Help us keep our home!

For those who don’t know me, I’m Jessica, mother to these two beautiful, amazing children, Mila (5) and Aaden (14). It’s with complete humility that I’m begging for some help. I’ve been out of work due to medical issues since I was 1 month pregnant with Mila. We were struggling like everyone else in this economy on one income, but their father, Donny, worked very hard to make sure we had everything we needed. Unfortunately, in July, he went into heart failure, and almost died. He hasn’t been able to recover enough to return to work, and has been in and out of the hospital since then. My dear father passed away while Donny was in the hospital in July, and I was devastated. He lived far away, and between my health problems and financial difficulties, I wasn’t able to make it to his funeral.

Donny eventually was stable enough to come home, but we still had no income, and were surviving off of the modest savings we accumulated for a little while. We lost our phones in November because we couldn’t afford them. My beloved Aunt Sue passed away from cancer before Christmas, which was really hard on all of us, especially the kids who were so close to her, and she always made sure they knew she loved them so much.

Then on February 15th I had a hernia repair surgery, which was an extremely painful and difficult recovery. I’m still not fully recovered, but Donny did his best to help take care of me, and the kids while I was going through the worst of it. Then he had to go back into the hospital for a little while for gallbladder issues. His heart isn’t strong enough for surgery to have that removed, so he got a temporary cholytube inserted to hold him over until he is able to have surgery. He had a host of other issues, and finally came home again about a week ago.

This brings us to the circumstances that triggered my desperate plea for help. Since we had limited funds and no income, I missed a few months rent. I received a notice in the door today stating that we are being evicted, and have a court date coming up in a couple weeks. In order to resolve the matter and avoid eviction, I have to come up with around $6,000. I’m asking for more help because we still owe rent in the meantime for April, and in the future, as well as money for utilities, and whatever the kids need, clothes, shoes, etc. because they are growing so fast. Plus we need gas and car insurance to be able to go to our frequent doctors appointments, some are an hour drive each way.

I absolutely hate having to ask for help. I’m normally a very private person, and if it weren’t for my children, I wouldn’t be asking anyone for anything. However, the only option I have is to ask for help. My children are so awesome, and they have been through SO much, especially recently, and I want to give them the normalcy and stability they deserve and need. If we were to lose our home, the only one Mila knows, I don’t know what would happen to us, or where we would end up, but I wouldn’t forgive myself if I didn’t do every single thing I could to save our happy home for them.

I'm also applying for assistance and trying to find other sources of financial help as well, and if it turns out that I’m able to find the money we need to avoid eviction elsewhere, I will close this fundraiser. I know a LOT of incredible people who, like me, would do whatever they could to help someone in need out, if they could, and I’m desperately begging for your help for my kids. I could really use the peace of mind your help could provide, and to be able to focus on getting healthy again, and helping Donny get better too, instead of stress adding to our health problems. I’m praying for a miracle! Any amount you can give to help my children stay in our home, and not uproot them when they’ve already been through so much recently, would mean more to me than I could ever put in words. May God bless you all. Thank you so much for your time, support, kindness and love.

I have a CashApp if that’s more convenient or you’d prefer to send it that way: $AadenMila