She helped her to take care of the burns on her legs and hands. She yelled back at her mother telling her that she hated her. After that night she made sure that both of their rooms were locked After her mother took the door off of it's hinges Stephanie begin to lock the doors.
One night she threatened to call the police so Marsha slept on the back porch. The next day she swore that she would burn the house down with both of them in the house. After that night Stephanie would fix her mother something to eat then just warmed it up in the microwave.
Most of the time Marsha never asked how Martha was. Martha had a small stroke . It took her awhile before she got her strength back up and after three years she was able to walk again.
Stephanie started seeing her grandmother's syringes disappearing then she started seeing needle marks on her mother's arms and knew her friends and her was using her grandmother's insulin syringes to get high on with illegal drugs.
She started seeing her mother bringing in the younger men into the house. She would go into her grandmother's room and sleep. When Stephanie was fourteen her mother Marsha was arrested in a drug raid and spent almost two years in a state rehab since it was her first time being arrested.
Stephanie helped the farmer's wife cleaning her house and learning how to can and even embroidery dollies, table clothes, pillow cases, and tee towels to sell at the farmer's market.
Everything that she could do to make money to pay the bills. With her grandmother Martha's social security check. She asked the farmer's wife if she could help her out by paying for an ad in the nearest town stating she would babysit one or two children.
She wasn't sure how much she should charge but she stated in the ad fifty dollars a week. it wasn't long before she had two little girls coming over five days a week. That extra one hundred a week really helped out.
She told the mother of the two little girls that she was already sixteen years old. Even with limited ability her grandmother helped with the two little girls.They were taken very good care. Stephanie feed them gave them a bath, played with them and even had the two little girls counting with pennies.
Their parents was extremely glad with their babysitter and hated when they had to be relocated out of town to find them jobs. Stephanie was abled to save some money although it wouldn't last long.