Something funny happens to your soul when your child gets a life threatening disease. You realize you are no longer invincible. I'm sure this also happens when you reach middle age or have your own near death experience. But I never thought I would realize it because my child had cancer. But it happened. It's happening.
Today is a big day for both zach and I and our bucket lists. He will open to the public for the first time his hot dog cart aka Weber's Weenies. And I am now the proud owner of 10 ISBN numbers which gives me publishing rights to my books, which is almost done being edited. Before I go on, I must give props to my friend who edited it. I knew she would be perfect because she does that sort of stud for a living and is an avid reader. But what I didn't tell her before she agreed to do this project, was I wrote it, and then I couldn't even go back and pre-edit because I couldn't read it. I was too scared and not quite ready to re-live some memories again. So god only knows what kind of mess she had to sort through. For that, I am forever grateful. And I promise to pre-edit the next one! Ha!
So I'm almost in tears, very excited, nervous, and sad all at the same time over this book. It was written because my child has cancer. I've always wanted to write a book and love writing, I just didn't think it would be non-fiction. I honesty thought it would be more fairy tale like. And I must say our real life is way better than any fairy tale I could have imagined. It's sad, humbling, funny, and has a fairy tale ending-I'm positive of that.
Now for zach!! I'm so proud of him. He talked for YEARS prior to Lucy getting sick how much he wanted a hotdog cart!! He is charismatic and will be a great people person. And people thought we were joking when we said we would open a hot dog cart one day called Weber's Weenies. Well no joke cuz I got one parked in my back garage!! And I've eaten so many hotdogs in the past month (testing products to find the best) that I know this is a reality. Come on out today and visit Zachs dream. And we are having a st Jude fundraiser! Because today belongs to Lucy weber. The mayor said so ;) and there wouldn't be a Lucy Weber without St Jude (and some hard work on zach and my part, but that's another story)
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