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I'm so happy I get to be a part of the Stop Reacting and Start Responding™ awesome campaign! I will be posting up my review on the free e-book  which I get to review soon as I'm halfway reading it at the moment and yeap, so far so good!

The following is an excerpt from the press release of the Stop Reacting and Start Responding™ campaign just to give you guys an idea of what I'm participating in:

Living My MoMent and Proactive Parenting™ are joining forces to celebrate the launch of Living My MoMent’s new blogger reviewer program and its first review – parenting educator Sharon Silver’s book Stop Reacting and Start Responding™. Silver and Abbey Fatica, owner of Living My MoMent, LLC, will be live on MomTV.com to interact, discuss, and answer questions that the reviewers have about the book and their own parenting issues.

The purpose of the blogger reviewer program is to allow the community to create and maintain relationships with Living My MoMent, LLC and the companies that are represented.

Approximately 250 bloggers handpicked by Fatica will be able to read and review Silver’s book prior to the MomTv show on January 5th. After reading the book, they can pose questions to Silver which will be answered live on air. These bloggers will then take their responses to their blogs and social media networks and share what they have learned from the book as a way to promote Silver’s book to their communities.

Stop Reacting and Start Responding™ allows kids to be kids and parents to remain in authority. When parents are stressed, their minds become flooded with emotions and they react. When parents respond their minds remain clear enough to activate the learning needed for the situation.

Join Living My MoMent,LLC and Proactive Parenting™ on MomTV.com January 5th, 2011 at 9PM EST to gain insight into the most pressing issues parents face today.

** Disclosure: I am a participant in a Living My MoMent campaign for Proactive Parenting™ and have received the e-book Stop Reacting and Start Responding™ by Sharon Silver as part of my participation.

Was browsing through some old pictures in my computer and had an idea to post this up to share with you guys. This is what happened around Christmas time 1 year ago...

I remembered how I got panic initially at the thoughts of Ben turning into a chomping little monster and chomped off my nipples when breastfeeding the moment I saw the first tooth appearing on his gums. Thank God there's only been 2 episodes of this, both are accidents and unintentional (too hungry can't wait for slowpoke mummy) and he has since given mummy 0 problems while breastfeeding!

Time goes by so quickly!! It is over a year already since then and Ben has grown into such a cute, healthy and well behaved little boy!

Mummy and daddy will always always love you dear Ben and dearie, don't need to grow up so fast, let us enjoy a bit more of you!

Previously, we've not been bothered with Christmas tree decorations and just use a very small table top Christmas tree (like 1 feet or something) which was used long long ago when my father in law was still alive and had a car workshop which my MIL will put the mini tree up whenever Christmas time is near. So, with this year, hubby decided we should get a Christmas tree! And so, we've been searching for an appropriate Christmas tree for some time.

Table top? Put on the floor? 3 feet? 4 feet? Artificial? Real one?

How about the deco? Get those already come with the deco? Or buy them separately?

Gaaaa... all these questions...

And finally hubby bought our first proper Christmas tree!

It was a 4 feet artificial Christmas tree, it came with some basic ornaments and has this fiber optic thingy at the end of the firs which lits up the tree in few different colors when you turned on its switch. As in, you see the tree changes colors every few seconds. Nice! And the fiber optic thingy is very safe and Ben could touch it without us having to worry he might fry his fingers or get himself electrocuted... What a bling-bling tree huh?

After the pictures above were taken, my MIL has moved the tree onto the TV cabinet as she's scared Ben is going to pull down the tree. And  I  have also quietly took out and nicely told her NOT to put in some of the ornaments she sneakily added into the Christmas tree.

Just in case you want to know, Chinese New Year ornaments SHOULD NEVER NEVER EVER be mixed into a Christmas tree. Thankfully, my MIL has gotten the hint after my very polite pep talk and has not been adding in her Chinese New Year ornaments anymore...

Now, we only have to put up the Christmas presents below the tree and we're done!

To those of you who are celebrating Christmas, my family and I would like to wish you a blessed Christmas and a wonderful year ahead!

And those who are not celebrating Christmas, have a wonderful holidays and year ahead too!