*AFamilyAndPlaceToCallHome

Sorry I'm going to sound like a run-on sentence. So hi let me introduce my 👪 my name is Deana then you have my husband Dale along with our beautiful daughter Ireland. We're going to do a little backstory on Ireland so I started babysitting for Ireland when she was about three I had known her Bio Father somewhat since I was a kid I had got reintroduced to him when I was an adult because my mom was babysitting for him and for health reasons could no longer take care of Ireland so she asked me if I would like to take over for her to which I happily said yes however upon taking over I learned a lot about Ireland's past in the three little years that she was here some pretty horrific situations by this time she already been physically mentally an emotionally abused as well as sexually mom had already lost her rights due to the abuse and her bio father has been in and out of prison her whole life she been in foster care once and upon me and my husband taking her in we found out she was only eating cold ramen noodles out of a package she had not taking bath in days she was spoiled and soaked in urinated clothes constantly never had her hair combed never knew how to brush her teeth she didn't know what it was like to have anybody care for her. At three years old she was running a sex offender trailer park by herself because her biological father would be too doped up to even take care of her. This is the point where me and my husband stepped in and became her voice we made it very clear to her bio father that unless he could change his ways in this situation could get better she is to stay with us so he found a better place to stay on the weekend so he could see her only to have her scream kicking holler to come back to us because she didn't want to be with him so he call us back on the phone and asked us if we could please take her back and she did not want to be with him of course we welcome her with open arms. We got her in school she goes to the doctors regularly she gets all the care she needs and all the love other family the one thing she really wants more than anything is for us to adopt she is now going to be 13 years old and he has been out of her life for quite some time now we have permanent guardianship but she wants more than anything to have her last name we want more than anything to give it to her but adoption can be very financially stressful however for her 13th birthday we would love to be able to present her with our last name. And as for her bio father you guessed it back in prison I don't think we'll ever learn and he's definitely not allowed to be around our family we have taking her from Night Terrors and wetting the bed to praying loving life having friends a being able to feel safe Ireland says once she gets our last name is when she'll feel the most safe when we finally adopt. Please every penny we'll go to this beautiful little girl and make all of her dreams come true and our dreams as well any money raised over the $5,000 goal will be used for her college fund she is an amazing softball player and plans to go pro one day we're going to be there every step of the way to love and encourage and guide her through the grace of the Lord life and happiness. Me and my husband as well as Ireland thank you for taking the time to read this and for your donation have a very blessed day.