Well, I guess my story may sound similar to some others here. I am single mom of two beautiful girls ages 2 and 6. We were homeless in Maryland for over a year. I finally found housing here in Springfeild VA and about two weeks after moving here I lost my job. My car is getting ready to be repossed if I don't make a payment soon and Christmas is coming. I have tried so hard to keep order and balance in my girls life, that i kind of forgot about me. That's ok though, any good mom would have done the same.

I guess my six year old has felt this situation the hardest. She never really feels like she is at home. She got her first real room (even though she shares it). In only first grade she has been to four different schools. I have her in activites such as soccer and bowling (whatever mom can mange to afford at the time). She has a hard time making  friends which I believe is because she know sthat she won't be there the next school year.

My fear right now is loosing my car and not being able to do anything for thm for christmas. I know christmas isn't about the gifts, it's about family and love and togethernes. However, my family makes a huge deal out of christmas and they have come to expect certain things from me. This year I am falling very short. My family has helped me so much in the last year that to ask them for anything else would be ludacris.

If anyone out there would like to help my babies this holiday season I would greatly appricate it. Please contact me and let me know.

Thank you and God Bless

Sad to say, that I am in need of rent, I am a single mom of two little girls 6 months and 16 months, my rent is 1150, and due very very soon. I have no where to go. The father is useless. I have a part-time job and I have to pay the nanny, which she gets half of my pay check, and the other half goes on my girls, for diaper, wipes and anything else that they need. I am on welfare and I get 400 in food stamps but they won't help with my rent due to that I work, but I am not making it. The welfare department says that I make 548 dollars more then what I need to make it a month,  I only make 1200 a month then taxes come out. I am scared and alone and I don't want to leave the place my girls call home. I don't have a picture of me or my girls, b/c this is my work computer and I don't have one at home. If you can help, I would be grateful to you and so will my girls.

Thank you, for taking the time out to read this, and I hope you can find it in you heart to help me in anyway.

Thank you

My husband has been out of work since Feb. 06 after hurting his back pretty bad. He is getting underpaid by Workers Comp and they have refused to pay for his physical therapy, MRI, and some meds he is on. I get SSI due to my own health problems and am awaiting another surgery. I am hoping to go back to school in January 07 to finish my degree.

We have a lawyer for the workers comp BUT things work SO slow. We thought that the underpayment for the last 9 months would have come through by now so that we could buy our girls (12, 8, and 3) Christmas and get ahead on the bills. It hasn't. We barely pay the bills monthly, always get shut off notices, hubby has had to stop PT because we can't afford it anymore, our savings were depleted from medical expenses that workers comp was supposed to pay but have yet to pay us for.

I would like to be able to get a few things for each of the girls for Christmas. I am trying to get help locally BUT we make too much ($600 too much a month but NO ONE adds in the costs of the medical we pay out of pocket! just rent & elec are counted as expenses).

So, I came across this site and am asking if there are any people out there wanting to adopt a family for Christmas my girls are such good kids. They really deserve a good Christmas this year. My oldest won't even ask for anything because she knows we are broke. Makes me sad! She just wants her sisters to get something. She even offered her birthday money to me to buy gifts for her sisters from Santa.

I understand if you can't help my family but thanks for reading of my situation.

God Bless

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The best way to tell my story is to say I have always been a kind hearted person and want to help people even when I am not able to. This is way I am in the spot that I am, I lost my job a year ago under shady terms I fell into a depression during and after this time I decided to start dayare in my home because when I was working I saw how little amount of time I got with my daughter. My boyfriend said he would support me in what I wanted to do. Needless to say I am still doing daycare but it did not work out the way planned. Money grew tight and we lost our house. I had the luck of a loving family who has given my a place to stay. MY grandmother passed away a year ago this november, But they owned her house the house has many finacial problems there are leins and foreclosre but they have filed backrupty. Do to relataonship issuses with my boyfriend and my parents he does not live with me which is hard but my daughter comes first. But before I moved my daughter had made a friend in the area, After becaoming friends with her parents I found and was told that there where a lot a problems they where staying in a family members house who was letting it go and the husband and wife were having problems so me being me We took the mother and daughter in. The mother is bipolar and has not been on meds in years I am helping her to get back on her feet and giving them a safe place to live the house they were in had no water, or electric and was gross. I changed their lives but it is still a battle everyday to keep them on track. I am taking classes to be certified with the state for childcare but right now I have a few clents but its only enough to barley pay the utilites and buy nesseiteis and the extra food that the food stamps don't cover. I would love for this to be a great christmas for my girls to get them through the hards times of them both losing family this last year and to help make the adjustment to the move more memorable for them

We're 2 girls, one 18, one 19, and we're out of high school, and one of us is already deep in debt with college funds, and the other is about to start. We're trying to move out but have found it quite hard or people to accept us by our piercings and tattoos, so finding a legit job has been a bit hard. We've tried for years to prove to our parents that we're not bad girls, it just seems they've looked passed our talking and went straight to the lifestyle we live by. We're not bad! We don't do drugs, we don't smoke, we don't drink, we're just trying to make it! One of us is going to college to become a nurse and the other is going to get a degree in metal arts! On the other side, gas has been EXTREME, and we just put all of our money into a jeep that cost $3800, and that was the last but of money we had. We needed a vehicle big enough for art supplies and extra room for anything we need in the future. We're working together but it seems to be getting nowhere besides deeper in the hole. :(

We're in a band, just the two of us.

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