A place to call home

Hello everybody. My name is Shanna and I have 3 beautiful sons Zander 7, Lucas 5, and Logan 3. We are starting a fundraiser because we recently lost everything we have. It started months ago. We driving down the road and an 18 wheeler pulled out blocking our lane. We tried to avoid it by turning down a side road but unfortunately we didn’t see the fuel truck and we were going too fast to stay in our lane. We hit the side of the fuel truck and it caused us to go head first into a tree totaling out our vehicle. We had just bought this vehicle and saved and I had walked to work there and back to get our vehicle we had. Our prior vehicle was crushed from a tree falling on it. So we only had liability at the time of the wreck because I couldn’t afford full coverage and even though it was the 18 wheelers fault, he drove off and it happened so fast we could not get any tag information. So we were left with nothing again 

Back to walking to work I go.

Shortly after this I was attacked by a pit bull and caused a lot of damage to my left shin and took a chunk out of the back of my right calf. I could not walk for months. I hadn’t been at my job long so I couldn’t get any paid leave or anything. They ended up replacing me. During this time I went through all my credit cards and maxed them out to keep our lights on and feed our kids. But without anything coming in, I fell behind on our rent. I tried getting help from all programs in my area but they either no longer had funds or never called me back. We ended up being evicted so here we are with no vehicle, and no home, and I had no family to call for help because I grew up in foster care. We lived in the middle of nowhere and we were out in the rain. (Yes we were evicted on the only day it had rained in a month) we couldn’t take much and had no where to go and anything else was ruined by the rain. We just lost the only home my kids have known. We lost everything. And remind you I am just healing over a dog attack and just starting to walk again. 

Lucky for us somebody helped by giving a ride. I didn’t know where to even say to go when they asked me where to go. Can you even imagine? So I located us to Tallapoosa because at least my oldest two sons could stay at their biological father’s house. 

But Logan wasn’t so lucky. So for the past month or so Logan and I have been in and out of hotel rooms walking and looking for work. I was finally blessed with a job. It’s a dish washing job but I didn’t even care. I am great full for the opportunity to see a little light. So now I walk to work and I hand wash dishes for 12 hours a day sometimes and then I walk with my son Logan to find a place to lay our head until 11 am. (Checkout time) 

Well last week I had another blessing. We finally got a trailer. Somebody said we could live there and clean it and fix it up. I almost cried. And it is only a 15 minute walk to where I work. I was so happy for our empty dirty trailer. So now I need one last blessing. We have no furniture in our home and I am really missing my two oldest boys. Logan is missing them too. They were his best friends and all he knows. We have had a few angels along the way that I would have never met if it wasn’t for my dishwashing job. And I am so great full for all the help I have been given. I just want my child to have a home. All my children to have a home. And even though we have this place, it’s empty. My kids lost everything except for a bag of clothes a piece. All their toys and games just gone. Their beds, gone. Everything that they had. And my oldest boy, bless his heart, understands a little of what happened and we my youngest ask for their toys he always has to tell them they are just things. We will get more things. He has always been good about feeling when I’m sad or stressed. He is sad too but he won’t show it. He says it will be ok mom. And asks me for hugs. He is there for his little brothers too. 

So we just need some furniture and a vehicle. My dishwashing job has helped us survive but I do not make much. It will take forever for me to save up and pay bills and get a vehicle and furnish this trailer. And even when I find free furniture online, I have no way to get it. 

I have never been one to ask for help. I work hard for everything I have and I always have faith. I’m just asking for a little help to keep my faith. To have my kids back together. To teach them that there are good people left and even though bad things happened to us, we aren’t bad people and I will never give up. Just like I never want them to give up. I didn’t know how much to put for an amount. And it doesn’t matter how much you bless us with. We will be great full. Even if it is .25 cents. That’s still .25 cents in the right direction. The faith of a mustard seed right? Thank you so much for taking time to read about us. 

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Thanks for reading. We love and appreciate all of you even if you can’t financially help, if you just keep faith in us and send up a prayer or say a kind word or keep believing that we are going to get through this, it would be appreciated too. 

With love, 

Our little family