Have you ever heard of The Juno Company?  If not, you’ll definitely want to check them out.  They have delightful puppets and their soundtrack for their videos are done by real orchestral musicians.  The music is original, beautiful, and fun!  Some of the little people in my life will be getting gifts from The Juno Company this year!  {shhh…don’t tell them}

Check out The Juno Company!

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It’s time for Amazon’s 25 Days of Free! Everyday between now and Christmas, Amazon will be giving away a free download of a holiday song. These songs will only be available for a limited time, so you’ll want to make sure to download them before they’re gone!

Today’s song is “Ain’t Nothin’ Like Christmas” by Shelby Lynne.

Also, be sure to check out all the other songs in the 25 Days of Free!

December 1: “White Winter Hymnal,” Fleet Foxes

December 2: “Your Holiday Song,” Indigo Girls

December 3: “Winter Games,” Superchunk

December 4: “Oh Come, All Ye Faithful,” Abandon Kansas

December 5: “Angels We Have Heard on High,” Point of Grace

December 6: “Auld Lang Syne,” Chris Isaak

December 7: “Winter Night,” Little & Ashley

December 8: “Joseph Dear Oh Joseph Mine,” Manheim Steamroller

December 9: “Time of the Season,” Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan

Go here to checkout all the other freebies I’ve posted recently!

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If you love Veggie Tales as much as we do at our house, you’ll want to be sure to download The Incredible Singing Christmas Tree.  This album features 16 songs.   Amazon prices tend to change quickly, so be sure to snag this while it’s free!

Click here to get your free Veggie Tales Christmas album.

Go here to checkout all the other freebies I’ve posted recently!

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As a musician and music lover, I am a huge believer in encouraging kids to pursue their love of music!  If you have a budding musician at your house, you’ll definitely want to check out School of Rock.  School of Rock is the national leader in music education and has been teaching kids how to amaze audiences for more than ten years. They offer lessons in guitar, bass, vocals, drums and keyboards for kids ages 7 – 18. The school’s mission is to inspire kids to rock on stage and in life!

Right now, School of Rock is offering a free week!  This week includes one private trial lesson and (30-45 min) and one Rock 101 group class (90 min).   If you’d like to take advantage of this free week, you’ll need to call 866-371-0557 and use code SORBLOG.  You can also complete this online form and input the SORBLOG code in the Questions/Comments field and the school will contact you directly.

You must mention code SORBLOG when contacting the school to receive your free code.  You also need to complete your week by October 31, 2010.  This offer is available at participating locations and is subject to scheduling and availability. Contact School of Rock today for more information.  You can also visit the School of Rock Facebook page or the School of Rock Twitter page to learn more about this unique music school!

Disclosure:  I wrote this post while participating in a campaign with One2One Network.  All opinions expressed are my own…and just for the record, I seriously think you’d be crazy not to take advantage of free music lessons (even if it’s only 2 free music lessons)!

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I love music that stirs me to pour out my hear to God…music that reminds me of the truth of God’s Word and His character and the hope we have because of the cross.  Jeremy Camp’s new worship album We Cry Out: The Worship Project which will be released on August 24th does exactly that.

Hope is here

Shout the news to everyone

It’s a new day peace has come

Mercy triumphs at the cross

Love has come to rescue us

Jesus saves

We Cry Out: The Worship Project begins with the lyrics above (Jesus Saves) and includes beautiful arrangements of worship favorites like Mighty To Save (love this song) and You Never Let Go as well as originals like King Jesus and Unrestrained.

There’s evidence that everyone else feels otherwise—he has sold three million records, charted nineteen No. 1 hits, GRAMMY-nominated and won several major Dove Awards—but Jeremy Camp is tired of himself. Not in any self-deprecating way, but in that positive spiritual sense to which we should all aspire. You can hear him working this out on his sixth recording, We Cry Out: The Worship Project.

“It’s common to say, ‘It’s not about me, God. It’s about You.’ Yet I’m really at that point right now,” Jeremy admits. “The Lord says in Jeremiah 29:13, ‘You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.’ But we live in such a distracted society; we let the world’s noise divide our focus and our hearts. Our generation is in desperate need of crying out to God.”

To get himself out of the way, Camp, a rock artist who’s also an ordained minister, makes an intentional return to worship on We Cry Out just as he did for his second album, Carried Me. In this familiar setting, he often steps back from self-written tunes, choosing instead to celebrate and share the latest praise songs by others that have been stirring his own spirit toward revival.

What a refreshing view!  I’m very impressed by Jeremy Camp and this new worship album.  I had the privilege of interviewing Jeremy’s wife, Adie Camp in March and was encouraged by her heart for her God, her heart for her family, and her heart for people (Check out my interview with Adie Camp) and I have been encouraged by Jeremy’s heart as well!  I hope you will check out We Cry Out: The Worship Project!

Disclosure: I received a copy of  We Cry Out: The Worship Project free of charge for review purposes.  All opinions expressed here were truthful and my own!  No other compensation was received!

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Amazon has Radio Disney Jams 12 for only $4.99 today.  This is a digital download format which means you can download it today to play on your ipod!  It has lots of today’s popular hits that your teen and tween are sure to love (and just for the record, I like lots of them too!)

