Killion Photography

One of my favorite lines in a movie is from “My BIg, Fat, Greek Wedding”.

Toula Portokalos: Ma, Dad is so stubborn. What he says goes. “Ah, the man is the head of the house!”
Maria Portokalos: Let me tell you something, Toula. The man is the head, but the woman is the neck. And she can turn the head any way she wants.

Here’s the trick ladies..

So the guys in our lives need to feel they are in charge….the head of the house. They don’t like nagging wives, girlfriends, etc. always trying to tell them what to do and when to do it. This is not anything new. But when I first got married, I wasn’t about to let some guy be the head over me after living on my own for 6 years.  Jay isn’t bossy and never tried to “Lord it over me” but for some reason, I just felt like I was more qualfied to be in charge. Let me tell you about some of those fights! If you ever want to know what happened to our first vacuum cleaner…

Anyways, I soon realized that if I still wanted my husband to be fond of me, I had better find a better method to… well I guess you could say, “get my way” at times.  So I called upon the wisdom of Maria Portokalos. Ah! I realized that I could be the neck which is physically lower than the head but actually stronger and more powerful with all the control it has over where the head decides to go. SCORE! So for all you girls out there that can’t stand it when you hear sermons in church about how the husband should “rule” over the wife, please remember how God designed the body and though he may be the head, YOU are the neck. You play an argueably bigger role than the head.  Don’t tell your husbands this (let’s just keep letting them “think” they’re making the decisions),  just quietly and patiently steer and turn the head without it even realizing it!  And everyone thinks that we’ve never had a woman president. ;)

I’ve had a lot of seniors lately. I seriously LOVE seniors. They are so full of life and dreams and will do pretty much anything you ask.  This was one of my favorite all time shoots. She was SO much fun to shoot. I had the MOST fun (another quote from all time fav movie “Shag”!