AH! LOVE!

And I have the two lovers right here in the picture!

That guy is: “The Macaroni Man”, Christopher, my nephew and a direct descendant of Zio Felice, my grandmother’s brother.

Zio Felice came over from the “other side” as they used to say, on a boat. Half way across the ocean, someone told him, while he was standing on the deck in his grey fedora, white shirt and black tie, black suit and brown shoes, that there was NO macaroni in America. As he approached the railing for the long swim back to Italy, they restrained him and told him it was only a joke.

The young lady in the picture is Kim, his fiancé. It will be her job to feed him macaroni everyday of his life. And God forbid if he goes on life support, it will be liquefied and fed intravenously.

Every Sunday during football and baseball season, Chris comes over for dinner, and hopes it is macaroni. He eats the small D’italini for breakfast, spaghetti for lunch and ziti for dinner. He keeps a reserve of rigatoni for snacks, and will often pop them out and pass them out to whoever is near by!

As you can see, Kim is a beautiful gal, who will blend in with all the beautiful women that exist in my family.

Now the “Save The Date” is all about August 21st, 2010, when Chris will be eating macaroni from a new source, mainly his very own “Little Woman”! Yes, the boy popped the question and she popped him back by saying “Yes”!

His Mother is my sister MaryAnn, my mother’s favorite child, since she is named Mary after my mother’s mother, and because she has natural curly hair. The fact that Mary Ann is always straightening it out so she doesn’t look adopted doesn’t matter.

Mary Ann was left on our doorstep one morning, and when Dad went out to get the morning milk bottles, brought her in by mistake. Mom was made at Dad a whole week because the milk went sour! Macaroni Man works as a math teacher, and the lovely Kim, when she isn’t making macaroni, works for a bank, so she can converse with TLW (The Little Woman), who works for the Wanna-Be Bank and Truss Company.

So, CONGRATULATION, KIM AND MACARONI MAN!