It's Elvis week!

Anyone who knows me well, knows I am a HUGE  Elvis fan--always have been, always will be!  I was very little when he was very popular--preteen, young teen and in those days we just got our first B/W tv with very limited access.  So my exposure back then was an occasional record, a very occasional movie and an occasional tv show with his appearance on it.  

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As I grew into a 20 something, I grew to love his music (and, lets face it, his body) more and more, but as a young mother with literally 4 babies (4 of them ages 6 and under), I had little time to dwell on a super star!   However,I never outgrew his voice and his music and found myself more and more listening to it whenever I could.   and then, on my Birthday, my 30th Birthday to be exact, Elvis died!  I didn't think it would really hit me like it did.  I realized how much I really loved his music and how much it had really filtered into my life--even when I wasn't watching.

Now, as an "older" adult, I still listen to him daily--I have the "Elvis" station tuned in on my serrius XM radio in my car and find that in this day and age of drama, politics, family conflicts, deadlines, etc., etc. his music takes me back to a time when life didn't seem so complicated and more easy going.  I call it my "Happy Place"--everyone needs their happy place to escape the world sometimes.  I just go to mine almost evey day.  It keeps things in perspective and calms the drama.

Recently, I got to go to an Elvis show and what fun it was.  For the first time I got to "feel" what it would have been like to see him sing personally.  I felt like a real kid again (actually, most of the time I feel like a kid, but this was in a different way.)  And actually there was a whole room of us "teenagers" there enjoying our little bit of Elvis.

My Bucket list has always included a trip to Graceland, now more than ever, that piece of my list has come to the top of the bucket.  In the meantime, I want to hit a few more of these "concerts", if you will.

It's Elvis week in Graceland, It's my Birthday, It's been 35 years---and I'm remembering a legend by going to the fair tomorrow  and I will listen to his music all the way there and all the way back. That's just the way it is---and I will sing along and maybe even shed a tear--especially if they play "Final Curtain"---it was, you know, ---one of the last songs he sang.

WE LOVE YOU, ELVIS!