D-Day

He was there when we weren’t looking. Two months old!!

The first day we babysat Dallas!!

That’s how old this little guy was when he came into our lives.  We thought I would be taking care of him for only a few weeks and here we are almost three years later. He’s gone through so much. His mom “said” she wanted him back about a year and a half ago. Those were the hardest six months ever. I didn’t know if we would even see him again. When he came home with his grandma, we were the first place they came!!  What a wonderful surprise!!

         Dallas at 2                              A few days before his 3rd bday                         Another at 2

 Since that time over a year ago, we have gotten the privilege of taking care of Dallas on the weekends and a few times for a whole week at a time.

About six months after Dallas came back home to his grandma, one of the times she came to pick him up, she asked me if we would be his guardian if anything should happen to her. We were honored and glad Dallas would get to stay in our lives. A few months after that conversation, she must have been doing some thinking because she asked how we would feel about actually adopting him!! She loves him for sure, but she knows that she has to work quite a bit and staying with her would mean him being raised in daycare, which isn’t at all terrible, just not what she wants for him. She sees how excited he is coming over to our house and how far he’s come in being more social.  She explained that she still wants to be his grandma!! She just wants to be the traditional grandma. Where he goes to visit for the weekend or she comes over to babysit every now and then, but we raise him. And he would be our son!!

In a month the court date is set for his mother’s rights to be permanently terminated.  We, all of us including Dallas’ grandma, have no idea how to proceed, but I know that if it’s Gods will for Dallas to be a Hall boy then He will guide us!! I’m sure it won’t be easy, but it will be so worth it!!

Please pray:
- the termination hearing goes smoothly
- we can get an idea of how to proceed with the next steps to bringing Dallas home, if it’s Gods will.
- if it’s not the Lord’s will, that He would clearly close the doors and give a peace about it.

We are so excited about the next chapter of our story and for 2018!!

❤️ Rachel