Sitting on a bed in an Anchorage hotel room, Ally Shangin put face paint on her 2-year-old daughter. Lola grinned and touched the green and blue on her forehead and the red whiskers on her cheeks.
“I was keeping her busy!” Shangin laughed.
Their room at the Wingate hotel was crowded. Shangin’s partner, Garrett Kashatok, sat on the second bed as their oldest daughter, 9-year-old Katelynn, played nearby with her two other young siblings. Toys, clothes and strollers piled up around them…