What did Izzy remember about being poor?

Izzy's family was poor when she was a child. She remembered celebrating her birthday two weeks late, because that was when they could afford a box of cake mix. She remembered always adding water to the milk to stretch it. She remembered the gladness when the food stamps came in and the shame of having to use them. She also remembered how her family could not afford school supplies when she was in the first grade. One morning she found a brand-new box of Crayons in her desk.