Make sure you check out the other Disney Jams Collections.  Many of them are only $7.99.

Thanks Good Deal Mama!

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It’s here!  It’s here!  If you haven’t already done it, you can purchase Adie Camp’s CD Just You and Me.  It’s available in CD form or as a digital download.  And if you haven’t already read my interview with Adie Camp, make sure you check it out and enter to win a copy of her CD.

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This past week has been stressful.  It hasn’t been a bad week…just a busy week, but I have to admit, sometimes the busy weeks get to me and I feel overwhelmed.  It probably didn’t help this past week that I was horribly sick which meant that everything I needed to get done took twice as long to do!  In the midst of one those busy days, I found these words running through my head. (There’s a pretty good chance I would have been singing them loudly if my throat wasn’t so sore.)

Jesus, Savior, Protector of my soul, Messiah, Redeemer, You’re the shelter in the storm!

These words come from the song Shelter on Adie Camp’s new album Just You and Me (which will be released on March 9).

The past few weeks, I have had the privilege of listening to Just You and Me and I have found it to be a beautiful worship album put out by an equally beautiful wife and mom.  For those of you who are not familiar with Adie Camp, she is a singer, worship leader, wife of recording artist Jeremy Camp, and a mom to 2 little girls.   She knows firsthand the struggles moms face today.  I think that’s one of the reasons this album is so powerful…and so soothing.  The songs reflect her desire to seek God in the midst of the good, the bad, and the busyness…and she’s had all three this past year.

Her relationship with the Lord sustained her during one of the darkest times she’s ever experienced. In the middle of the recording process, Adie miscarried a baby in the second trimester. After taking a two-week break, she returned to the studio and recorded the song, “Shelter.”

Adie was gracious enough to answer my questions about finding balance in her busy life, shepherding her children’s hearts, dealing with loss, and more…

As a busy mom, what is the one tip you could give to other moms to make
their life easier?

Honestly, my time with the Lord before the girls wake up is crucial to the healthy function of my day. It’s like plugging into the power source and charging myself up, if I don’t do it – the battery dies quickly!

How do you find a balance between spending quality time with your husband and finding quality time with your daughters?

Jeremy and I have been doing this for over 7 years now and I think we’ve both learned to balance a lot of things. The girls obviously take up most of my time, but we try make priority time for just him and me. We often just sit and watch tv together, but we’ve also learned to keep each other in the loop with heart issues. From early on we started asking each other, “hows your heart?” It seems to be a good checkpoint sometimes.  Every once in a while tho, I have to be honest with him and say, “ok, babes, I need some time with you!”

As a mom, one of my greatest privileges is to shepherd the hearts of my
daughters.  I can see how much you desire to see your daughters growing up
loving Jesus.  What are you doing now to shepherd their hearts? And at a
time in your life where you are busy giving all day long to your family,
how do you find time to get in the Word and have your batteries recharged?

With regards to the girls, my mom gave me some great advice once. She said to make sure I was teaching the girls hearts’ and not just modifying their behavior. You can have a child who acts perfectly, but may have disconnected in their hearts.

I often sit the girls down and talk to them about consequences. That every decision they make will have either a good or bad consequence. They can either add peace or chaos to the situation. It’s helped us many times to sift thru drama or to get them to see that it’s better to choose to obey and get a good result…

I also try to take time out to listen to them and build a friendship with them now. If they start talking now, my hope is that they still will when they’re teenagers and of course after those years too.

With regards to my time with the Lord, I need it desperately. I wake up before my girls to read my bible and spend time in prayer. I’ve gone thru days when I didn’t spend time with Him and I fall a part so much faster.

I love that you are so active in your community and that you have embraced causes close to my heart.  With your love for the abandoned and the underdog, have you ever considered adoption?  I’m passionate about adoption and we adopted our daughters from Ukraine.

I totally have. It is definitely something that I would do in a heartbeat. If it’s the Lord’s will for us to, then I totally trust Him to lay it on Jeremy’s heart and mine equally as strong and at the right time. I think for right now He hasn’t, because there are other things that we are meant to be focussed on (“Speaking Louder Ministries“) and we want to be good stewards of the time we have, but as soon as He does, we will!

This past year, you experienced the devastating loss of your baby. What words of hope and comfort do you have for other families experiencing profound loss?

I truly cannot emphasize how God carried me (us) through that time. I read so much scripture that touched my heart so deeply. I can honestly say it’s one of those hard, but beautiful things that God has used in my life to show me the depth of His character and His love for me and I have never felt closer to Him.

Of all the songs on your album, what song (or songs) have you been most impacted by?

Thanks Adie!  I am so appreciative of you sharing your heart and your music with us!

I can’t say enough good things about this album.  The lyrics are encouraging, the music is soothing, and in the midst of my somewhat chaotic life, I’m reminded to take my focus off of me and to put it where it needs to be!

And now it’s your turn to be encouraged by Adie Camp. If you’d like to win a copy of her newest CD Just You and Me, leave me a comment with your “go-to” song when times are tough or you’re needing a little pick-me-up.

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