She had their futures to think of and had no intention of letting a little thing like buying clothes destroy what little good fortune came out of the mess that Thomas had made of their lives.
Her decision to buy used clothes at Goodwill was equally practical. It didn’t make any sense to buy new clothes that he would only wear for a few days at best. “Besides,” she thought to herself, “Most children don’t mind or care about wearing hand-me-downs. And that’s all he is really. Just a big, overgrown baby.”
She thought about the time she woken up and discovered that he had gone to bed wearing two of Bobby’s clean diapers under his underwear. She had turned over in her sleep and put her hand on his crotch to find it heavily padded with cloth diapers.