So funny I cried...

Had a long day today... went to the Aquarium with DS and 100 other, mostly very well behaved children (the occassional stranglehold not withstanding) and 2 other lovely moms (one of whom is setting up the perfect fantasy band - The Suspicious Moms. I just loved it! 45+ rocker moms, belting it out and being right, can't get anything by those suspicious moms...) Anways, despite everything being as it should, I came home exhausted, it's just the energy of those 100 teens is wearying.

And then I came across this perfectly named site - Awkward Family Photos.  It had so many great images, that I was literally crying with laughter, so I'm sharing some of them now with you.  Some of them were just so revealing of the family dynamics,  others you wondered why anyone would set them up and still others were just so painfully,  truly funny.  Visit and enjoy

beautiful images!

I can't capture any of them, so you're going to have to go directly to Zena Holloway's site, but she has so many dreamy, beautiful images. She specializes in underwater photography and there are just so many perfect images to chose from, but the one of the baby with his head above the water but swimming like a small elephant... just gorgeous!

I read this article in the new york times about Leonard Limoy and his photography. I hope I can get this image uploaded. I loved his site! There was something playful and beautiful and just visual, about these women you never usually see (without lots of coverings).

I remember a few years ago when we went to Barcelona (what a fabulous city it is!) and there was a decent enough beach there and I went with my son but the thing that caught my eye was that there were these groups of grandmothers there, the Spanish grandmotherly type you usually expect to see in black tops and skirts, just sitting at the waters edge, chatting happily and completely comfortable and topless. And I loved them for it. One of the younger men sneered when I told him about it, saying well he wouldn't want to see them. And I looked at him and said, they weren't doing it for you, they were doing it for themselves. That year I bought my first bikini, well ever, I think. And I wore it, thinking of them, and wearing it for myself, and loving the tan it gave me.

I will definitely buy the Nimoy book on the Full Body Project when it comes out!