This is a picture of my sister, Nina, and her son, Eliot, resting in Nonna's cordoruoy chair the morning before we went to her wake and funeral.

Here are some photos of us, the immediate family, while we waited for the limo to come. My sisters and I rode with our father and Aunt Bernie, and our husbands, who were the pallbearers along with Eliot and Andrew, took a couple of cars because we'd need a ride back from the restaurant where we were going for lunch after the burial.

Nonna's casket weighed over four hundred pounds. Andrew grimaced when he lifted it.

Malcolm tying Andrew's tie:


Me hugging Nina's husband, Paul:


Andrew and Gianna on the couch:


Waiting around outside:


The limo driver with Aunt Bernie:


My father's wife, Pam, rode to the funeral home with a cousin; my mother rode with another cousin.