Habitat is happy to introduce one of our newly selected home owners! Misti Ruiz is the mother of three girls and a supervisor at ACE Knecht Home Center. She said she is very excited to receive a home.
“This is a new start for us,” she commented. “We are happy to have a home of our own!”
Ruiz has been on her own since she was 16, and many things in her life have not come easily. She admitted that she made some unhealthy decisions in her early life, but eventually realized how much more important her girls are than anything else.
“It’s always been us,” Ruiz said about her relationship with her girls. “We’ve stayed together and stuck through it all.” “The girls think I’m it,” she added, “and I think they’re it.”
Ruiz’s daughters, Valentina (14), Victoria (12), and Veronica (9), all go to different schools, and Misti said that her life can be pretty hectic. She works full-time and said she’s usually running errand s during her lunch break. To make life even tougher, Ruiz lost both her mother and brother in the last few years, and she added that this has been hard on everyone. She admired her mom a great deal and said she wants to be just like her.
“I think she’s proud of me looking down,” she said.
One thing that Ruiz is particularly proud of is the fact that she is almost totally off of government support programs and striving to be completely independent. She said, “I don’t want to be one of those people who live off the state.”
Ruiz sees this opportunity as a change to increase her independence and bring her family even closer together.
“We’ve been on top of each other in the trailer and it will be nice to have our own space,” she said. “We can sit down and have dinner together!”
Ruiz has already begun the process of completing her sweat equity hours and said she’s excited to build her home.
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