Saving Aesha – CNN.com

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Saving Aesha – CNN.com.

my god.. reading the article and watching the video stirred up all sorts of emotions. What a truly inspiring woman.

Our trip to New York/New Jersey

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As is the case every other year, we trek it down to NJ for our company’s xmas party. And as is always the case, we drive down because we bring our kids with us. It has always made for some good times and thankfully the weather was fantastic. Always great to get away even if only for a few days. In our case we made it a nice 4 day weekend. The weather was great… Downtown NY on friday night was fantastic… We shopped, shopped, shopped… Not really my doing but ‘eh, oh, what r u gonna do?’… We are at the mercy of the queen of shopping; my wife! Lol. Apparently there were too many bargains to pass on.. Apparently. Lol. Anyway while I waited and waited and waited in the various malls we hit, it allowed me to start on my autobiography I’ve always been wanting to write ;). Thank god for my blackberry. It’s gonna be a good one!

Today was a day for tradition…

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Today at the break of dawn (any time before 9am on a saturday is the break of dawn for me)…I headed out to my mom’s to help with making homemade sausage. I had suggested that we begin this process at 9am… But noooo… Had to get there early… Gawd… Mothers… Anyway I get there as promised for 730am and I see that my godmother is there as well and they had just begun! What the hellz!!! When exactly did they get started? There is some prep time involved.. It turns out that my mom did all the leg work last night. How sweet. Always looking out for her kids ;). My job is simple.. I handle shoving the meat into the machine and turning. I have been doing this for years and I am a pro at it. We were done in no time.. I had my son, Fabrizio, help as well.. Father, son bonding time… Unfortunately my daughter, Dahlia, had an early morning soccer practice and could not be there from the beginning…the plan was that she’d come right after practice and help us finish off. That was the plan.. It didn’t work out because we had such a well oiled machine going that we finished at 9am… 30 minutes before Dahlia got there. Needless to say she was not a happy camper when she got there. I did feel bad because I wanted her to experience this too.. This is one tradition I want to keep alive… The parents are getting older and its time to take over.. Next year, my place, my time ;)… And Dahlia will be involved as well.

freshly fried

freshly fried

the 'after'

the ‘after’

the 'before'

the ‘before’

the machine

the machine

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