My wife got laid off from a job in 2024, and got laid off from two separate jobs in 2025 - all through no fault of her own. It seemed like as soon as we got caught up financially, another hit came through to try and decimate our little family. We endured. We scraped and scrounged. We cut out every extra expense. We sold personal items. We made it happen, month after month, over and over again. Sometimes we had help from gracious people and organizations, and other times we did not. By God's grace, through action and intense prayer, we made it work. We have put food on the table for our kids and kept our bills paid.

The most frustrating thing about all of this is that I am currently working the best job I've ever worked in my life, for a salary that would have sounded like a dream to me 20 years ago. Sadly, this seems to currently be a detriment. We cannot receive food or housing assistance because, in the eyes of the system, we "make too much." We are right above the level of receiving assistance, but below the level of self sufficiency, even though I am working hard Every. Single. Day.

I feel like God has great things coming. Jen is currently potentially interviewing for a great job, I'm hoping for a promotion this year. She just got her sub license and has begun substitute teaching. We're going to claim our coming blessings now, but that will not save us from the oncoming train of homelessness we have approaching us this week. I have explored every avenue, approached organization after organization. Nothing. I absolutely cannot be out on the street with two babies and no where to go. The kids have had a bad case of RSV the past month, and with Jen not being able to substitute teach during the break, the financial burden of ER visits, doctors visits, and medication has become too much to overcome.

It may seem trivial to some. It may seem like, "Oh they just haven't spent their money wisely." or "Oh, you'll be fine, have you tried...?" We've tried it. We've cut every extra expense that is not a core bill. We buy nothing for ourselves except on the RAREST occasions. We have become smarter with money in this crisis than we ever have been in our lives. All for nothing. We are continuously coming up short each month.

This is all-consuming. It's hard not to feel like a failure. It's hard not to feel like this is my fault. I talked way too much last month about the life insurance policy I have through work and how much that money would help Jen and the boys. So much so that it scared Jen horrendously, and I scared myself. I had a full breakdown in my bedroom in my wife's arms. That kind of thing happens and that's real life. We talked it out, and I'm doing my best.

Please pray for our little family. Please take the time in your day to think about the people around you who may be suffering through the greatest battles they've ever fought in silence. I will continue to fight for these children to have a roof over their heads for every second until I am in the ground. We will continue to pray for help from wherever we can get it.

Be well everyone, and God bless.