Just graduated I found I was pregnant. Daddy boy had another girlfriend at work who was also pregnant. Because she was working and I wasn't I was the girlfriend that got married. I took care of both babies and my husband and his girlfriend worked. At the time we lived in a three bedroom duplex out by the river. Money was very tight and I did everything I could think of to save money, including washing clothes in the bathtub to save Laundromat money.

The babies took all the money, and even with full awareness I came down pregnant six months after I gave birth. My husband took a part time job at night to save the money for the delivery leaving us alone until midnight every day. When his girlfriend came down pregnant again we knew we had to do something. It was time to move back home so we packed up our two babies and the five of us moved back to Sacramento. My husband is an electrician and he landed a job, his girlfriend tried but pregnant no one wants to hire you.

My parents gave us two rooms, one for the babies and the other room for us. We squeezed in. After our number twos were born my husband's girlfriend landed a job at the pharmacy. We were so poor it hurt. Today the kids are all in junior and senior high and once the kids went to school I started working and we could afford to move back out.

Money is still tight, we have a lifestyle that gives us a moderate living. We deal with our fair share of people that discriminate against us or the kids because of our lifestyle. If only people understood what all we had to do to keep our family intact, to pay our way, to raise nice kids. How we sleep is no one's business, from the very first day to this day we sleep the same way, side by side, mommies on the right and daddy on the left. I grew up like everyone else, and I live like no one else. We are a conservative church family, in a marriage that is big enough for three.