Photographs and Memories...

Now Listening to George Winston: 'December'


My sister recently sent me some more photos of my family....(thanks sis!)

Mainly, I am drawn to photos of my mom. She was so beautiful - drop-dead gorgeous actually (until she got 'sick' with heart disease).

This Monday, November 20th would have been her 82nd birthday.

I miss her a lot...I think I always will...

This one is of my mom with one of her best friends, my 'Aunt' Theresa - my mom is on the right:



In this one, my sister and I can not figure out for the life of us who the guy was - considering my mom's looks it was probably one of her many beaus:



This one was taken outside of my Italian grandmother's house in East Liberty (near Pittsburgh, PA) - my mom, my aunt Jada and my grandmother all posed like this for pictures which was really cool.



Lastly, this is one of our family right before my mom died (probably less than one year). From left to right, in the background, my sister Jeannine, my brother Kevin (with the 'I am about to do something really mischievous look on his face), my brother Bill, and in the red shirt with the where-the-heck-did-you-find-that-big-ugly-wooden-cross, looking quite the dorkette
is me, my dad is seated in the foreground, and my mom (looking very sickly) is next to me: