by Veronica
(Fort Belvoir Virginia, United States)
my 4 kids, my husband and nephews
POWER OF GIVING CHARITY SUMMARY: Please help us. I'm hoping someone out there will help us. Just enough to get an apartment for a few months. I'm 23 years old and...
NAME: Veronica Merritt LOCATION: Fort Belvoir, VA GENDER: Female PLIGHT: Life Circumstances AMOUNT NEEDED: $950.00
Veronica's Story:
My name is Veronica. I'm 23 years old, Navy wife and mother to 4.
My husband and I recently made the very difficult decision that he would not re-inlist in the Navy.
My husband wants to find a job outside of the military so he can be home with his family. If he were to stay in he'd be going overseas.
His last day is coming up fast, this July. We haven't been able to save up enough for new housing, even though we tried. It just seems like life has been against us lately.
I tried selling things on ebay , but that only COST us money (I didn't know what I was doing).
I also tried selling my artwork without success.
To make matters worse, my two little nephews are in trouble. Their father is in jail and their mother isn't able to handle them so they are now living with their grandma who is never home and so they are in the care of a 17 year old aunt who hates them.
Unfortunately they are in NY and we are in VA or we would still have them with us. They lived with us for 2 months earlier this year but their mother said she missed them and we thought we were sending them back to live with her but they went to the grandma's house instead. I can't stand knowing they aren't in a loving place right now and I want them back with us.
Their mom wants them back with us too, but we can't even afford a place to move to once we're out of here and so how can we go get them?
This is all so heartbreaking and stressful and I don't know what to do. My husband believes things will work out, but I don't know how, I don't know what more I can do.
I only heard of this site by mistake when I was looking for an apartment on craigslist but I'm hopeful that fate sent me here.
I'm hoping someone out there will help us. Just enough to get an apartment for a few months while my husband looks for a good job.
Then we can get a loan and buy a home for our family.
I am grateful and thankful to anyone willing to help and I promise, once we get back on our feet I will pay it forward to someone else in need.
Please help, thank you so much.
Veronica Merritt, 4 Kids Plus 2! : )
Comments for
Please help us, military family, 4 kids plus 2
When I say that the boys' 17 year old aunt hates them, what I mean is, every time they are "bad" she straps them in carseats all day. She screams at them constantly for even the littlest things.
She blames them for everything that goes wrong even if it's her little brother who may have done it. She lets their little uncle (her brother) who is about 2 or 3 bite and scratch them but they aren't allowed to defend themselves.
When the boys were with me they hardly ever even got in trouble. It took me a month to teach them not to bite people though. I was doing so good with them, getting them to smile and sing and share and hug. I talked on the phone with my nephew recently, he is 3 (the one wearing red in the pictures). I told him he was a good boy but then he began to argue "I not a good boy, I a bad boy" I insisted "no honey, you're good" and he sighed "no I not, I a bad boy". It hurt. I love him and when he was with me he was happy and he knew he was good, he knew he was beautiful, he knew he was loved.
I don't want the boys to end up being lost to social services but that might end up being their fate if we don't take them soon. I am a stay at home mother and I can provide them with love and attention, just like I do for my own little ones. Please help us, we would go pick them up this weekend if we could afford to. My husband has been looking online, trying to find a job, no luck yet though. And if we can't afford a place by the time we leave, we'll have to sell almost everything. I feel embarassed asking for help and wouldn't be asking if I didn't feel it was really needed. Thank you again.
