Looking for Art/Craft supplies for my 4 girls Christmas Presents - please help!
posted on Dec 5, 2007
Hi, my name is Kerry and I have 4 daughters. They are 4, 6, 6 and 16. About a year and a half ago, I left an abusive marrage to try to make a better life for me and my girls. Things have been pretty rocky since then. My ex is refusing to let me go and refuses to sign any of the paperwork. He is trying to get custody of the girls and calls children's services on me all the time. (The ladies from there are WONDERFUL! I have nothing but good things to say about them, and they have always quickly closed the cases, but it is a horrible abuse of the system on his part and keeps them overworked and is a form of harrassment).
Anyway... I work two jobs. One in the morning and one in the afternoon so that I can get my twins from school and take them to the daycare. This also allows me to take them to the councelor's apointments and lets be be availible to go to the school when one of them is throwing a temper tantrum (hey.. Daddy throws things when he's mad, why can't I?). Anyway, this means that I currently don't have health insurance. I take a drug called effexor for Fibomyalgia (which is a disease that causes chronic pain). It is $140/month at half the dose I'm supposed to be taking.
I've never been in the position of not being able to give my children something for Chirstmas. I don't have any family (my Mom died 2 years ago) and I dont' have any credit cards. I do make fairly good money and their Dad is currently working and paying child support, but at the moment, I have to pay my lawyer, and the court appointed Gaurdian and every time he calls Children's Services or some other authority on me, it costs over $1,000 for me to clear my name and pay everyone to investigate something that didn't need to be investigated. (sigh)
I'd like to give them some art supplies this year.. we color and paint and craft all the time. If anyone has some extra art supplies, material or yarn, would you consider donating them to us for their Christmas?
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