Casnos Minis
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We have been looking for a place to rent, no luck. We need a 3 bedroom home. I can't find anything for under $1200 a month. Well I shouldn't say that if I want to live in the city slums I can. I don't want my kids growing up around drugs and that type of stuff. I would love to find a little 2-3 acre farm to rent to own. That would be ideal for us as we had to file for bankruptcy 2 years ago. It's just getting harder and harder to live with my parents. My reltionship with them is very strained right now. They can't be "grandparents" so my mom says as we have rules and they are letting them get away with things they know they shouldn't. Also they can't be normal grandparents as my mom (55 years old) is usually in bed all day and my father is 76 and can't remember alot anymore, plus he's in a wheel chair due to having his leg amputated. They are in bed all day and stay up most of the night. My mother is eating nothing but junk and wonders why she's gained 40 pounds in 6 months. She keeps putting on me that if we leave they won't be able to pay their bills on the $1800 a month they get ($900 from me and $900 from dad's Social Security and my mom's retirement). They have a reverse mortgage so the don't have that payment. It's just elec., phone, DTV, food, and car ins. I'm getting sick of that. I work 3 days a week and she can't even get something out for me to make for dinner. My kids can't understand why they can't eat like Nana. She eats frosting and crackers (morning, noon, night, snacks), anything sweet. She'll buy a 24 count of ice cream crunch bars and they are gone in 2 days. She won't go get her sugar checked per order of her Dr., she's on alot of pain meds for her fibromyalgia, ruptured disc, chronic fatgue syndrome. She does't do anything the Dr. says and I'm sick o trying. I work as a PCA for my dad and I have quit 2 times and they don't listen. I can get paid to care for him, but my mom can't, that's why I did it. Well they have talked me out of $900 a month, they think mom should get most of it as she's the one always home. They knew I wold be working 3-4 days a week to board our horse Drew. They also know I'm looking for something else. I can't work at night as I have night blindness and can't drive at night. But I have to find something to work around the kids going to and from school. They had a 1/2 day today and I had to work ( I work 8:30 to 2 pm 3 days a week). I asked them if Nana was up and they said no she was in bed. She knew she had to be up and that they had a 1/2 day. I can't count on her to help or be up for them after school and i can't afford a babysitter or daycare. There isn't a daycare in my town so they can't get picked up or dropped of there. I don't hae many friends who are willing to help me either. If I get this barn manager job, I'm quiting my PCA job. We were supposed to be saving money, but I've had to pay for more than my 1/2 of the bills alot of the time especially when we first moved in as they were way behind on all their bills so I had to get everything caught up so they didn't shut everything off, and we haven't been able to get back from that. I just don't know what to do anymore, they don't take me seriously. They wnat to know why I hide in y room for the hour before the kids come home (duh! so I have some peace before they get home), and so I don't have to deal with them. Sorry it's so long I just needed to get this off my chest.
Christy
Christy