It was Father's Day, after all. Exactly one month post-Mother's Day.
You know, The Day where no one thought to say "We should take this opportunity to document a Mother-Daughter moment on film."
Novel thought around these here parts.
So last night... late last night when Lani is crying because she's tired, Raegan is running around like a monkey on crack because she's over tired, and the rest of us look like we slept in our clothes because we'd officially been in them for 12 hours, I had the genius idea to finally take that long overdue mother-daughter picture.
In front of the AC window unit, random box of stuff to give away, and half throw together entertainment center no less.
What can I say, when I do genius, I do it right. *yeah yeah. zip it*
So after a round of trial and error photo-ops...of which I can't show you because Blogger just doesn't want to download my pictures...
Here is my favorite.

I have one escapee. a monkey on my back. and two older sisters who fi-na-lly gave me genuine smiles simultaneously.
But only because Thing One and Thing Two's picture antics are cracking them up.
But hey. It IS a documented *real* moment in the life of Christin, The Mother. And really, you don't get more "real" than this chaotic pic.