She was everything to me. Today marks 28 years without her sassy attitude. Her cantankerous personality and her sweet, delicious homemade Italian sauce.
I try to remember a lot about her but as the years go by, I wonder what are real memories and what are ones that I have made up in my own mind from stories told of her to me. She was a no nonsense type of woman. She was a realist. She did not sugar coat anything. She told it how it was and if you didn't like it then too bad.
I wish I had her in my life longer. I wish she could have seen the woman I have become and the family I have created. I wonder what she would think of me.
I would have liked to have asked her advice on so many things. I would have loved to listen to more of the stories she told. I would have loved to have spend more years watching Wheel of Fortune, Highway to Heaven and The Golden Girls.
I wonder what she would have thought about computers, tablets, technology.
I wonder what she would have thought about the husband and the kids.
I miss our chats. I miss our card games. I miss our dinners together and our TV nights.
Nana, I hope I have made you proud.
I wish I was there for you that day.
But you are in my heart everyday you crazy old Italian lady.
Give 'em hell wherever you are and don't take no shit from nobody.
~t
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