Inside a cramped, little apartment in Houston, Rozznanah Bob sings Christmas carols, trying to get her four young children into the festive Christmas spirit.
But it’s not easy.
The children try, but there’s just nothing here in this place that says Christmas.
There’s no tree, no presents, no decorations, nothing!
“It hurts me. It hurts me that I can’t. You know, as a mother, you know, give them what they want for Christmas. It hurts me deep down inside. Yes, it do. Trying to make ends meet, paying bills, it’s too much,” Rozznanah said.
You see, at just 28, Rozz is a single mother struggling mightily to care for and provide for all four of her children, while working only part time at Walmart.
“Right now, I’m just working hard to make ends meet. Trying to put in more hours in at work, but it’s tough to get hours,” Rozz says.
In fact, money is so tight, that all four kids sleep in one bedroom, with only one bed and a small tent.
But it’s what happened to Rozz and her kids about a year ago that really devastated the whole family and put even more financial pressure on Rozz.
A man with a rifle fired into Rozz’s car as she was driving her kids to New Orleans because he got angry at her for cutting in front of him.
A sick display of road rage on Interstate 10.
“I was driving to New Orleans to visit a family member, and I was on the highway and I cut it in front of somebody. And as I cut it in front of him, he shot after the car and hit my four year old little girl in the back seat,” Rozznanah said.
That gunshot ripped through little Lorelei’s leg, shattering two bones, which would require screws and steel plates to put her back together.
But in that moment, Rozz’s only thought was that her daughter would die in that car.
“I really thought I want to lose the light because it was so much blood. Like the blood I got on my shirt, my pants and on. So as she losing so much blood, I really thought she would bleed out,” Rozznanah said.
Little Lorelei has now gone through 10 different surgeries and still requires medical care.
So for her, for Rozz, for the entire family, we’re about to make this Christmas one that they will never forget.
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