Okay, picture this… eight people – two moms (our family was LBGTQ+ long before it could safely be open), four sisters, and two nieces, living in a three-bedroom apartment in a two-family house with one bathroom. That’s a lot of estrogen for one bathroom. I mean seriously! I would get up between 4:30 and 5:00 a.m. so that I could get into the bathroom first.

I don’t remember what we were dressed for. And Becky and Crystal were not in this picture. Maybe Becky was taking the picture. Crystal was the perfect sleeping baby (it helped that I rocked her to sleep every night) and Kathy had colic and screamed half the night most nights, but she was cute so redeeming.