recently laid off, lost all due to flood 2008,single mother trying to raise my kids...
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Im a 29 year old single mother of 3 wonderful, beautiful kids. Its been a rough 29 years but worth it for the kids. Not sure how much we are suppose to go into on here, but here it goes. Growing up with an abusive father and anxiety ridden mother, I took care of my little sister and helped to raise her. I met my kids father when I was 16. The relationship was full of abuse and cheating and after 10 years, it was over. He didnt go without being rude about it though. Made sure to cause us to lose everything we had and I had to take my kids back to my parents to live. It took 2 years, but I finally got financially stable enough to move out of my parents and get my kids into a nice apartment, just a couple blocks from my parents and within walking distance of their school and the boys and girls club. We were all four happy, finally getting our lives back on track. Then it happened, 3 months to the date, the flood of 2008 hit cedar rapids ia. we lived 4 blocks from the river, my parents living even closer. They said it was only gonna be a little worse than the one that hit us in 1993, so our neighbors were saying just put everything up high and it should be fine. We did that, and it would have been ok, had the garage across the street not lifted up and slammed into our front windows. The river filled our home and took everything we had. It was devestating to feel like I had let my kids down by not getting their things out. We had only taken enough stuff to last a couple days as we were told to. I placed the sandbags and went, and was never able to return. After a lot of missed work, I found us a different home, while my parents remained homeless to this day ( i dont have the room to return the favor). None of us have been able to go home even as of yet. It feels as though ever since, everything else has gone down hill. Medical leave, car blowing up, being laid off. I love my kids and want the best for them and its such a change from what it was prior to the flood. On top of my health issues physically, mentally I am not doing well either. My depression and anxiety disorders are in high gear and we are trying to get our lives back on track,my children deserve at least that much from me, I love them so much, they are my world.
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My Family
Mother :Shelley
Father: Donald
Sister(s): Stephanie
Recent changes in my life : Cedar Rapids Flood of 2008 devasted us and we lost everything and ALL the complications from that....February 2009 I had to go on medical leave for chronic untreatable pain...(possible fibromyalgia) and in May 2009 I lost my job due to being on medical leave and not able to return AND my only transportation literally blew up and exploded, ended up in the news here.....
What is most important thing in your life? My kids, they saved my life and changed me for the better....i wouldnt be here without them....
Comedy or Horror? Comedy
If you could build a house anywhere, where would it be? in the country
If you had a million dollars, what would you do with it? buy a home and car for myself and my parents and my sister, college educations for my kids, donate some to the red cross and united way, take care of my family
Photos Of Christina
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this is a set of 4 pics, the large one on top shows our ground floor apt and the garage that slammed into our windows(garage was originally across the street prior to the flood) and outside is the pile of our belongings that got destroyed, the 3 smaller pics are just a few of the inside of the place we had finally called home...
me and my kids on the 4th of July.
my oldest, mariah age 11
my youngest, Nate, age 7
my middle child, james age 8
the last time we saw our home...you can even see the sandbags in front of the door, it wasnt suppose to get very high...
what was left of the blazer
my parents home that flooded....
a block from our flooded home...not even the peak of the flood...
this was the last time we saw our home...you can see the sandbags in front of our door...it wasnt suppose to get that high..
water beginning to fill our street as we were leaving..
another look at the water filling our street...
secondary flood line....if you look really close you can kinda see how high the water got...
water line in mariahs room.....
mariahs bathroom....
the boys room, the stuff you see was originally in a cubby space 12 ft up in their room.....
my room, what was left of it....
the closet in my room....
my blazer on fire as it appeared in the local newspaper...
so it has been a while, i had been homeless for a while and now have
access again. i have gotten a job as a house keeper at a hotel here,
it is very part time but is just enough to pay the rent and
necessities on the little apartment we have gotten. am i crazy? there
is still a part of me that cries when i go through the flood zone and
see all the homes and buildings still sitting almost 2 years later
untouched...the old neighborhood is getting torn down, house by
house....my parents home was our home for sssoooo long and they are
still homeless, nothing has been the same since that stupid flood.
everything had just started to fall into place and get better, take 2
steps forward, take 20 step>>>
Description: In 2008, Christina along with her three children lost everything in the flood that
devastated Cedar Rapids. As a single mother, raising her three children alone was already
an up hill battle. In 2009, things got progressively worse when Christina was placed on
medical leave from work in time for her car to break down. Christina joined MicroGiving to
raise funds for another vehicle so that she can take her children to school, shop for
groceries and commute to and from work.
"Its been chaotic trying to get back on our feet. We're still not there
completely and there are many things we dont have that we lost in the flood, but we do
have love (and a lot of it).
I have been fighting for unemployment and trying my hardest to support my three kids on my
own. I want me and my kids to be completely happy and relaxed like we were before the
flood. I am requesting assistance to purchase a decent running used car and hopefully have
enough to pay for a tag/license. If we only we had transportation, we would be on our way
to living sustainably again. Thanks for your help!" - Christina & family
My progress:
This is a one time only expense assistance request .
My message:
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