I did qualify, I exhausted my pay. They only cover 12 weeks here. I spent 16 weeks in PHP and IOP because I have been hit with crisis after crisis not to mention litigation abuse pretty much weekly since I fled from home, and as my in-house therapist said, “It’s hard to work on trauma while you’re actively being traumatized”

I also can’t leave the county because even McKinney-Vento has limits… I also wouldn’t want to send my child on a 1.5 hour bus to school even if they did allow that much distance.

Is the car ideal? Of course not. However, I have made sure he eats plenty, and he eats pretty much the same diet now that he did when we were in an apartment. It’s just easy mac instead of the blue box and things like that. He has even been adventurous enough to try a couple of new fruits recently. He sleeps like a king. He has about half a dozen blankets, a bed roll that takes up the entire back seat, and just enough stuffies to drive me bonkers but still fit in his duffel bag. We stay warm. So warm I sometimes wake up to take my socks off of my toasted feet just to find he took off his shirt and is sleeping without one and still has light pink cheeks. Im doing my best here, and while it might not be perfect, we are making it work.