Shit cake...

[dragonjournal]

So today, two things happened.

1) Housing inspected, and we failed. Apparently, my house is filthy. Even though I tried my hardest to clean. But my stove/oven are filthy. There's rotten food in my fridge. My bathroom is rancid.
Living room.


Dining room. all those clothes are clean, they just need to be put away. Those bags are garbage, but my back is killing me, and I couldn't take them out.


Kitchen one. If you look to the right, you'll see where he called me counters "cluttered".


Kitchen two and my "filthy floors".

So, basically, I don't know what's going to happen now. We could be evicted. We can't afford to live anywhere else. Literally, this is all I can afford to live at and we barely make it here.

2. Children Services was also here today. they claim that unless Daughter gets some mental help, she may be removed to foster care. That means, I could lose my house and my child.

Oh, and to top it all off, my cat got out this morning and I haven't been able to find him to bring him home/inside again. So, I haven't even been able to cuddle something today.

And now I'm in tears again.

I've done nothing but cry most of the day. Even before they inspected/child services stopped by.

I don't know what we're going to do. I can't afford to live anywhere but in housing. So, today has just been bad.

Comments

[dragonjournal]

She has some mental health issues that I want her to get help for, but that's not something you can force, really. Except... they can. And if they do, then she'll just have to deal with going to therapy at least once a month, or they will remove her from the house.

[jehanne1431]

Oh, poor Jasmine. Yes, I agree with you. She needs to go. Being removed from her home would certainly not help her mental health.

[dragonjournal]

They (the preferred pronoun) want to go by Peter now. But sometimes, I still slip and call them Jasmine.

But yeah. Even child services dude was just like "Your house is clean, what problem do they have?" so, there's that.

[jehanne1431]

Hopefully the housing people will give you a break. Can the kids help with the trash and cleaning?

Why "they"? (sincere question) Why not "him"?

[dragonjournal]

The kids did help. that's why it was so devastating. We worked hard to get the house perfect, and it still wasn't good enough.

I have no idea. They just prefer they/them to he/she. I don't know why, I'm just trying to raise them right.