Seventh of ten

Ten girls; no boys.  The first was born in 1930, the last in 1955.  Mama was 16 when she married, 17 when her first was born.  Our parents grew up in Minnesota, had five children there before moving to Oregon where the last five of us were born.  I don't recall Mama ever mentioning any skating forays but I know that Daddy did a bit of ice hockey in his youth. 
There was an ice rink just blocks from the house I grew up in on 6th Street, in Eugene.  Many stories of the fabulous skating costumes Mama sewed for my older sisters, who evidently were stars at the rink, held my wonder.  That rink was long gone by the time I strapped on my first pair of sidewalk roller skates in the mid 1950's.  I didn't ice skate until my adult years and only then for a brief period. 

Here is a picture of me with six of my sisters.  They came all the way to Portland to observe my 60th birthday in March, 2010.  Here were are at Oak's Park.  One is absent because she couldn't make the trip and sadly, two have passed on (the oldest and the youngest).