starlaw79's Journal

Ok so i thought i would check out holiday prices for say a basic caravan in devon in the summer holidays for 2 weeks just to see what i would be looking at and every quate that came back was nearing the £1500 mark. That is bloody ludicrous i mean it only costs about £2500 for fights and accomadation and tickets into the theme parks for florida how can i they get away with it and survive?? It pisses me off that there is nothing that caters for single mums nothing to help with costs of a holiday for us and our kids surely we need the break the same if not more than families?? Why are we penelised?? I am just venting but i am fed up with my son getting depressed because after school holidays friends come back bragging about holidays and days ot etc etc and i have given my children nothing, i know all kids need is love but lets face it that other stuff adds for some pretty fun and fond memories. My kids and many others are going to grow up and say my mum was great she loved us loads and did her best but we never had anything, no holidays few day trips just lots of trips to the park for a picnic.  It is easy to say it doesn't matter but lets face it here it really does, it bothers us all we can not have normality we have survival and we are expected to be happy and just get on with it because after all there is not a choice. I know i am ranting but it is how i feel, i keep saying to my son that his school friends are no better than he is and it is so true he is an angel but they are happier they do live and we exist and frankly it pisses me off. What else pisses me off is that there is in fact ver little you can do to change the situation, if you work by the time you have paid out your rent etc and bills you work out with very little more than you had on benefits, if you study to better yourself you have to rely on loans and bursaries to survive which is not only an added stress on top off all the other stuff you have to deal with and study but leaves you wishing you hadn't bothered when it comes to paying back the loans. So Mr prime minister with all the determination in the world what are we to do?? we have no back up it is just us and everything is out of reach. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR