A mother has filmed the heartwarming moment when her eight-year-old son burst into tears when he discovered that his family had a new home to live in.
Mallory A Ellis, of Mount Dora, Florida, husband Darrell and their two children had been “homeless” for months before signing a new lease earlier this year.
In her now-viral video, which has more than 4.7 million views at the time of writing, Mallory can be heard telling her sons standing in a front yard, “This is our house.”
Her two confused children both respond, “What?”
A clearly shaken eight-year-old Evin from Florida has become a viral sensation after his heartwarming reaction to his family finally getting a new home
“We signed the lease today. We move in on April 10. This is our house,” Mallory explained.
The news is so overwhelming that Mallory’s youngest son, Evin, puts his hands over his mouth in shock before crying with happiness.
As he jumps up and down, a text appears saying “Many big feelings” and his older brother goes in for a hug.
The camera then cuts to Mallory asking her son, “Are you happy?”
Still in tears, the little boy runs over for a hug, while the mother adds “My heart” in more overlay text.
“It’s our house, we have a house,” Mallory told her family as she panned the camera to show a one-story whitewashed house.
She then turns back to her family embracing on the lawn.
“Are you overwhelmed?” the mother asked Evin, adding, “You’ll have your own bedroom.”
The little boy’s family has been struggling financially since his father was hospitalized for ‘quadruple bypass open-heart surgery’ that left him unable to work
He ran to his mother to give her a big hug after hearing the news and is hugged by his father as he continues to cry
The past year has been difficult for Mallory and her family after husband Darrell underwent emergency quadruple bypass surgery that left him out of work for six months.
To keep food on the table and a roof over their heads, Mallory said she had to work two jobs.
By day she was a paraprofessional educator in a special needs classroom and by night she was an Uber Eats driver.
The family was forced to break their lease and moved into a spare room and garage belonging to a close friend of the family to avoid eviction.
“After living there for 45 days and multiple home application rejections, we were then forced to pack back up and move into a hotel,” Mallory told Storyful.
Mallory gave a short clip of their new home. In a later video, she also thanked people for their generosity when it came to housewarming gifts
Months later, in April, Mallory and her family finally got lucky and were able to sign a lease on their new home.
In a later TikTok video, Mallory described the response to the clip as “unreal” and thanked people for their generosity.
“The love we received… there are just no words for it…” she said.
“The number of people wanting to send us things, our wish list is overrun….
“I am just so overwhelmed with the amount of generosity and love we receive. Like this is insane, you guys are incredible.
“Say what you will about the internet, but people are good… thank you, thank you, thank you from the bottom of our hearts.”