Support a Family in Crisis After House Fire

I just want to start by saying, for those who don’t know me, know I don’t ask for help. I refuse it. But I am swallowing my pride and ego, because I don’t know what else to do. Many of you have suggested creating one of these and I’ve gone back and fourth about it because I am just not like this… it’s hard for me to sit here and type out what’s going on, and ask for help, but unfortunately it is all I can do right now.

Saturday November 9th, I was downstairs and my two middle aged children were upstairs and they were supposed to be playing with their Alexa before bed.

I yelled up for my oldest son to come down and shut the window for me. I just had an MRI and I have some herniated discs and arthritis in my back and few other things, and I’ve been trying not to learn, twist or bend if I can help it.

They finally come running downstairs and tell me they started a fire in my bedroom. So I run upstairs to see that my bedroom door was locked and smoke was starting to pour out.

I got my kids out, and ran back inside because a smaller fire had been started in my daughter’s room, and I knew I could at least prevent that from spreading.

Thankfully it was just our bedroom that got the actual damage. But that also means, we’ve lost everything that’s super expensive.

I haven’t received child support in about 3 months and I am already struggling for Christmas as is, and now not having any place to sleep, with my back issues, is causing me so much anxiety.

My kids are sad because they want to be home, but our landlord has put us in a hotel up until Monday night only, and I have no idea what happens after that. We can’t afford hotel stays, and I have no idea when they will have everything ready for us to sleep in there. We have no where to go, it’s my fiancé, and our 4 kids. We are in low income housing and already have a hard time paying the rent. I am praying to god they don’t find a reason to evict us over this. Because we aren’t ready and don’t have a down payment for a home just yet.

I don’t know what I’m asking for. I am still so distraught, and in auto pilot. I’m just looking for some sort of Christmas miracle whatever that is, and I am so glad and lucky my kids are safe, and it was just that one bedroom. This could’ve been a lot worse, but what has happened is extremely devastating, and leaving us with not many options right before the holiday.

We will use the funds for hotel stays until we have another place, replacing what’s in our bedroom plus whatever ends up needing to be replaced in my other two kids bedrooms as the smoke travelled and leaked into their rooms. We won’t know the full extent of the damage until we get in there and check it out. Anything raised will also help for travel expenses to and from the hotel to my children’s school and any food we may need living at a hotel. Thank you all so much

anything helps ❤️