my parents and i were hoping to go visit with gino this afternoon, but audrey called to tell me when she called to see how gino was doing, loraine said he had passed away at 6:00am this morning! she had said that yesterday he was totally unresponsive...even when being bathed. so glad we saw him when we did on monday night. even if we went yesterday we would not have heard him speak. God, i feel, was definitely at work the night we went. deep in my heart i'm actually happy that my last moment with him was blowing kisses to eachother. ugh. tears.
i decide that tonight we should have pasta with sauce made the way gino taught me.
maaa... came down today to watch the boys so i could go to target alone. poppy drove down later in the power wagon and is leaving it for the parade tomorrow. unfortunately, abraham became ill while maaa was here and actually ended up becoming fevered while i was gone and puked while i was putting groceries away!!!
i love the look on every one of their faces!
limoncello, pasta, and fire in honor of our dear friend GINO whom we shared many a meal with.
even the parmesan/romano cheese is thanks to him. we used to grate our own cheese, which i disliked doing.
one night we had dinner with gino and he busted out this canned version from trader joe's. i told joshua that if it was good enough for gino, a true italian, then it was good enough for us:)))
a bottle of joshua's limoncello based on gino's recipe.
da boys.
joshua poured us all some vino as well.
then he found a bottle of limoncello made by gino himself!!!
he wrote down all the info on a label.
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getting ready to toast our friend.
we'll miss you GINO!!!
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so glad my whole family stayed to dine with us and share the moment.
salute.
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abe in poppy's glasses.
ice froze to the bottle.
this is the set up we always do when one of the kiddos has thrown up. papa was so out too.
little abey perked up and didn't act sick the rest of the night. he did have a mild fever though:(
i made levi pop corn and we read wacky wednesday.
mama and levi time.
***we will always remember gino in our hearts and pray for God's comfort for his grieving family and friends. his was a good man and will be greatly missed.***
