Wexelberg and her husband thought they had come to the end of the most difficult trials in their lives. After many years of infertility and desperately wanting to be parents, the Wexelbergs adopted their son Christian in 2005. Their family finally felt complete and the couple began a new season in their lives as the parents of an active little boy. Then, in March of last year, Wexelberg’s husband Mark was out for a Sunday motorcycle ride when a girl in a truck ran a stop sign and collided head-on with Mark’s bike. The impact broke 23 bones in his body and required three surgeries to place metal rods, screws and plates in his femurs, pelvis, ankle and knee -procedures that literally put him back together again. While the doctors have been encouraged by his year-long progress, Mark still has a long way to go in the healing process.

“The title song was actually inspired by the third chapter of the book of Habakkuk,” says Shannon. “I have an idea of how Habakkuk felt in those verses.” “Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen, and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Savior.” Habakkuk 3: 17-18. The chorus of “I Have a Song” states the commitment Shannon has to hold on tight while she is on this bumpy ride.

“I have a song
And I’m singing to my Savior
Singing to the One who set me free
I have a song
And my heart will ever praise Him
This world can never take this joy from me
When all else is gone
I have a song”

As much as I love that song, my favorite on the CD is “This Is the Day”. For me it is one of those perfect start-my-morning-off-on-the-right-foot kind of songs, it helps me focus on God and His purpose for my day.

If you love great inspirational music that speaks to your soul then you will enjoy “I Have a Song” by Shannon Wexelberg. You can purchase the CD on her website or you can win it here.

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This giveaway will end June 13, 2010 9:00pm EDT and the winner will be chosen by Random.org.

Disclosure: I received a CD for the purpose of this review BUT I listened to all of the tracks online so that I could give my CD away to one lucky winner.

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On my trip to Disney World last week for the Princess Tiana event, we listened to the Audio Guide to Main Street USA during our 1.5 hour drive. Lou, a talented wordsmith, takes his listeners on a very detailed, educational and entertaining trip down Main Street. Many people don’t know or understand why each window and store on Main Street USA have names of companies and their proprietors etched on them. Walt Disney used these windows as the credits of the “show” that is the Magic Kingdom. In these windows are the names of people who are important to the Disney family, the history of Disney animation and Walt Disney World itself. Lou explains every window and door on Main Street USA.  He explains the history of the different stores and buildings as well as the vehicles that travel up and down the street.

If you are a huge Disney fan, a history buff, or even someone who may be visually impaired-you want to own these audio guides. I pride myself in knowing a lot about Walt Disney World and every time I listen to Lou’s audio guides I learn something new. Here is a preview of the Main Street USA Audio Guide.

If you would like to purchase your own set of all 3 audio guides you can do so on the WDW Radio site.

Even though I would like to keep them for my collection, I have decided to give away the Audio Guide to Fantasyland and the Audio Guide to Adventureland to one lucky reader of The Mom Maven.
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Album Tracklisting:
1. Cry Me A River
2. All Of Me
3. Georgia On My Mind
4. Crazy Love
5. Haven’t Met You Yet
6. All I Do Is Dream Of You
7. Hold On
8. Heartache Tonight
9. You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You
10. Baby (You’ve Got What It Takes)
11. At This Moment
12. Stardust
13. Whatever It Takes (bonus track)

My favorite song on the CD is “Haven’t Met You Yet” Check out the video.

In my opinion, the CD is good some songs better than others but, it didn’t blow me away like I was expecting it to. It has found only moderate rotation on my personal playlist. My husband came in the house while I was writing this post and said that Glenn Beck has been talking about how awesome this album is all day on his radio show and now he wants to borrow it to listen to it too.

You can order you’re copy of “Crazy Love” right from Michael’s website. Happy listening!

Disclosure-This review was written as part of a promotion through One2One Network. I was provided with a copy of the CD so that I could review it. All opinions in this review are my own.

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I love Harry Connick Jr’s big band sound and this CD full of romantic classics doesn’t disappoint. This CD is great for a quiet evening at home or as background music for a dinner party. I know you will love this CD.
Album Tracklisting (Originally performed by):
All The Way (Frank Sinatra)
Just The Way You Are (Billy Joel)
Can’t Help Falling In Love With You (Elvis Presley)
And I Love Her (The Beatles)
(They Long To Be) Close To You (The Carpenters)
Besame Mucho
The Way You Look Tonight
First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (Roberta Flack)
Your Song (Elton John)
Some Enchanted Evening
And I Love You So (Don McLean)
Who Can I Turn To? (Tony Bennett)
Smile (Charlie Chaplin)
Mona Lisa (Nat King Cole)

My gift to you is to make this giveaway as simple as possible.
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This giveaway ends Monday October 5th at 10:00pm and open to residents of the US only. Good luck!

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I am a music teacher so I know the power of teaching all sorts of academic subjects using music. I love this CD! Jill’s lyrics are catchy and very educational. The musical styles run the gamut from jazz, to rock, Latin and rap and everything in between. This isn’t just litle kid music that quickly becomes annoying to mom in the car. The varied musical styles and catchy lyrics make it a great CD to listen to on the way to school in the morning or when you’re running errands. My teens even enjoyed listening to this CD.

The song list for Get Me Goin’ is:
1. Healthy Is Good for Me
2. Get Me Goin’
3. Water
4. Beat of the Body
5. Slow Food
6. The Bone Rap
7. Special Glasses
8. The Fellowship
9. Superpower Vegetables
10. Energy
11. Soda Pop
You can stream the music here.
Check out Jill’s promotional video:

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This giveaway is open to residents of the USA and the winner will be chosen by Random.org on 9/22/09 at 10:00pm. Winner has 48hours to respond. Good Luck!

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Set in 1987 in a legendary Sunset Strip rock club, a small-town girl meets a big-city dreamer and they fall in love to the greatest metal songs of the 80’s. The musical is an arena-rock love story told through the mind-blowing, face-melting hits of Journey, Bon Jovi, Styx, Reo Speedwagon, Pat Benatar, Foreigner, Twisted Sister, Poison, Asia, Whitesnake and more.

“ROCK OF AGES” is an interesting mix of great rock songs with a slight musical theatre twist. Constantine Maroulis is a rocker and he and the rest of the cast do a very good job in re-creating classics like “Just Like Paradise / Nothin’ But A Good Time”, “Sister Christian”, “We Built This City / Too Much Time On My Hands”, “I Wanna Rock”, and “We’re Not Gonna Take It”.

You can check out the making of the Original Broadway Cast Recording of “ROCK OF AGES.” by clicking here. You know you need your own copy of this rockin’ CD so get it here.

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Cari from Two Under Two, Whew is the winner of the “It’s Hip Hop Baby!” DVD and CD! Stop on over to her blog and congratulate her!

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BHB is their debut album on Hollywood records. I’ve been anticipating the release since a friend of me told me about it and I watched the video on their website. Their sound is a pop/rock mix. It is very easy to listen to and very upbeat. You can hear and feel their dance background in their music.

Each track has it’s own unique feel, which is a nice change from all of the cookie-cutter CDs on the market right now. Mark Ballas wrote four of the song’s including my favorite-track 5 Longing and the 80’s sounding Birthday. Track 11, Underwater, was also written by Ballas and features his more flamenco style guitar playing. Ballas and Hough co-wrote tracks 3 and 9, Closer and Breakthrough. The band collaborated on track 7, Fall which has more of a rock feel.

Check out their website, order it here or just pick up the CD from your favorite music retailer. I think you will be pleasantly surprised.

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