Aspira Inspiration & Life

No Christmas for Mine

Aspira — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:33:03 GMT

Well, I'm here once again...

I do not like to have to do this, but please check out this link and feel free to pass it to anyone who may be interested.

This is terribly embarassing and hard to do, but right now, I have no idea what else to do.

So, here's the scoop:

Last year, my sister let her boyfriend move into the house, mother's trailer with us.

He seemed ok, however he stayed on the phone for hours at a time talking long distance. He ran up the phone bill to just over $500. and then refused to pay saying he wasn't responsible for anything here and that I should talk to my sister. I did, but the bill still wasn't paid although they kept the cable on so he could sit on his butt while everyone else worked.

He talked my sister into quiting her job. And she did.

I work online. The phone line and my pc are my vehicle to work, they knew this. Just from talking to them, they figured since I need it worse than anyone else that I would pay his irresponsible phone bill for him/them.

I refused to pay his bill, since I do not over extend my bills and then not pay. EVER!

I used what I had been saving up for a place of our own to carry me and my children and pay our storage fee as well as our part of the house utilities.

For 4 months, they laid up in the bed watching cable and then didn't want to pay that bill either.

I got down to just about $30 in my checking accout after waiting for them to pay their phone bill so the phone could be turned back on, as well as my internet connection line which I did pay, but since it was on the same bill, it was cut off too.

When I got down to this small amount, I did throw a fit, me and my children were going down because of my sister and her boyfriends irresponsibility and bad choices of even trying to stay working.

Mother threw a fit and they began paying on the phone bill, until it was turned back on.

Now, there is only one line, it is local only, no extras. I pay this every month so that I am able to work.

However, I have not been able to rebuild what I had saved, therefore I do my best, the bills I owe, I pay.

However, right now, I see no way for me to be able to provide my children with much else but something to eat for Christmas, for which I am thankful.

It's just knowing that my children are upset and are not having any type of decent Christmas because of all this other mess cause by my sister and her disrespectful boy.

So, I'm posting againd.

Please feel free to visit this link and pass it to anyone you think may be interested.

Time is running out.

http://aspira.pnn.com/articles/show/28791-children-s-christmas-2-8

Thanks for reading & Happy Holidays!

Here's the Deal...

Aspira — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:18:40 GMT

Ok, here's the deal.

We are a Hurricane Katrina Family.

You can read my Hurricane Katrina Journal here. Be sure to subscribe if you want to read as it is posted here at PNN.

There's 8 of us living in this 3 bedroom trailer,

We are very thankful there are 2 bathrooms!

I'm doing the best to get me and my two children our own place again.

Things are still rough, for many Hurricane Katrina Survivers. Our family is one of them. Resources out here in this part of the country where we live are either nil or we have to travel a great distance in hopes of getting help. Other's were worse off than we, I hated to ask when I knew there were so many others. So I didn't, not really, like I said, it's a long ways just to talk to someone. And gas was outrageous, still is for that matter.

I'm a single mom, working at home online, I'm a freelancer.

I'm no longer able to stand to work for hours on end without being in continual, pain. So I write.

If you like my work, and feel to do so. Please click the donation box.

If not for me, for the kids.

I hate to ask, but, well that's the way life is for us right now, till I can get us our own place again.

Thanks for reading, I do appreciate it, even without a donation, since I just want to express myself and be heard.

Anyway, now you know.

We are Here, We will survive!

Thanks!

My Dearest Mother,

Aspira — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 06:46:14 GMT

My Dearest Mother,

I can only attempt to express the love I have known from you.

I can only attempt to do for you the many things you have done for me.

I can only call you mother so many times, until one day I find myself calling you by your name.

I can only call you blessed, as you are an angel to me.

You have always been here for me, and I adore you like no other.

I am very thankful I followed your light, and honored to call you, Mother.

Your voice is home; your smile is always welcome.

I am thankful you held me, and talked with me, helped me to grow into the person I am today.

I look in your eyes, and I see you , see me, in your eyes, as I see my brother’s and sister’s in your eyes as well, and realize you know exactly what I’m looking at, as I hug you to me.

Your letting us, your children be ourselves, while guiding us along, has turned up some interesting lives.

When there was hardly any food, you would make sure we ate first, when there was bitter cold, you would make us a fire, and gather us within reach.

By teaching us to be honest, and hardworking, expecting us to do our best, and wanting only that which would help us be happy, you’ve shown the perfect marks for motherhood, and deserve your royal robe, in that sorority.

I make myself start, by a comment I have made that truly sounds just like you, most times I snicker, other times it causes my eyebrow to arch.

It causes me to wonder, to feel that I am in the skin of my maternal ancestry, to know that there are roots, ties that bind, thru time, and eternity.

I am thankful for my place here within your world, I am in awe of the woman you are, and I can only attempt to be the woman you see in me.

I love you dear mother.

April 24, 2006, 6:00 PM