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Absolutely heart this moment!

I secretly snapped this shots of Ben holding his baby sister's hand. He doesn't know I took the pics!

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Few days ago, I received an email from Jeff Gold with regards to his music album and after reading his email that he composes relaxation music for spas, massage and yoga, that has also become popular with parents of special needs kids (mainly children with autism) who listen to help them relax and sleep, I decided to review his "Escapes" music album. 

To tell you the truth, I've never been to a spa before (not kidding!), so I have no idea what sort of music they played at the spa, and my children are not autistic so, my reason for reviewing this is to see whether it does help me to relax or not. Being a SAHM, I'm cooped up in the house (our bedroom mainly) 24/7/365 and I'd love to give this a try! Anyway, my review as below...

* Title: Escapes - Music for Relaxing
* Price: $8.00 (Digital Album), $15.00 (CD includes download of 15 tracks album)
* ASIN: B0027CHR6Y
* Label: Jeff Gold Music

What's good?

* The songs are really relaxing and helps take your mind off from the hectic life and just enjoy the peaceful moment.

* These are some of the songs that I kept playing over and over on my laptop:

#2 - Hanalei (Love this! You can click on the song title to hear it on YouTube)
#3 - Escapes
#4 - Fine by Me Slowly
#7 - Gentle Rain

* In song #15 (Safe Harbour), I could imagine myself sitting on a beach staring at the sunset, watching as the sun goes down and the sky turning dark... nice!!!

Room for Improvement?

* In song #3 (Escapes), there are certain part during the chorus where I thought I heard sighing sound (very fast) - got me creep out initially wondering where the sighing sound came from.

You can purchase it from Jeff Gold's website, Amazon or the iTunes Store.

Now, Jeff has graciously offered my blog readers and visitors a discount coupon code when you purchase his album.

The code for the 25% coupon discount is "Relax" (no quotes) and can only be used in the cart on his website. He is also offering a free song download for "Del Playa" by visiting http://jeffgold.bandcamp.com/track/del-playa-2

I received no monetary compensation for this review, I was provided with the authorised password to download the 15-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.

Alyson is 2 months and 2 days old today...

And 2 years ago, exactly 2 days after my 2 months maternity leave, I quit my IT job.

I still remember how worried and stressed out I was during my maternity leave in deciding whether to continue on with my job or to quit and stay home to take care of Ben. You can read this post on one of the reasons why I quit my IT job (it's in my old blog) for more details.

On the 2nd day after I returned back to work, the decision was clear. QUIT. I served my 1 month notice and paid up the other 2 months (no loss as I get paid during my 2 months maternity leave) and began my SAHM journey from then on.

I am glad I'm a SAHM now that Alyson comes along, at least I don't have to go through the headache and heartache of worrying who and how is she going to be taken care while I work etc etc.

Btw, today Ben turns 32 months old, which marked my 32 months of breastfeeding him, the first 6 exclusively, then breastfed him through my pregnancy and now, tandem nursing him (mostly down to once a day prior to bedtime) with Alyson... Happy 32 months old to my dear Benjamin!

And I'm also being featured in Mumsgather blog today! Go and check out my guest post!