humbling experience. yea! i m so excited for you. thank you. you re so stoic. i saw a smile for a second, but you re kind of hard to read. i m at peace. i feel great. i have peace. so, go give those babies a big hug for me. oh, i will. to see lacy break the generational hold meth has had on her family, to decide that it stops with her, it s the best possible outcome. and now she finally gets to bring her girls home. hi, mama. what do those girls mean to you? everything. everything. they mean the world to me. did you curl your hair? i did. you like it? i like your hair, too. every time my heart beats, they re the love of my life.
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a place of her own, and finally feels ready to be a mom again. she recently filed a petition to regain physical custody of her kids. and with hopes of winning them back, she s created a perfectly pink bedroom in her home. until her court date, lacy gets by with weekly visits with her girls. hi! her mother brandy meets us at a local park. hi, nice to meet you. hi, girls! hi. how you guys doing? good. yeah? this is madison and this is brooklyn. how excited were y all to see mom today? really excited! brandy has seen her daughter come a long way, but it s been a rough road. brandy, how bad was lacy when you took the kids? oh, lisa, she was horrible. she was skinny, malnourished. i didn t like the people she was running with. and then when i didn t hear from
her for a long time, i thought did she overdose somewhere? is she did and i don t know about it? i wonder if she didn t get some kind of stability going on in her and the girls life that i was going to step in and she didn t do it. so i went and filed the petition for guardianship. i was trying to safe them from going to the state. how do you know lacy is ready to have the girls full-time? she proved me wrong. she proved me wrong. i didn t think she had whatever it took in her to rise above every bit of it. and look at her now. she made sure she s got everything. i know she is ready. lacy was telling me about her family history and how much addiction there is on your side and her father s side. she also said she wants to break the cycle now for her girls. i thought that was pretty impressive. that s very mature and very wise, very wise. because it needs to be broken. she s got so much potential and
decade. when did you start using drugs? when i was about 13. i started with weed. i kept falling asleep at these parties. people were like try this and you won t ever miss another party. i had refused it several times at this point but that time was like the last time. i said i m not going to miss another party and i smoked it for the first time. were you addicted immediately? immediately the craving was there. for lacy the drug wasn t foreign. her grandmother used for 17 years and after quitting passed away from meth related health problems and her father not only used meth, he smoked it with her. my 18th birthday we sat in a back room and we got high that night. my god. yeah. there wasn t a well, she s not allowed or don t give it to her. that never happened to me. by the time it was all said and done i ended up an iv drug user