Help get my family back together
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- Never in a million years did I think I would be asking my family and friends for help for my family but in a matter of a week my entire life got pulled out from underneath me. It started when Lyla was sick with fever for several weeks, her school suggested we withdrawal her from Kindergarten so Jason lost his job at Amazon and it put us into a severe financial hardship. He continued doing Grubhub at night but unfortunately it just wasn't enough and we started getting really behind on bills. Then I had a bout of sicknesses which led to me being out of work for several days without pay, that made things even worse. We were trying to catch up on rent and notified our property manager. She told us she would work with us and give us time be able to catch up but she "got tired of waiting" so that option was taken away from us. The property manager came to my house and asked me to vacate the premises which I agreed to then a few days later I got a notification from Pasco County Sheriff that we had 24 hours to vacate the premises or they would confiscate everything in my house. This meant I had to finish packing my entire house, get a moving truck, and storage unit in a day while wearing a boot because I broke a bone in my ankle just a week before all of this happening.
At this point I thought things couldn't get much worse until I get a call from my office manager at work asking where I was when SHE told me to take time off until Monday to "get things situated" however due to a miscommunication in a text message from the night before and my phone dying while at the hotel I was terminated from the job I loved for the last 3 years. So while I'm sitting in a hotel with my entire family after getting evicted from our home I get notified that now I don't have a job anymore either. How do you get a new home with no job and no way to earn money at this point?? I was absolutely devastating and have never felt so lost in my entire life. I had no point other to leave the kids with their grandma and take my 3 cats to my moms and leave the life I knew and loved behind in the dust. There isn't any room at my mom's for us so since last week Jason and I have been doing Grubhub and I started working at Instacart just to try to make enough money to hopefully eat, get gas for deliveries and find a hotel to sleep in every night. With the cost of hotels now though it's been tough and there have been a few nights we couldn't afford one and had to sleep in the car at a rest area. I feel like I'm living in the twilight zone shopping and delivering for other people literally all day just to hope we have enough to sleep somewhere safe. Luckily the kids are with grandma and they are safe but I know this is affecting them and I just want us all back together again. Not being with my kids everyday is tearing me up emotionally and mentally and I don't know how much longer I can keep doing this but I don't see a solution to the problem because no one can afford to get us into a new house with the costs of everything right now.
I never wanted to go this route because of my pride but I miss my kids and want us all back together again. I miss our Friday pizza nights and Lyla yelling at us for no reason everyday, lol. I know Jason and I haven't been perfect but neither of us deserve this. This is definitely the lowest point I've ever been in my life and I have cried more in the last week then my entire life. I miss my "normal life" and just want to get it back together again. Since we are spending what we make everyday just to not have to sleep in a rest area there's no way we're going to be able to save anything for a new place so it's like everyday we're just spinning in the mouse wheel trying to get to another day with nothing to look forward too. That is why I'm putting my pride to the side and asking for any help possible, I just want my family back together.
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Stephanie Williams
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Tampa, FL