a blended life

A few things: 1) Yes, we're fine. 2) Have you noticed the influx of new vocabulary and phrases? I feel so unhip most of the time. 'Gender reveal' is one of those things that used to never be a thing. 3) I can't figure out how to undo this blog template and put a new one up. Sorry. 4) My last post was my 500th post. I feel like I should get a gold medal for doing something so voluntary a whopping 500 times.  I finally got some prenatal care going here in Washington. I'm seeing a group of midwives who promote things like water births. I'm open minded, but the whole thing seems so....messy. Anyway, here's video of me telling the girls what the baby's gender is:

My cousin recently posted this on Facebook : "I just completed my goal for 2014! I flossed my teeth 353 days! What should be my goal for 2015?" Or something close to that. You're free to think whatever you want about that particular post/important goal for the year. I've already come to my own conclusions. But it's an intro to something I've been thinking about this week: making goals every January 1st for the year.  Confessions: I hate New Year's resolutions. I'm not going to do them or feel obligated to set goals that I will stress about in a week.  Instead of setting goals and trying to accomplish more than I'm already doing, I started thinking that what I really need is to give myself permission to be more human. I need to let go of ideals, pride, social expectations, and my own darn stubborn attitude more than I need to lose weight or learn Russian.  (side comment: If goals really work for you, I'm so happy for you. Please d...