Our precious family’s life changed forever September 25th due to Hurricane Helene because our home was demolished by her! We are now sleeping on couches of family members for the most part and eating canned food while our kids’ ability to thrive has been shot out the window! I mean that was OUR HOME, what we’d worked for, no one could take that away, so I thought! Now here we are struggling just to get through hour by hour and sometimes minute by minute! It’s an awful mess, and to see our kids suffer is the most heartbreaking thing my spouse and I have ever encountered! NO KIDDING! 

That’s why I am on every.org asking for donations if you can afford to spare anything at all, we would all 5 be so very grateful, and if nothing else, keep us in your prayers that we can stop dreading the pain and me having to remind my kids,  This Too Shall Pass! They don’t want to hear that though, as much as I tell them we must look at the cup as half full instead of the other way around even though it’s so hard for my spouse, Jeff, and I to keep our tough game faces on and be the strong ones for them when they are the ones who are tough as NAILS! 

We have a FEMA application in, but the process is moving as slow as a snail, and the inspector has yet to reach back out to us, and I am so frustrated because we are borrowing from Peter to pay Paul, and bumming Nana and Popop’s couch has got to be hard on all of us, yet we are grateful to have them welcome us right on in like it’s nothing and it’s good to have them help me when mine and Jeff’s will to keep on keepin’ on is about gone. 

We are out of cash, and after Jeff’s layoff due to the substantial decrease in his jobs’ hour cut backs, we’ve been living paycheck to paycheck from his unemployment. There’s only 3 businesses in town that offer supports and resources to families in need, but we’ve already used their resources up over a month ago right after the Hurricane caved in our home and our house became condemned! 

So, if you’re able to help, we’d really be grateful, and if you can’t that’s okay, too. We hate to have to reach out and network and get our story out there, but sometimes sucking in the pride and doing what’s best for all 5 of us and especially for our children’s sake is what matters. That’s why we have came to this site here in hopes of finding some support, and we really appreciate all of you! 

God Bless and hopefully building this fundraiser will increase our will to want to live and thrive with some hope in behind it to push us and drive us harder to do the right things for the right reasons!