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February 15, 2013

Weekend Reflections: Celebrating Chinese New Year

Dominique Parenting and Kids, Weekend Reflections

The kids

This week we celebrated Chinese New Year and welcomed the Year of the Snake. This year’s celebration was more sombre then last year. There wasn’t any fancy meal preparations for Chinese New Year eve dinner. We didn’t cater food or cook special delicacies for the reunion dinner. In fact we decided to cook something simple and have the dishes that the kids loved to eat instead.

Tiger girl in her 2nd CNY Costume

This year Tiger girl didn’t just have one Chinese New Year Costume to wear. She had four!! She could have a new set of clothes for each day of visitation which we had.

Tiger girl’s 3rd CNY costume

She loved this costume as it was the most comfortable to run around in.

Tiger girl with both her grandmothers.

It is really fun dressing up a girl for a festive occasion. Do you like dressing up your kids too?

What has been on your mind this week? Join in this week in our Weekend Reflections linky below.

February 15, 2013

Lose Weight, Stop Stress and Make Better Love: 5 Easy Steps by Training Your Brain

Dominique Book Review Self help

Book cover

Lose Weight, Stop Stress and Make Better Love: 5 Easy Steps by Training Your Brain by Frank G.Sommers,MD is an easy to read which gives you tips which will change your life. The title is a one line summary of what the book encompasses.

The book starts off with teaching you about the steps on how to stop stress.

The steps which will help to reduce stress are as follows.

Step 1- The crucial Role of Sensing

Step 2- Breathing (Deeply)

Step 3- Thought Stopping ( Removing the negative thoughts)

Step 4- Positive Self Talk

Step 5- Soothing/Relaxing Imagery

Simple isn’t it!!

These five steps will help you in your attempt to lose weight and be a better lover too.

My thoughts.

I found this book to be an interesting read and the steps given by Frank are really easy to follow. It all boils down to having the correct mindset in order to achieve what we wish to obtain. It is all in the mind and once that we can overcome this obstacle we will be able to lead better lives.

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