Help Support The Kriss Family After Their Loss

I’m reaching out to my community this evening, asking you all for some support needed this holiday season after the sudden and unexpected death of my father.

I am So thankful for all of you who are reading or sharing this right now. For those of you who have gone through it know these circumstances are hard to accept and what’s even harder to accept is defeat. My Dad was this huge kind, child like, compassionate soul, a funny man whose main purpose seemed to make as many people smile as possible daily. He would sun himself in the mornings take walks around the neighborhood in the afternoons and for all of you who might of seen or talked to this casually dressed Dad with his favorite Dodger hat on. He’d stand by the mail boxes asking those who came by to trade his bills for yours bills. He’d light up if what he said made anyone’s face soften. So Serious, he was not! Unfortunately serious talks about what the mortgage payments were ,what hospital bills were left unpaid, and how many collections we had were not among the topics we had around our house. So prepared? I was not.

Earlier this year after my dad broke his hip, I quit my job to care for him. One evening after his bath, while buttoning his shirt he looked up and told me how he use to dress me and was so thankful, all teary eyed, that I was able to help dress him now,

Just a month later my Dad had a heart attack while helping me put together some chairs and everything happened so fast, momentarily put on life support just long enough to say our goodbyes, quickly followed by his death. A truly wonderful man. I miss him everyday, sometimes wondering where he had gone to for the day, even setting the table for four forgetting he’s not alive anymore.

I was very fortunate to be able to remain in his house, I’ve done every side job to get by since his passing and I’ve been able to keep up with most of the household bills and take care of my two boys, one 18 and the other 9 but I found myself only capable of providing a warm safe home, food on the table and love.

What I can’t do is provide them with the Christmas they deserve. My boys have had to grow up quickly. My older one has had to become the man of the house and help financially support us by working many long hours at Target down the street while attending community college.

The support that’s needed is to help provide my sons with a Joyful Christmas…pay off some left over bills. Keep the water on and assist with the avoidance of a disappointing Holiday. One that may remind them of how I may have fallen short again when I couldn’t pay for soccer, that special prom tux, or a graduation gift this year. I just thought maybe, along with other caring people out there, they won’t have to accept another promise of a better something next year.

Any amount given will make a difference ….

Thank you,

Desiree