Words of Wisdom:

ON THE JOB TRAINING
I sat there in bed and I unwrapped her, and I just couldn't wait. Everybody was gone. I was 18 years old. This was new. And I was going at this on my very own. So I took all of her little clothes off of her, and unwrapped her blanket, and counted her little toes, and her little fingers, little tiny fingernails and little toenails -- they're amazing. And this beautiful pink skin. And I turned her over, and I turned her over. The nurse came in, and she said, "What are you doing?" I says, "I'm looking for the washing and care instruction tag. It's gone." I said, "There's no instructions." And she said, "You're gonna find out the hard way." (Laughs). And I did.

SURVIVAL STRATEGY
You can tell them to clean their room. I just never went upstairs to look and see what they did; I just said, "Hey, I'm washing clothes; if there's anything up there, throw it down. I can't wash what I can't find." So I'd go through the kitchen to the laundry room and start the machines; I'd come back through the kitchen ... I couldn't get through the kitchen door, because they had dumped -- over the balcony, down into the kitchen doorway -- a pile of clothes as tall as I was. They heard me. And they hear you, and they just got their own agenda.