I love the book "Elvis and Me". Every time I read it, I happen to understand this family even more. Here are some of my favorite moments in the book:

PRISCILLA COOKS LASAGNA

"I decided one evening to show off my cooking skills for everyone by making one of Elvis's favorite dishes, lasagna. I invited the regulars, bragging to one and all about how well I prepared this Italian specialty. Despite my outward confidence, I must have made ten long-distance calls to my mother in New Jersey, checking and rechecking on quantities and measurements. It was important for me to prove myself a success. Joe Esposito, our only Italian and a 'gourmet chef', kidded me all week about how he bet that my lasagna wouldn't be as good as his. All that ribbing only made me more nervous. I kept thinking, What do I know about pasta? I'm not even Italian.
Finally, the night of the dinner came. Everyone was seated at the table, watching me expectantly. I tried to appear cool and confident as I brought out the fancily prepared platter and started cutting individual squares for my guests. I did notice that when I started slicing the lasagna, it felt a little tough, but thinking I was holding a dull knife, I continued dishing it out.
I sat down, smiled anxiously, and said 'Please start.' We all took a bite and--crunch. There was a look of shock on everyone's face. I looked at my plate and was mortified when I realized I had forgotten to boil the pasta.
Elvis began laughing, but when he saw I was about to cry he turned to his plate and began eating, uncooked noodles and all. Taking their lead from him, everyone followed suit.
Joe Esposito still laughs about it, frequently saying, 'Cilla? How about some lasagna?'

LISA IS BORN

"Our daughter, Lisa Marie, was born at 5:01 that afternoon. The nurse brought her into my room and I cradled her in my arms. I couldn't believe she was mine, that I had borne this child. She was so tiny, so beautiful. Elvis came into the room and kissed me, thrilled that we had a perfectly normal, healthy baby. He was already in love with her. He watched me holding her and his eyes misted with happiness. Then he took us in his arms and held us.
'Nungen', he whispered, which was his way of saying 'young one'. 'Us has a little baby girl.'
'Her knows,' I whispered back.
I asked if he wanted to hold her. He looked petrified at first, but then he started to touch her.He played with her hands, her feet. He was in awe, saying, 'I can't believe that I made part of this beautiful child.' Elvis knew that I had wanted the baby to have dark hair like his, and Lisa had been born with lots of silky black hair. 'She's so perfect,' he said, 'even the color of her hair is right.'

ELVIS SPANKS LISA

"Although Elvis much preferred to spoil Lisa, he did discipline her from time to time. Once he paddled her for writing all over a beautiful velvet couch with crayons. Then he immediately went into a panic, wanting me to assure him that he'd done the right thing and that Lisa wouldn't hold it against him. When I told him, 'If you hadn't spanked her, I'd have,' he felt better. The only other time he touched her in anger was after we'd repeatedly warned her not to go near the pool and she did. (She remembers this well and is proudly pleased by her two paddlings.)

LITTLE LISA

"By the time Lisa was four, she realized she could manipulate the help. Whenever one of them refused to do something for her, she'd threaten, 'I'm gonna tell my daddy and you're going to get fired!' Since none of them wanted her going to Elvis, they'd let her get her way, from staying up until all hours and skipping baths to staying home from school. The result was that Lisa had trouble learning what was right and wrong and what she could and couldn't do.
'You don't treat people that way,' I told her. 'It's abusive. Yes, they work for your father. But you don't go around threatening them.' Used to seeing people jump at her father's command, Lisa took years to overcome this habit. At family gatherings today with Jerry Schilling, Joe Esposito and Dee Presley's sons Ricky and David, we still joke about Lisa's imperious past.

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I love this book!

very cute i love elvis and me

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