone forever until Peter reminds me of them……!  But then we laugh and thank our lucky stars that we have the family we have and are grateful.  That we belong together and were made for each other… all of us. 

That our family is ‘colourful’ not grey and dull, we are all colourful, different, interesting, unpredictable.  I like to think of us as rainbow.  When people say to us “awwww Nellie is so lucky to have parents like you” there is so many, many things wrong with that statement (too many to go into here a whole separate blog) but we are all lucky we have each other.  Yep I am glad I have who I have, wouldn’t change it for the world….. well unless Brad Pitt was ready and available!!