To say fairwell 1 last time

Kristie Lind Start Date: Mar 8, 2024 - End Date: Mar 22, 2024
  • Flint, MI, United States of America

My Travel Story

by: Kristie Lind Start Date: Mar 8, 2024 - End Date: Mar 22, 2024
so.. i don't have a compelling reason like most others do.. what i do have is a sob story anyone can relate to some way or another.. i grew up in Flint Michigan for my first 24 years which i made life hard on myself during that time.. and another story for another time.. but was run out to lower Alabama leaving everyone and everything i ever knew where i spent 13 long hard years raising my 3 wonderful, smart, strong, and very opinionated daughters.. i struggled everyday but tried to make the best of every day life trying to be a good role model for them.. they are so close in age it was almost like having triplets when each is so very different than the others.. i tried to show equality and love and the true meaning of family.. we were able to travel back home in 2019 so my girls could meet some of the family.. only to have to return 3 months later to deal with my grandmothers death, Grandpa had passed a few years earlier and was waiting in the back of the closet for Gramma.. so we went back and buried them both at once.. we were heartbroken but got through it. it was because of them and my inheritance that i was able to come home here and buy my 1st house creating the stability I'd always hoped for.. but the house is older and needs new windows, Central ac/heater, and a set of French doors that we can see out of between them, which i can't afford, i work for myself and work has been slow to non existence but we have made it all work until now.. i have a avalanche i drive but a friend borrowed it and hit a brick mailbox which i can't afford a hole front end replacement.. even then i still drive it making the best out of what life has given me.. my girls are in band and junior ROTC, robotics, engineering, and photography, and the list goes on.. between the 3 of them I'm 0having to drive to the school 1 to 2 times a day during the week and at least 1 day during the weekend plus concerts and competition and practice.. and again i do what i have to to allow them these opportunities without complaint or any other help.. now this morning i recieved the news that my father has passed away.. i didn't even know he was in the hospital.. now i have 10 days to try to come up with the money to rent a vehicle (not only will mine not make it that far let alone back home) but it only gets somewhere around 17 miles per gallon, even if i could drive it i wouldn't be able to afford the gas.. i was originally trying to plan a small vacation for the girls n i to go on to bond just us girls but what i saved for that trip is now going towards my dad's final goodbye. so.. brings me to here n now.. since we would be driving across country (Pensacola FL to Flint Michigan) i figured we could turn this trip into a family adventure and stop off at places in route(would love any suggestions on any interesting places or things to do along the way) only that brings me back to not being able to afford any of it.. it's important to have that last fair well along with the girls to meet their other side of the family see where they came from and experience who they hadn't had the chance to meet. i believe family is everything! and it's important to know them and now in my case to pay my last respects and say goodbye in person.. so if there is any way you could help bring a family back together, allow a daughter to to say goodbye to a father, and help me show the girls another part of the world i would greatly appreciate it. thank u for reading my sob story to the end at least. and if you can donate thank u from the bottom of my heart, and many blessings to u and your loved ones.
  • Flint, MI, United States of America