for all practical purposes, incapable of getting it together

One might think that portrait-taking with two toddlers and a person with significant brain-damage would be a challenge. Au contraire. The challenge is actually to get my otherwise intelligent seventeen-year-old brother to look at the mothereffing camera (and do so in an un-emo way).





the final draft/the best we could do:

For some reason we "had to" pose for a certain number of shots. Mom wanted to get one of herself and Dad with Eoin and Finola, but they were in need of naps and having melt-downs (E and J not M and D). So Neil and I took one for the team, and sat for this shot: