![]() ![]() Micki relives the happy times of raising six children while living in a haunted house, as the young parents grow up with their kids. From the bizarre teenage elopement with her high school sweetheart, Butch, in a double wedding with her own mother, to comical family trips across country in an antiquated camper with six kids and a dog, they leave a path of chaos, antics and destruction in their wake. While sitting vigil in the ICU waiting room, Micki traverses the past, as a way of dealing with an inconceivable future. For the Peluso's the nightmare begins.Micki and Butch face the horror every parent fears-awaiting the fate of one of their children. After offering her mother a buck if she'll do them, with an impish grin, the child rushes out the front door, too excited for a hug, calling out, "Bye Mom," as the door slams shut. ![]() Except for the one whose turn it is to do the dishes. As soon as the last morsel is ravished, the lot of them is off in different directions. ![]() Around the dining room table of her 100 year old farmhouse Micki Peluso's six children along with three of their friends eagerly gulp down a chicken dinner. A mother's account of actual events of her family, filled with laughter, love, loss, and survival.It is a day like any other, except the intense heat wave has broken and signs of early fall are in the air. Happy times, a sunny day, a driving drunk, eight lives forever changed. ![]()
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