So i sit here today thinking of our financial situation. It's not that's were really really bad i know theres always someone out there that has it worse but were bad. we live off my dads social security check and Steve's paycheck. now my dad is mentally disabled (from a bad mental break down he had when i was a kid) and he gets 585 dollars a month. in this economy that's supposed to be enough for him to live off of, that's not even enough for him along so imagine how we are getting by. next theres Steve's paychecks. they would be okay if he didn't have to pay so much in child support. Steve has to pay 400 alone for one kid and 40 for the other which he has custody of but the courts wont drop it because he needs the mother of his kid to go as well and she doesn't ever show. so even if he works 60 hours in a week his paycheck ends up looking like 135 bi weekly once the child support is out. so there goes my i want to be a stay at home mom till willow is at least a year old thing. now someone else has to take care of my baby while i work. so I'm on the hunt for a job.
Now you would think go get help go to social services. we did and we still have not received and answer for our food stamps case. i have a weird feeling we might get rejected. see my dad had a case but it only had him and my two sisters and well we all live in the same house so i decided to add the whole family to his case during his re certification. well its been 3 weeks since i got the last of the info in and we have heard nothing. hopefully when i call tomorrow to find out if they have approved or denied the case they will have an answer for me. i called around the 25th but his case worker said he had not worked on it yet which is understandable since there are allot of people in the system.
I know what some reader out there must be thinking great another family getting fed off my paycheck, and to that person i say thank you. I'm not on welfare because i want to be I'm on it because we are struggling. times are very hard as I'm sure you know. and i just had a baby, shes my first baby and while she was not planned ( i was on birth control and still got pregnant) i could not abort her and shes my little love. she makes things better and helps me smile. i tried to work hard while i was pregnant and i tried to save up but then the car broke down or we had a leak in our roof and little by little i saw my savings account go down till i only had 5 dollars in it. i am not abusing the system my family needs a little help and i thank you, i know you do it because you have to its a mandatory deduction from your pay but i still appreciate it.
anyway I'm going offline i finished my homework and i posted this so i should go take care of my sleeping baby.
"All we need is love"
Amy
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