Oh she did,Susan,though she'd said that she was going to turn her life around,meaning to kick the habits of alcohol and drugs. By doing this,she'd taken all her children to church,making them sit in the pews while she held the 18 month old baby. The actual church that she'd visited wasn't the one in which she'd normally have gone to. So it seemed that whatever she did,or said,was unusual.
Like you say,a brainstorm.