In August of last year, my mother was diagnosed with Advanced Small Cell Lung Cancer. The doctors gave her to Christmas, maybe. She proved them wrong and stayed with us until June of this year.
I miss her terribly, but she wanted our family to go on, and that is what we’re trying to do. Of course, life has a way of making it interesting.
We lived in Reno, NV because my mom wanted to be there. Once she was gone, it didn’t feel like home anymore. We decided to move back to Southern California. My sister’s fiance, who had also just recently lost his mother, bravely said he would be glad to carry us until we found jobs. Then everything went crazy.
After quitting my full time job that I had been at for over 6 years and our family (my sister and my 18 year old daughter) moved in with my sis’s fiance, we got some troubling news. Since the lease was in his mother’s name, the landlady gave him notice. Also, since it’s a house he’s renting, and the $1500 deposit was originally waived “in good faith”, if we don’t pass the walkthrough tomorrow, we might have to somehow come up with that $1500 immediately.
Now, we have to find a place to live by the 1st of August. We can’t even look for jobs until then, since we aren’t sure exactly where we’ll end up. And the kicker? We can’t even start trying for anywhere because we still haven’t received the insurance money we were depending on.
I had decided already that I was going to start crafting like crazy again, since that fell by the wayside while my mom was sick, and start selling online to try to make some extra income. At the moment, though, all I’ve been able to do is set up all the online stuff because all my crafting supplies are still in boxes. Speaking of which, in the future I’m thinking of getting a specialized crafting accounting software called Craft Maker Pro. Has anyone used it? Is it worth the price?
I did, regretfully, post an item in my store for donations to help us out. I really hate asking for help that way, but we’re a little desperate. Here is the link, if you’d like to help.:
So, as of today, July 12th, we have practically no money, haven’t got a place to live as of the 1st, and only one out of four of us has a job.
Yet, even with all these problems and setbacks, it still feels like we made the right decision. It’s just proving harder to do than we thought.
