Where do I begin? We have fallen on hard times every year, as I know so many of us have, but we are in the tightest spot I have ever found ourselves in.

We got our taxes back after a hard year and used that to finally find relief and pay off our debt, so there went our cushion. I saved back a couple thousand, but little did we know, our van motor was gonna blow after we just replaced the battery and alternator. We didn't even get the struts fixed on the van before the motor blew. The struts were estimated at $800 plus, and the motor is estimated to be $10k for a motor on a van that has high miles.

I've been having to get the kids back and forth to school while working with a rental for 8 days, which has run us up to $800 and counting. We missed out on our warranty by miles. We have now encountered the dryer breaking, costing $350 to get it fixed. The oven, which is propane, has broken, so we have had no oven until the appliance people can help us find a propane oven under $2,000, as that is outrageous.

We are trying to quickly get out of this rental car and make a decision of either replacing this motor on a van we are upside down in (meaning we still owe) or trade it in as is and add this to a new car payment, needing so much money down to end up with an outrageous car payment. Giovanni's car won't be making it much longer than a year, and our plan was to get him a new vehicle.

We are in the tightest pickle with the clock ticking, and I just am at a loss for words. When it rains, it pours, and with our 4th baby coming in September, this stress and chaos for the first time, as we are no stranger to hard times, of not knowing what we are going to do is really starting to feel scary.

I don't know how much this GoFundMe will actually help or if this is even worth doing, who am I to ask for such a big ask when literally everybody is struggling. I guess I am just going out on a whim in hopes that if anyone can help, it would not be forgotten. It has taken me to really humble myself to even start this GoFundMe, as I am the person who just figures it out at all costs, and I think I have met my match.

We are going to make it, how is the question and answer that has stumped us almost 2 weeks..

Thanks in advance if you can.