Rosie Shalhoub | Public figure
Rosie Shalhoub
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18.01.2022 Two months straight, 16 hour days, no life, no sleep, online orders coming out of my you know where and just when you want to give it all in your remember what you are doing it all for! 7 days to go Ross Pirillo, we are almost there
17.01.2022 This is a long one.. It’s Thanksgiving everyday in my world and today as I wake up from the very little sleep I have had , my body aching from the amount of ord...ers that are flooding in, I haven’t been eating properly as the hours we are doing are way too loooooooong and I would love nothing more than to sleep in and hang with my kids at the grandparents pool today I reflect on all of this. I am thankful for the fact that I have work and money coming in to feed my family in what has been the busiest Christmas retail has ever seen. I am thankful that I didn’t buy into the doom and gloom of mainstream media predicting a retail recession and each time I complain about the hours we are doing I think of the many people who have lost their jobs and livelihoods in 2020. I am thankful that for each ache in my body and callous on my feet reminds me that I have work, can pay my bills , feed my family and have some spare to buy Christmas presents as I greet a new day knowing full well that Covid19 can hit me, my family, my career any day, any moment, any time. I am thankful that when I miss my children to the point it kills my heart that my children have an opportunity to have another home at their grandparents and that my parents can spoil and love them the way I was with my grandparents whilst they were alive. I am thankful that my children will at my age always reflect back on days gone by of the love only a grand parent can. I too am thankful for the love and support from four amazing children who I did not birth but I still call my own. Knowing that a blended family could have gone the complete other way. Even my very own Cinderfella Dion Pirillo who either has me at the edge of my seat or in tears from the errands and help I receive from him. I am thankful that after the amount of sad sad stories I hear when I paint the memorial ornaments each year , and especially in 2020 where there seems to be so many people called to the big gates up high, that another year has passed where mine close to my heart are not yet wanted upstairs. I say this fully aware that life is precious and that there will be a year when I find myself writing the name of someone I can’t bare the thought of losing from my life in a memorial item also. I am thankful that for each time I complain I haven’t eaten that another kilo is coming of my very overweight body menopausal body. I am thankful for the love and support that I receive from my husband Ross Pirillo each and every day and for putting up with my hot flashes (at inconvenient times ), my unpredictable mood swings and the random supernatural things that happen in my world that would send any other sane man to a loony bin. Menopause has taught me to be thankful for my youth but so grateful for the wisdom and lessons that I have learnt over the years as I enter my crone years still full of life and joy. I am thankful that after believing I would die in my apartment of 25 years That life took us in another direction and we moved into my dream home . But it wasn’t the home I am thankful for it is the wonderful, truly amazing neighbours we were lucky enough to move next door to. They have filled our lives with so much love and joy and have taught me that sometimes strangers can be family to. Thank you Bryce Ellis, Nikee Sawyer, Ian and Cathy but mostly my Aurora baby girl. And finally to my friends who I will not tag in fear that the state my brain is in , with all its glitter and fog I may leave someone out. But to YOU my Facebook friend I am thankful for your posts that take me away from my world and into yours, for the times you have allowed me to vent my frustrations and the times you have laughed with me on the craziness that only we can share on fb. I may be late (as usual) but thankful that I still found time to write this post. Happy belated Thanksgiving my friends. I am grateful that 2020 has taught me to be thankful each and every day. Ross Pirillo Michael Shalhoub
08.01.2022 Head on over to our Insta page EmbraceAustralia for our live sale at 5pm this arvo!
