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Hello all thank you for stopping by my post and taking the time to read this I am coming to you today out of pure exhaustion and at the end of my rope with any options I have to give my son a good Christmas. I am a single mom who for the last about 6 years I have been struggling with mental health issues and due to these mental health issues I haven’t been able to work and at the moment my son currently is living with his father but this is our first Christmas where he gets to come to my house and be with me all day just the two of us which is a huge deal for me because for the last five or six Christmases I pretty much spent them alone and I just want to be able to breathe again and relax and enjoy my day with my kid. We have been through some very very traumatic and not so great past events and this is our first Christmas where I feel like we’re going to be able to enjoy it without worrying or remembering everything we’ve gone through but because I’m a single mom on social assistance they don’t give you much and most months unless with wondering where my next meal is going to come from or how I’m even going to get to my son’s house for a visit that we have or vice versa and so with this being my first Christmas with him back home I am stressed to the max because I have absolutely $0 to give him anything even a Christmas dinner. I don’t usually ask others for help I have no family to ask or anybody supportive that will be able to lend me a helping hand I’m always usually the one helping people if I can but recently in the last couple years I found myself in a very dark place with my mental health and it’s been a struggle to bring my head back up to the surface and while I am still in a good place now and I’m working actively towards getting better so maybe one day I can think about rejoining the workforce . I am in a position where I just want to breathe a little easier this Christmas and be able to see that look on his face that I have seen so many times before but haven’t in so long he is such an amazing kid and so supportive and so loving and just deserves the world after everything he’s been through and I want to be able to give him at least a Christmas dinner like we used to have and a present and not have to tell him I’m sorry kiddo you can’t come because I have no way to give you a Christmas dinner please you etc. I do my best to keep my bills paid and make ends meet but like I said most months and in a struggle to get to the end of the month to get groceries cuz you know halfway through the month I don’t even have a way to get groceries and sometimes I don’t even know where my next meal is coming from. I really appreciate anybody who takes the time to stop and read my post and anybody who offers any help it means more than anybody could ever understand or know. Being a mom and being able to provide for your kid and not only provide but give them a Christmas Day deserve is the most amazing feeling but it’s also the worst feeling if you can’t and I just want to give him a good Christmas and I just want to spend my time with him and not have to stress out while I’m doing that. I think you all so much for your help and I look forward to spending the holiday with my son and I hope everybody has an amazing holiday. Thank you