Today is my puppy Chucky's third birthday! So it should have been a nice fun day, but instead I have miserable people. I just want some peace and some fun is that too much to ask? And I don't even mean money wise because... well let me tell you the story of my son's fifth Christmas.
The previous January, we had been kicked out by family because they were abusive but we had no where else to go. We ended up staying at the only homeless shelter in New York that would keep me and my son together.
Yes, they wanted to take my son away and put him in foster care and send me on a bus to New Jersey.
But thankfully we got in to that place and we had been doing good and stayed there for many months. Suddenly the home decided that they were only letting people stay for two weeks at a time and all the people there needed to leave.
So we packed up what little we had and went to the social services office for help. We spent the next three weeks bouncing from hotel to hotel set up by social services.
Now it was almost Christmas, I was working at McDonald's and most of everyday was me and my kid walking and taking buses to get to school and work and then back.
I was depressed, devastated, and alone. I had no family around that cared, I had friends but I didn't want to bother them with my struggles, and I had a sweet, happy boy who just wanted to have some fun and celebrate the season.
So we found a train gingerbread kit at the convienient store that was near by. We laughed and struggled with that thing until it looked how we wanted. And we had a blast doing it.
To this day (almost ten years later) and my son still talks about making it and it's unfortunate ending where it got smashed as we moved to a new place. But mostly the fun we had building it.
I have a bunch of stories like this from my life because my life has been struggle after bullshit after struggle with little to no help from anyone and just sheer willpower and luck to get me by.
I just hope that my life gets easier and I have less struggle and bullshit. So far... just different bullshit not less.
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