One of my favorite family portraits it’s my mom with her 11 brothers and sisters, a real jersey shore Italian family this photo here is from the mid 40s imagine feeding 12 kids three times a day well my grandmother Virginia and my grandpa Joe did just in the morning two dozen eggs two loaves of bread 2 gallons of milk probably 3 pounds of bacon while they were eating breakfast my grandmother was getting their lunch ready for school 12 lunches , I always talk about my other grandfather my dad‘s father Captain Tony being a wild crazy gangster which was true, this other grandpa I had grandpa Joe, had a little café rooming house in Elizabeth New Jersey he also had one of those back rooms where he had business meetings I remember in the 60s going down the Jersey shore and partying with all my aunts uncles and cousins they were the greatest times and now I have over 100 cousins I am in touch with most of them through Facebook which is great