Greetings from 1965

This was a photo that I love from my uncles wake. It shows the whole family. Grandma is in the middle. Uncle V is on one side and Aunt Rosie is on the other. My Uncle Angelo is directly above Grandma with his wife Aunt Marie.

That handsome Irishman is my Da who is standing behind Laverne DeFazio.

I got the Chalice!

Our cousin Anthony is about to become ordained as a priest and he stopped off to show us his new chalice that he just got from the chalice store. It is a beauty. It has representations of Jesus, Mary and Joseph and some rubies and a cross on it made of Amethyst.

He used to be an FBI agent but he retired and became a Priest. We are going to his first Mass in a couple of weeks before he goes down to Delaware to get his parish assignment. He is having a party where half the people will be FBI agents and the other half Mafia guys he arrested.

The wife thinks she will get a discounted penance but I wouldn't count on that.

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mothers day to all the Mothers's of sons and daughters and to our grandmothers and our great-grandmothers.

Have a wonderful time with your family and know that you are loved!

How you doing pal.

The wife went through a bunch of photos and here is one of her dad.

The first time I met him was at Lisa's sisters wedding. We had only been going out for a couple of weeks but she felt she had to invite me. But she was the maid of honor and abandoned me to my own devices. I went to their house between the ceremony and the reception and I met him for the first time. I went up to introduce me and he looks me up and down and goes "How ya doing pal."

Luckily it all worked out and we haven't had a cross word since.