Post 1 - Welcome to my blog!!

Hey there!! My name is Jess, and I'd like to welcome you to my blog! I am a 25 year old pregnant woman, who as of today (October 23, 2015), am 36 weeks +1 day pregnant and almost at my 40 week mark! I live in the south western area of Ontario Canada, live with my boyfriend, and this will be our first child. I found out earlier in the pregnancy that I am expecting a little girl and that the due
date is November 19^th of this year, which his me really antsy at this point since there is always the possibility of being early.

It was a huge surprise for Brandon and myself when we learned about our to-be-baby-girl. Especially since we had only JUST been together for about 2.5 months. Mind you, we had known each other for 4 years, and we had dated before, so its not like we met on the street, went for a coffee, and the magic faeries descended upon me shouting 'SURPRISE!'. It was also a shock since I had been on birth control and measures were taken, but yet things still happened. Even though the timing was not what I would call ideal, I do not in any way regret my decision to keep her, I’m extremely excited to be having my daughter. Things had happened in my past that had me thinking that I would not ever be able to have kids, so to find out that I would be having my first child made me very happy, though at first terrified. After a quick adjustment to the idea though, it was like a party in my emotional center!

Just hitting the 36 week mark, reality really strikes you on how close your date is. When you think about it, most people didn’t even know that they were pregnant when they are 4-5 weeks pregnant, and here it is, only 4-5 weeks left till meeting baby face to face (provided that baby isn’t early or late). Throughout my pregnancy I had really taken to reading up on blogs, watching vlogs on youtube, and looking up ANYTHING pregnancy related since I prefer to know what I am walking into and possibilities of things going not as planned. This of course drives my boyfriend up the wall since he insists on 'taking things as they go'. Everyone knows that you have to plan some of the stuff though. To just 'take it as it comes' will just lead to stress later… at least for me it does.

One thing I had noticed while browsing these b/vlogs, is that while a lot of people talk about their experiences (which I did find interesting and insightful), there wasn't a lot of talk about how they managed to get things in order before baby arrived. So, knowing that there are many other women doing the same thing as I have since I found out about my surprise pregnancy, I thought id give my view of how I managed things.

I'd like to talk with you about things that can help with managing your home in general. So a lot of this is great to do to keep you on track for baby, but you don't NEED to be pregnant to apply these things to your life. I live with my boyfriend in his rather tiny house (I say tiny because, like most men, he likes bulkier furniture… which makes storing things like high chairs, play yards, etc rather difficult). So living in an area that has such little space for storing baby furniture, I plan to cover things like decluttering, organizing, space & storage management, and key features to look for in baby furniture when going for your registry or buying your own things, among other things. Of course I’ll be talking about some things like interior design ideas, some DIY projects, money saving ways to keep things in check, and basically how to keep yourself (and your partner) sane through the hormone ruled 9 months until your bundle of joy makes his/her debut. I will of course take notes from my boyfriend (because goodness knows I was not easy to handle) on how he had kept himself calm, cool and collected instead of sending me off to my parents for a night or two. I'll post that, and I do of course invite anyone, men and women, to give their input on anything that they would like to, positive or negative. I appreciate feedback!

You can send me a message via email on my blog or leave comments, which ever way suits you of course. I do not mind being corrected on things by the way. Id you notice something I put up is incorrect, feel free to notify me by either way that I just mentioned :) I also hope that if I get enough followers on this blog, i'll start vloging and would like to start doing monthly giveaways to those that tune into both. This would of course be done after baby is born as it'll take some time for things to pick up, but yea, stay tuned and it's something to look forward to!!