"Baby," Tina and I said as we hugged our little Angie.

"I missed you so much," she said kissing us both.

"We missed you too baby doll," Tina said.

"You said you weren’t gonna be able to come home for the holiday."

"I know," she said smirking the same smirk that Bette makes, "I wanted to surprise you!"

"We’re so very happy and surprised!"

"How was your flight?"

"It was better than expected, Thomas didn’t annoy Maddie and I the whole flight this time."

"That Thomas, he’s still a trouble maker," I said and laughed.

"Of course," she said just as she heard footsteps on the stairs, "I think Josh and Sum heard me."

Joshua and Summer are our sixteen year olds. I was the birth mother to Summer, while Tina was the birth mother to Joshua. We used the same donor and inseminated at the same time. We had decided to go with a caucasian donor, so that the children would reflect Tina’s heritage. Joshua is thirteen days older and never hesitates to let Summer forget. He has Tina’s blond hair but piercing blue eyes which the girls at school seem to fall for. He is a musician, and plays guitar and piano in a band, Wilde Things. He always says the name needs work, but he seems to enjoy the attention he gets. He plays regular shows at The Planet with his cousins and aspires to be famous. He also helps shoot and edit his own music videos and music. He’s an average student who would rather write music than study. Tina and I get onto him about it, but his musical talents get the best of him.

Summer is most definitely an artist. She paints, does photography, works with metals, she’s amazing, she does it all. She aspires one day take over running my West Hollywood Gallery. She is a lot more tan than Joshua, with brunette hair and brown eyes. She’s an above average student, who excels in all her classes. She interns at the gallery a few days out of the week and during the summer, shadowing my curator. I have sense moved James halfway across the world to my Paris gallery. He was more than happy to do it, as his wife’s family are of french decent and a lot of her family still lived there.