It seems that every summer I end up working a lot – be it with booking a lot of family photo sessions or working on a new rebranding project or starting up a new photography spin-off business like my boudoir photography website.  This year I made a point to be smarter – I did a lot of photoshoots at the end of spring and early summer and a few while my kids were at at sleep-away camp for the last four weeks.  But now that they are home I really want to enjoy summer with them because after all – who knows how many more summers they will want to hang out with me?:)  I am cool and all but in a few years they may want to spend more time with their friends than with their super awesome Mom.  So while I have handful of family photoshoots scheduled between now and the start of the new year I am taking it easy the rest of the summer.  We don’t have any grandiose plans – just a family trip to Smokey Mountains and a couple short trips to the beach.  I realize that we don’t need to go somewhere exotic to have a great summer – so we are planning to go out for lunches and to the movies, do a trip or two to the city and enjoy having a lazy summer.

And yesterday was one of those days – where we did not venture very far but had the best time… And all of that took place in Coney Island!   I used to live in Brooklyn so that whole area is not new to me and my kids have been there a couple of times with us and my parents.  But the friends we went exploring never been to Coney Island before and I was thrilled to show them what I think is a stereotypical NYC summer day.  We had corn dogs and hot dogs at The Original Nathans (SOOOOO GOOD!!!), did lots and lots of rides (well the kids did while the Moms watched on), had funnel cake and soft serve on the boardwalk and swam in the ocean.   We all got a lit too much sun and were EXHAUSTED by the time we got home but all of us agreed that it was the best day!!