I wish it was just 1 coin. This was my sure thing so I could stay at home with my daughter. I feel so stupid.

Don't do that
Sell 0.75 BTC for cash and 0.25 BTC for NMC
NMC behaves like a BTC option - should BTC go back to 1000, NMC may go from 2 to 10 or more
That way you can extract cash and stay invested