How It All Goes Down
- Mom gets another teaching job.
- This job is a lot like the last one: Mom has trouble writing lesson plans and disciplining students.
- Once a week, Lori, Brian, and Jeannette basically have to drag Mom out of bed to go to work.
- However, Mom is finally making money. She buys electric heaters and a refrigerator and food to put in it.
- But it doesn't last. The money runs out sooner than it should, because Dad takes it to the bars.
- Mom won't give the money to the kids for safekeeping, so the family regresses into poverty once again.