Today is the day that I embark on an incredibly new, exciting and terrifying journey. Not only is today the day that I will not be returning to work at my 45 plus hour a week job, but also the day a dedicated myself fully to be the best mom that I can be to my future son. Scary, right? So I will start off by talking about myself and goals and such and then lets get this party started! (side note:I am dying inside a little that WordPress will not let me make indentions, must figure this out later.)

So, about me, I am a twenty one year old, soon to be mamma, who is vegetarian with vegan tendencies. I value the earth and all it has to give us, I feel that if we do our best to use what it or she has given us first, we will create a lot less waste and hopefully leave this planet in okay shape for the little ones to take over. I like the idea of rechargeable batteries washing things by hand, and really having fun. Speaking of which, for fun I like to pain abstract messes of awesome, play video games, host board game parties and spend time with my amazing and wonder boyfriend (no worries, we will get to him next). None of this blog or really the life that I am very grateful to get to live would be possible without my awesome lover.

My muffin, J, until I tell him about this blog when he gets home and ask him if it is okay to use his first name, is working full time in a management position to give me the ability to raise our baby and future children the way that we want to. He, sets himself apart from every dad to ever do this because not only is he working to keep up the bills and make sure we can afford all that we need; he is involved. I do not mean oh, he asks me what I did today and how my day was. I mean he has never missed a prenatal appointment, he goes to prenatal yoga with me in an all girl class (this is after we took private classes because there was no such think as “couples” prenatal yoga.) and he is determined to never miss a doctor appointment for our son. Now, example, he is going on a week long business trip at the end of August and he will most likely miss one of our munchkins pediatricians visits. His solution: FaceTime, we are going to FaceTime that appointment with the doctor so that way he is there and he can be present in our sons life!! Amazing, right!! I am telling you, this guy is the guy all your men should be.

What we want is to bring our son, Jaymes into this world in the most natural way possible, and ensure that he learns to value people as well as the environment and can become his own person. So far, we have taken Bradley method classes and done prenatal yoga. We are planning on exclusively breastfeeding for a year minimum and will homeschool using the Unschooling method. We want to bring men back into the business of being involved in the lives of their children, the process of birth and over all the supportive role that seems to have been lost.

I hope that together we can learn and grow and because awesome and wonderful parents!