Happy times, a sunny day, a driving drunk, eight lives forever
changed. 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. 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. As soon as the last
morsel is ravished, the lot of them is off in different directions.
Except for the one whose turn it is to do the dishes. 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. For the Peluso's the
nightmare begins. Micki and Butch face the horror every parent
fears-awaiting the fate of one of their children. While sitting
vigil in the ICU waiting room, Micki traverses the past, as a way
of dealing with an inconceivable future. 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. Micki relives the
happy times of raising six children while living in a haunted
house, as the young parents grow up with their kids. She bravely
attempts to be the man of the house while her husband, Butch is
working out of town. Hearing strange noises, which all the younger
kids are sure is the ghosts, Micki tiptoes down to the cellar,
shotgun in hand and nearly shoots an Idaho potato that has fallen
from the pantry and thumped down the stairs. Of course her children
feel obligated to tell the world. Just when their lives are nearly
perfect, tragedy strikes-and the laughter dies. A terrible accident
takes place in the placid valley nestled within the Susquehanna
Mountains in the town of Williamsport, Pennsylvania. On a country
lane just blocks from the family's hundred year old haunted
farmhouse, lives are changed forever. In a state of shock, Micki
muses through their delightful past to avoid confronting an
uncertain future-as the family copes with fear and apprehension.
One of her six children is fighting for life in Intensive Care.
Both parents are pressured by doctors to disconnect Noelle, their
fourteen-year-old daughter. Her beautiful girl, funny and bright,
who breathes life into every moment, who does cartwheels in piles
of Autumn leaves, who loves to sing and dance down country roads,
and above all loves her family with all her soul. How can Micki let
this child go? The family embarks upon yet another journey, to the
other side of sorrow and grasps the poignant gift of life as they
begin. . .to weep. . .to laugh. . .to grieve. . .to dance-and
forgive.
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