These are my twins.  My kids are a very important part of my art.  I must say they are my number one inspiration for painting.  They make my life a living h*** at times (sorry for any virgin ears in the audience) but at the same time I wouldn't replace what they have done for me for anything in the world.  Yes, I know little newborns (in the paintings anyways, now they are ravaging toddlers) actually doing something for their mom other than giving her many sleepless nights!  But they really have.  Having them really brought up a lot of hard repressed memories from my childhood of being moved from town to town, parent to parent, and country, to cousin, to friends.  Because I never had a stable home or family situation my twins really brought out the inner mommy in me.  They where born premature and itty bitty.  All I wanted to do was take care of them and give them more than I ever dreamed of having.  I guess it really helped me because I finally realized that no matter how unstable my childhood was I could learn from it and make my kids life better because of it.  It really made a bad situation into a really good one.  Over the course of my art career there is no doubt you will be seeing not only paintings of my twins, but of my older daughter Monica who started it all!