North Carolina Powerball winner is mother of 4 who quit her jobs to care for kids

[Medicate]

https://www.yahoo.com/parenting/how-mom-of-four-who-won-188m-powerball-plans-to-110908278172.html

Mother of four Marie Holmes has come forward to say that she won $188 million with her Powerball ticket in the $564 million lottery drawing on Wednesday.

“I thought I was going to have a heart attack when I saw the ticket and checked it,” the 26-year-old from Shallotte, North Carolina, told WECTthe next day, showing a reporter her golden ticket (though Holmes hasn’t officially been verified as a winner yet). She added that her reaction gave her son and three girls a real fright. “I was telling my kids that we don’t have to struggle any more, and I was yelling when I did it, so they ran and said I’d scared them.”

The shock is obviously a welcome one, though, especially because Holmes is currently unemployed after having had to quit her jobs at Wal-Mart and McDonald’s to care for her children, one of whom has cerebral palsy. “I’ve been struggling since I had them,” she said. “But I wouldn’t trade [anything] because they’re a blessing. I’m just thankful that I can actually do for them without anybody’s help. I don’t have to worry about struggling anymore.”

Holmes can choose to take her $188 million as an annuity paid over 30 years, according to the North Carolina Lottery’s Twitter page, or as a $127 million lump sum payment before federal and state taxes are withheld. The other two tickets were bought in Puerto Rico and in Texas. Either way, Holmes and her children are set for life.

“This is all for them, everything is all for them, all the struggle that I ever went through is all for them,” she said. “They can go to college, all on me and they don’t have to worry about anything…I’m thankful I can bless my kids with something that I didn’t have.”

But before Holmes starts spending on the house that she wants to buy her brood or open funds for their education and savings she says she plans to pay her tithe — by definition a tenth of one’s income — to her church. “First I’m going to pay my tithe because I wouldn’t have none of it if it wasn’t for God,” she said.

 

[SirReginald]

But before Holmes starts spending on the house that she wants to buy her brood or open funds for their education and savings she says she plans to pay her tithe — by definition a tenth of one’s income — to her church. “First I’m going to pay my tithe because I wouldn’t have none of it if it wasn’t for God,” she said.

Oh fukk

 

[Bledswole]

nikkas in here hating hard

Keep it moving fukk boi's

 

[Pdiddy]

....I wished I woulda wifed that bytch up...Damn it mane

 

[Scuti]

she plans to pay her tithe — by definition a tenth of one’s income — to her church. “First I’m going to pay my tithe because I wouldn’t have none of it if it wasn’t for God,” she said.

tithe is 10 fukkkin percent......18.8million?

personally i wouldnt tithe that...the church is against gambling anyways

pastor when he heard she won on some

 

[the_FUTURE]

tithe is 10 fukkkin percent......18.8million?

personally i wouldnt tithe that...the church is against gambling anyways

pastor when he heard she won on some

legit happy for her. Usually happy for anybody who wins this money. Damn thou, she sitting real pretty now thou, while the people who left her struggling just thinking of a strategy like

 

[Medicate]

tithe is 10 fukkkin percent......18.8million?

personally i wouldnt tithe that...the church is against gambling anyways

pastor when he heard she won on some

Breh when I read that...I had to log off.. Ths is how you know nikkas is brainwashed by religion. Its a dead fckin end.........

 

[MikelArteta]

nothing wrong with payng her tithes, people are so caught up thinking every church is bad or all pastors are greedy. MOre than likely her church helped her out and her 4 kids like the majority of churches do helping the poor,.

cats who hate religion will alays like to throw shade

 

[MikelArteta]

nothing wrong with payng her tithes, people are so caught up thinking every church is bad or all pastors are greedy. MOre than likely her church helped her out and her 4 kids like the majority of churches do helping the poor,.

cats who hate religion will alays like to throw shade

 

[Reece]

if i had hundreds of millions, I'd tithe to my church. my pastor was like a second father to me on some Bronx Tale shyt but, in a good way. i'd love nothing more than to put a couple million in his hand. i know he'd put it back into the community and the church.

not all preachers are crooks. you don't know what kinda relationship she got with her pastor and the people in the ministry. don't judge. but i will admit more often than not, they're crooks

 

[Mindfield333]

If a cac single mom won no one would be hating

a lot of black people have the same mentality as white supremacist

 

[Flash Thunderton]

26
4 children
No father around

 

[Flash Thunderton]

a lot of black people have the same mentality as white supremacist

Nope, if she was 26 with 4 kids and white and no father around I'd be tougher

 

[Mindfield333]

Nope, if she was 26 with 4 kids and white and no father around I'd be tougher

you wouldnt have to be tougher b/c they wouldnt mention her race & number of kids if she was white

dont you know how it works by now?

 

[Buckeye Fever]

Ima have my homie get on this asap.

He gets the ladies sprung.

I need his dikk to make me rich