WE GOT THE HOUSE!!! 🏠❤️🎉
After months of homelessness, we're finally going HOME!
We have some wonderful news to share! The three-bedroom house on Champlain has officially passed inspection, and tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock, we'll be signing the lease and picking up our keys!
After months of living in our vehicles, sleeping in truck stop parking lots, struggling with paperwork, and wondering when we'd finally have a place to call home, this is an enormous relief.
Today, we finished gathering our birth certificates and other documents and turned everything in to Catholic Charities. Just as I was thinking about calling our property manager, Michelle, she called me with the news we'd been waiting for!
Because of our circumstances, she's also generously giving us two weeks to get the utilities transferred into our names, allowing us to move in right away.
We're incredibly grateful, but we still have one final hurdle: making our new house livable.
We managed to save a queen-sized bed, my folding cot, some desks, and a few belongings in storage. Unfortunately, we had to leave most of our furniture behind because of a bedbug infestation.
The house also comes without appliances, so we're essentially starting over.
Our most urgent needs are:
- A working refrigerator
- A stove
- A washer and dryer
- A kitchen table and chairs
- A couch or other comfortable seating
- Help with moving expenses and getting the utilities established
If anyone in the Youngstown, Ohio, area has clean, working appliances or furniture they're willing to donate, we'd be deeply grateful. We don't need anything fancy, just safe, usable items to help us make a fresh start.
We're also hoping to find someone with a pickup truck who can help us move our queen-sized mattress from storage.
After paying back friends who helped us and covering our recent necessities, our remaining funds are extremely limited. Any financial contribution will help us get through these final moving expenses and turn an empty house into a home.
To everyone who has supported us, donated, shared our story, or simply offered kind words: THANK YOU!
You helped us keep going when things seemed hopeless.
We're not completely across the finish line yet, but for the first time in months, we know exactly where we're going to sleep.
UNDER OUR OWN ROOF! ❤️
Thank you for helping our family finally find its way home.
— Adele
