i finally started a project i've been meaning to do since christmas... scanning my mom's collection of family photos. this is one of me and my mom that i keep coming back to:



i find my mom's expression really hard to read in this one. i wonder what she must be thinking at the time the picture was taken. i think about my mom at my age, with 3 kids between the ages of 4 and 9, and it blows my mind. i think about my parents having a kid and starting a family at the age of 16 and 19, and that also blows my mind. i don't know how we didn't all starve, or how they managed not to leave one of us on top of the car while driving off, or how they managed to keep us off the streets and away from drugs (neither of which were ever very far away at all) and keep us safe. it's just... mind blowing.