By Danielle DeSisto:
After her husband got injured at work, a Riverside mother has struggled to provide for her three young children.
From keeping up with mortgage bills to fighting with her health insurance company, the mother feels as if she is drowning. But her children inspire her each day to persevere.
“My kids have been so appreciative. We could not even do birthday parties this year, and they still stay positive,” the mother wrote in a letter to the annual Give A Christmas fund, co-sponsored by the Burlington County Times and Willingboro Rotary Club.
Her 15-year-old son and 12-year-old daughter are honor roll students, and she’s confident her 3-year-old son will follow in their footsteps. But the mother worries that she won’t be able to reward her children with the joy they deserve this Christmas.
“I would hate for them to not have anything on Christmas Day,” she wrote. “The 3-year-old can’t wait for Santa, and I hope and pray you bless us with this gift.”
The Give A Christmas fund tries to ease the burden struggling families have in providing for their children at Christmas by working toward its goal of raising $80,000. Beginning in 1968, the program has collected and distributed over $3 million to Burlington County families.
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