But when that time comes, Amanda will teach him the lesson that has really helped her. Amanda shared with us that she will always return to Nick’s wishes for her and Nick whenever she is feeling lost, stuck, or confused. It immediately gets me out of a sad-grief place and it puts me in a happy-grief place of, ‘I have to live my life for him. Elvis deserves every opportunity that I can give him.

Nick’s mother actually made a promise to her before Nick passed away that she’d do everything in her power and take him everywhere.

“So, I’m a hard-working single mama to make sure he has the best of life,” Amanda, who threw Elvis a dinosaur-themed birthday party last month, said, “and that really pushes me to keep going for my dreams, put him to bed at night but then open my computer and keep working. He’s a force of so much hardwork and inspiration.