About Cindy

I am Christian a soon-to-be 50 year old mom of two sons, Aaron age 21 and Jordan age 18 and a 19yo unofficial foster daughter named Summer. I am happily married to Ron for 22.5 years we have a 2 year old dog named Mushu and we live in Tampa Bay, FL. We are Disney fanatics and Tampa Bay Rays baseball fans. We homeschooled the boys for 16 years, pre-k through high school. I am currently working from home full-time and looking to take on a few more social media clients.

About The Mom Maven

Here at TheMomMaven.com I write about topics that I hope will help you be a better parent. I have lots of easy recipes, you can find them all organized under the Easy Recipes tab at the top of my page. My top 3 recipes are:

1. Easy Crockpot Chicken  How to cook a whole chicken in a crockpot.
2. Sweet Baby Rays Crockpot Chicken Spicy Barbecue Chicken
3. Hot Artichoke and Spinach Dip Delicious appetizer for your next gathering.

I write about family entertainment including movie reviews and game reviews.

• God’s Not Dead movie review
• Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus
• Spot It! game review

I write about Family Travel, especially Florida attractions like

• Walt Disney World
• SeaWorld
• Busch Gardens

I also review products and services that I think are useful for moms and dads such as…

• Beauty Box 5 subscription service
• Old Spice Body Spray
• eMeals meal planning service
• Books

Add to those topics some giveaways, parenting tips and savvy blogging tips and tools and you have TheMomMaven.com!

The Giveaway I am Sponsoring for #UBP14

I have partnered with Blogelina to offer one winner a blog design or re-design valued at $119! To enter to win you must have a Twitter account and then you enter on the Ultimate Blog Party Prize Page for prizes valued at $100-$199.

Here are the rules from #UBP14:

How To Enter To Win A Prize

To win a prize on this page, you must fill out that prize entry form and click on the confirmation link that is emailed to you.

Winners will be drawn randomly from entrants who complete the form and click on the confirmation link that is emailed to them. The party ends on April 11th and we will begin the large task of drawing the winners on April 12th. When the prizes have all been assigned, we will update this page with winner Twitter Handles.

Thanks for stopping by! I’ve enjoyed partying with you!

If you aren’t an official part of #UBP14 and you want to be, write a party post and link it up at 5 Minutes for Mom and join the fun!

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What is UBP11? It is the Ultimate Blog Party 2011 sponsored by 5 Minutes for Mom. It is literally a blog hop on steroids with hundreds of blogs participating and tons of giveaways too! Visit the link above for all the information on how to enter the awesome giveaways.

If you are visiting from #UBP11, welcome! My name is Cindy and I am a happily married, homeschooling mom of a 15yo 11th grade son and an 18yo college sophomore son. I’ve been blogging since 2008. I am also the Connections Director for our church, and I teach piano, flute, clarinet and musical theater to homeschoolers. We are huge Disney fans and since it is 100 miles from our front door to Mickey’s we visit as often as we can.

Please feel free to hang out and look around. I’ve gathered some of my favorite posts to help you get to know me better.
My 900th Blog Post-What’s Next?

All things Disney

Parenting Teens

Don’t forget to follow me on Twitter and Facebook and check out my travel blog.

A Giveaway too!

What is a party without presents? I am sponsoring a UPB11 giveaway but I also wanted to do a giveaway here on my site for UBP11 visitors so…how about a copy of Sam Stern’s “Get Cooking” Get Cooking is Sam Stern’s third cookbook. That fact may not excite you. What if I told you he was only 18 years old when he wrote it and that he wrote his first cookbook when he was 14! The concept behind Get Cooking is rather creative. Sam teamed up with seven of his friends. Has asked each of them for their favorite main ingredient and then he set out to create recipes for them. The book has eight sections-including one for Sam.

This book is written to teens. The goal is to encourage teens to Get Cookin’. The recipe directions are well written and easy to understand. I also love that this cookbook is filled with amazing photographs. The pictures aren’t just of the food either. Since this book was created by Stern for his friends; they are featured in the photos along with the food.

Mandatory 1st Entry: Leave me a comment telling me your child’s favorite thing to cook or bake.

Bonus Entries:Leave a separate comment for each entry

• Leave a comment on any other non giveaway post on this blog, then leave a comment telling me which post you commented on.
• Follow me on Twitter @MomMaven
• Like TheMomMaven on Facebook
• Add my button to your blog 5 entries (leave me a link to the page where my button is)
• Sign my petition to get Rene Syler (former CBS Morning Show Anchor) on Dancing with the Stars
• Tweet this post using the retweet button (and leave me a comment that you tweeted)
• Like this post on Facebook using the button at the bottom of the post
• Blog subscribers, GFC friends and Networked blog followers get 1 entry each

This giveaway is open to US entries only. The winner will be chosen by Random.org. This giveaway ends at 9pm on April 8, 2011.

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It is time for this year’s Ultimate Blog Party sponsored by 5Minutesformom.com. This is my 2nd year participating in the party and it is a lot of fun! I recommend that you join the party too…you don’t even have to be a blogger to participate! Click the link above to see how you can party with us!

If this is your first time visiting…Welcome! What took you so long?

I’m Cindy, The Mom Maven, and I love to share parenting tips, reviews and giveaways and of course…Disney World vacation planning ideas and insights! I am a homeschooling mom to 2 awesome teenage boys, wife to my Prince Charming and…social media addict!

Get settled in your comfy chair, pour yourself something to drink and enjoy looking around my corner of the web. Enter my giveaways and please feel free to leave comments, I love comments.

If you are an old friend…Welcome back! Thanks for stopping by.

You are the reason I do what I do! I love the feedback I get from you on Twitter, Facebook and the comments you leave. If you have a parenting question or maybe you are planning a Disney vacation and have some questions…just ask, I am here for you!

A party isn’t fun without presents and there are tons of giveaways associated with Ultimate Blog Party ’10 so make sure you check in on the main party post at 5minutesformom.com and learn how you can enter. I’d love to win a lot of them…heehee but my top choices in each section are:

International Prizes: #2,8,10 though I would like any blog design type prize.

US/Canada Prizes: #1,39

US only Prizes: #40, 14, 15, 26, 23, 35, 71,47, 6, 23

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It’s Party Time!! Today marks the beginning of the Ultimate Blog Party 2009.
I have been looking forward to this for a few months.

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