I was just writing a post while sitting on my bed with Henry next to me. I left for a second to check on something. When I came back 30 seconds later, Henry had scooched himself to the computer and started touching the key board. He totally saved the post and then navigated away from it. He could have just as easily published it. Egad!

So if you see something totally random pop up as a post, you’ll know who the #1 suspect is.

And he looks so innocent!

I desperately want to redesign the header on this blog (it doesn’t even match up with the actual name of of the blog, which is Feeding the Soil!), but I am seriously lacking the creative inspiration needed to undertake such an endeavor.

I’m wondering if there are any graphic designers (or wannabe graphic designers!) among you who might like to enter a contest to redesign the header? I’m brainstorming prizes like free enrollment in my Purposeful Conception course? Or maybe a box of maternity clothes? Or a box of books about pregnancy? Or a $30 gift card to Williams-Sonoma + a $25 gift card to Starbucks?

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I know this post sounds like another vapid maternity leave post, but I’m actually here, typing next to my sleeping (although he’s in the process of waking) baby.

But I really want to talk about shoes.

It’s a funny topic for me because unlike many bloggers I know (and non-blogging women, too), I am not a shoe person. I spend a lot of money to get durable, comfortable shoes, and then I wear them for years. For real. Case in point: the shoes pictured above are pretty much the shoes I wear on a daily basis. The picture was taken in India in 2005 (and I actually got the shoes