2. Wait until the last warm day of the year to do it.
3. Scramble to find clothing and shoes to coordinate family.
4. Realize that you still need to go shopping.
5. The night before pictures explain plan to patient husband.
6. The next morning the patient husband must leave for work at 6:00 a.m.
7. Rush through morning routine without husband and miss him.
8. Don't forget that it is also picture day for the kids at school.
9. Comb daughter's hair but don't do anything fancy.
10. Complain about moms that do fancy things with their daughter's hair.
11. Bathe baby and preschooler.
12. Curl preschooler's hair and feel good about being a mom that did something fancy with your daughter's hair.
13. Drop off preschooler - late - but with curls.
14. Take baby and scout out location for family photo.
15. Go to the mall to find missing items.
16. Make last-second-desperate-purchases.
17. Thank the kind lady that tells you your son is missing one of his shoes.
18. Retrace steps looking for shoe. Don't actually find the shoe.
19. Leave immediately to pick-up kindergartner.
20. Clean-up mess in kitchen, make lunch, then regret bathing baby before his lunch.
21. Bathe baby again.
22. Pick-up preschooler from play group.
23. Be happy that preschooler's tantrum ends with her stomping off to her bed where she takes a much needed nap.
24. Don't be surprised by 2nd grader that REALLY doesn't want to take a family picture.
25. Help bathe kindergartner and get out girl's clothes and shoes.
26. Threaten 2nd grader. Tell him he can either cooperate and get ready or be grounded for the remainder of the week.
27. Listen to preschooler tell you she just put a very large and strange hole in her tights.
28. Be grateful you purchased two pairs of tights earlier that day.
29. Rush to meeting place with nice brother that has agreed to serve as photographer.
30. Pass tissue back to kindergartner that suddenly has a cracked and bleeding lip.
31. Pass another tissue, because it's really bleeding!
32. Pay for unexpected "entrance fee" at designated location.
33. Park in front of locked gate that the attendant assured you would be unlocked.
34. Fix preschooler's hair that is no longer curly and must in some way be restrained.
35. Do your best to keep kids corralled and baby smiling.
36. Wonder why you did not insist that all kids use the bathroom before going to a location without bathrooms.
37. Wipe baby's runny nose between every four pictures.
38. Smile.
39. Keep smiling.
40. Remind children of bribes you have promised them for smiling.
41. Try to force kids to smile.
42. Remember that you are outnumbered.
43. Concede that you are not above begging.
44. Recognize when the baby has reached his limit.
45. Suggest turning him upside down because he likes that.
46. Feel good about being right and feel foolish about thinking that it would last longer that .23 seconds.
47. Surrender!
48. Finally, be thankful you got anything worth keeping.
