ZOE MOON shirts!

ZOE MOON shirts for SALE!! She is coming soon so place your order!!!!!!!!!

I know a lot of you have been asking for new Zoe Moon shirts! So, we have decided to make it happen.

Once again, we will be doing pre orders ONLY. We will sell them for the Month of April and will place our order come May.

We have two color options for the adults and one for the toddler and youth shirts.

 

Adult Grey

Adult Plum

Childs/Youth Slate

Adult shirts (s,m,l,xl,xxl,xxxl): $25

Toddler/Youth (2,4,6,8,10,12): $17

The shirts are not pre-shrunk so they will shrink 1/2 a size.  For the kids shirts I got all of my kids a whole size because they ran really small! 

To Order:

Step 1: Email the color, quantity and sizes of shirts you want, home address and a phone number to Kristy @ KristyJeansonne@me.com . 

Step 2: Mail a check or drop cash off to us. I will reply to your email with our address. 

Remember orders will not be submitted, unless paid in full.

Thanks for Everything! It has been so much fun being on this journey with all of you! I LOVE seeing everyone in their ZOE MOON shirts!!

Referral Day!!

March 30, 2012

will post soon....

It is RENEWAL time!

It has been a little over 15 months. We are at the part of our journey where papers have expired and renewals are due. We have already met with out social worker and we are in full swing with updating all of the necessary paperwork. It isn’t that much fun but we are handling it just fine. When we started this process 18 months ago, I NEVER thought we were going to have to read the renewal guidelines. I didn’t even save that packet. 

One of the positive things about the renewing of paperwork, is that it has brought the whole vibe back up in our home. We are currently at number 8. Which is very very exciting. I actually feel like we are close.

We have decided to change our request for our referral. We are opening up to a Female 0-24 months healthy or minor medical needs. I am very very excited about this change. I finally feel totally at piece with our request. I am very excited at the possibilities of getting a toddler or a newborn. 

I am excited for this year to come. I think our world is going to be rocked, but our family is ready! 

A whole year has gone by.

Celebrating waiting for Zoe Moon, we joined with some of our amazing supportive friends and took a huge chance of going to the melting pot for cheese and chocolate fondu. Believe it or not it was a success. The boys all did amazing! It was very enjoyable and a great way to celebrate! 

Another month has gone by.

We still have had no movement. We still remain at #12. 

The last few weeks have been good for me. I was afraid I was starting to become numb to the adoption world. I had no emotions. I didn’t think about it. It was becoming distant. Last week, two great things happened. Our friends that Brannan’s who have been in Ethiopia for about 55 days found out they are cleared and can now come home with their sweet boy Zane. I am so excited, I can not wait for their arrival which is THIS Saturday! The other thing is the Created for Care Retreat is coming in January and registration was on Sept. 1. Last year the retreat sold out in 48 hours and I was lucky enough to have gotten a spot in the last hours. So, this year everyone was awaiting registration and I was super eager to get a spot. I stayed up till 11 when registration opened and got a spot no problem. When I woke up the next morning I found out that the retreat sold out in 9 hours! 400 moms! This retreat was GREAT for me last year and I am so excited to see the moms I met last year. So that was a week full of adoption butterflies. 

To make it all better then that. I had three amazing friends help us celebrate our DTE of 11 months. Our sweet friends Andrea, Lacey and Emmily put together a booklet of memories for Zoe! and we had cupcakes to go along with them. I can not wait to sit with the boys and fill in our thoughts about ZOE and write about the love we all have for her even before she is here. 

I can’t wait to meet you my sweet girl!  

10 months

little snippets of my thoughts...

I have never waited for something for so long.

I don't think it is a matter of being patient anymore. I think we have been super patient. Now it is a matter of feeling like something is missing. That there is a part of our family that isn't complete. There is a hole and a really cute pink room that no one is living in beside all of our "stuff".

I know she is coming, I know it will be worth the wait, I know it is in God's timing...

The other day the boys and I tied 4 balloons together and sent them up into the sky. We are hoping they made there way to Africa.

Once again, on the 24th we ate ice cream. An anonymous friend helped us celebrate Zoe Moon day with a gift card to tutti frutti & a note that read "Waiting sucks. Ice cream doesn't". I thought that described all of our feelings perfectly.

Oh yeah, I dreamed about her last night. She was a little baby and my mom was holding her. I was crying while watching them together.

Nine Months and we are still waiting...

Honestly, I never thought it was going to take this long. I know, neither did you. There have been so many changes in the system I do not know what to even say any more. I don't know how long it will take. 

The rainy season is approaching which means the Ethiopian government will close Aug 7th through the end of September, early October. During that time, no one can go to court, but people can still receive referrals and embassy dates. So, we wait. and wait. and wait. 

but in the mean time we celebrate... we have been waiting NINE months 

We were ready to celebrate with ice cream BUT instead an amazing Lady baked us some super special cookies! Toni these were the cutest thing ever! The boys especially LUCAS loved them! 

Cute Story: Last night, we had only four cookies left, but there are six of us. So, the boys got half a cookie and Brian saved him and I each a cookie to enjoy later while the kids were asleep. So, don't know you I go into the kitchen and shout to Brian, "Lucas is eating OUR cookies!" You have to understand these cookies are like GOLD they taste AMAZING! Anyway, so he took one bite out of a cookie. We took it and put it back on our plate for later. Then we started to put the kiddos to bed. Nate was having a rough time at falling asleep, so he kept getting up and wanting random things. At one point he wanted water, I told him to go into the kitchen and drink from his cup. Of course, I got distracted and didn't realize his "water break" was taking a few min. to long... thats right he was in there chowing down on OUR cookies... we couldn't even punish him because would just cracked up laughing and helped him finish the cookies off...