I'm back!

On my way home from class I decided I was going to knock out a lot of homework so I wont have much to do this weekend andddd guess what happened? I got on here. Typical. Guess I'll share a few updates and stories from when I was gone:

Weekend:

Well, the weekend was better than expected. Nothing too special, but having my family around was really important. It was also my Nonna's 89th birthday. Kinda a somber mix. Let's celebrate your birthday and your husbands death? It all worked though because she had a really good day on Saturday. My aunt put together a slide show of old pictures of my Nonno and his family and it was so cool. I got to see my Nonno's brothers and when he came to America, his wedding and honeymoon with my Nonna, everything up until the month he died. It was amazing, in a weird way, to see how much he had changed in the last month but it was also great to see how full of a life he lived and how much he accomplished. He will forever be in my heart.

Background:

My Nonno was diagnosed with lung cancer about a year ago. He smoked for the majority of his life so he was lucky to have lived so long and get cancer at 87. My Nonna has Alzheimer's and right now, we believe, is back in her late 20s, early 30s because she always talks about having to go home to her mother and father and that she doesn't have a husband. She has her good days and her bad days. Her first language is Italian so she has pretty much reverted back to speaking that and gets mad when you don't know how to speak it. It's funny/sad to see her get angry because she was neverrrrr an angry person but she just gets so frustrated! So now that I've made you depressed I'll end with their love story..

Love:

My Nonno and Nonna were both born and raised in Italy but never met until they came to America. My Nonno went off to fight in WWII when he was 19 and survived being a prisoner of war in concentration camps and all those other terrible other things. He stayed with his mother until she died and then came to America to work with his brothers. They were set up on a blind date and the rest is history. They were both in their late 30s so for those of you without love, don't give up hope.

So that was a little bit of a scattered, long entry but I hope you enjoy!

Do you have any stories you were told about your grandparents?

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