Alyson's 1st Birthday Giveaway - What to Expect Books

~ Posted on Friday, September 7, 2012 at 12:00 PM ~

My sweet baby girl is going to be 1 year old on 2nd September 2012!

To celebrate her birthday, I am hosting some awesome giveaways on my blog.

The giveaway will be open for entries from Sept7th until Sept 30th.

ONE lucky worldwide winner will receive a set of these books:

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"Grow in the grace of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Get to know him better.
Give him glory both now and forever. Amen." (2 Peter 3:18 NIV)

Music Review - Light for the Lost Boy (Andrew Peterson)

~ Posted on Friday, September 7, 2012 at 7:51 AM ~

I would like to share my feedback and review on another awesome album by Andrew Peterson that I get to review. The album is called “Light for the Lost Boy” and was released on August 28th, 2012. Here goes my review...

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Light for the Lost Boy (Andrew Peterson)

One of the songs in the album which caught my attention is "Rest Easy". I've been playing this song over and over again and just find myself relaxing and feel peaceful. The lyrics are so meaningful and touched my heart.

To be honest, as a SAHM with 2 kids and pretty much occupied with caring the kids 24/7/365, not to mention unofficially teaching my 3 years old boy since few weeks back, my 1 year old getting more and more mobile and seeks my attention all the time and also trying to maintain my blogging passion, I was just listening to this song and soaking in the lyrics of the song and all of a sudden, it makes me feel like God is telling me these words from the song:

"You don't have to work so hard
You can rest easy
You don't have to prove yourself
You're already mine
You don't have to hide your heart
I already love you
I hold it in mine
So you can rest easy "

Some other noteworthy songs in this album are "Come Back Soon", "Day by Day" which has an upbeat tune to dance to, "Carry the Fire" and "Don't You Want to Thank Someone".

Andrew Peterson's songs are very very nice to listen to (not to mention his sultry sand papery voice which is dreamlike hahaha), wonderful lyrics which is definitely inspiring and uplifting! Go on, get a copy, no regrets to get this album!

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You can purchase it from The Rabbit Room store or the iTunes Store.

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I received no monetary compensation for this review, I was provided with the 10-track album in MP3 format to assist my review. All opinions expressed in this post are my own. Please do your own research when purchasing products, as your opinions may differ from mine.

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Buying Things Via Postal Services

~ Posted on Friday, September 7, 2012 at 12:20 AM ~

Do you know that we can buy things online via our postal website? Prior to this, other than to mail out our letters and parcels, I only know we can buy stamps, postcards and renew our driving licenses and that too, you need to go to the post office to do so. For online transactions, I always thought our postal website is just to allow us to track our parcels, find out the fees and FAQ on shipping and so on.

Just last year, I saw a friend of mine posting up some pictures on her Facebook page. It was a personalised stamps with her daughter's face on it and she got it via the postal services! That was totally a cute idea!

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Just like the australia post catalogue, for Malaysians, if you check out our national postal website, you can also find that they do personalised stamps services too!

It is not difficult to do the personalised stamps as everything is automated and the website takes you through the steps with easy to understand instructions. All you need to do is just upload the picture you wanted to be printed on the stamps and made the payment before you get the stamps.

I was contemplating to get it for a close friend of mine who just gave birth to her third child then but due to time constraints meaning I did not have enough time to order it online as I need to get a nice picture of her baby so that I can upload it into the post website, I got her another present instead. But personally, I think it is a very thoughtful and creative idea as a gift to someone.

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Do you buy things from your postal services?