MommyFest and Contest Winner

Yes its really over, can't we stay just a little bit longer. MommyFest 2008 is over. I am already looking forward to the next Blog Party, please invite me, please, please.....
What a great week it has been. I have attempted to visit as many participants sites as humanly possible (way too much time on the computer this week). I have found many places to go for support and help in my everyday life, my health and in my business, oh and my favorite helping kids with business. Those were just the "guest" speakers. There were so many great sites out there I have bookmarked, joined or Feeded I can't wait to continue on in this Mommy Blog world.
I will be starting my soon, stop by and check it out if you get the chance, maybe I will need to have a contest over there soon.
Thank you so much for all those who stopped by to visit me, I have all the comments, links and twitters recorded. The names are in the bucket the winner to be announced very soon. Okay here we go and the Winner of the $75.00 Visa Gift Card is..............
Angie
Congratulations to you, I will be contacting you to find out where you want this to go.
Thank you to everyone who entered, I hope we can do this again soon.
Good luck with the all the other contests, there sure were tons of great ones out there. Have fun and check back often. Maybe I'll have to run another contest.

Contest

Here is what I have to offer for my Mommyfest Contest on my blog.
How does at $75.00 Visa Gift card sound to you????

Here is how you enter.
Every comment of value received during MommyFest will get 1 entry to the contest (don't forget the leave name and email information)
If you provide a verifiable link from your blog/site to homeworkermother.blogspot.com that will award you another entry in the contest (make sure you let me know, so I can check the link and again I need contact information).

At the end of MommyFest all entries will be placed in a hat and a name will be drawn for the winner. I will contact you via email to get shipping information. The prize will go out to the winner Saturday May 17, 2008. I will also post the winner on my blog the same, so check back at the end of the contest to see if you are the winner.
Odds of winning are based on number of entrants.

Shoppers Hotline

Since we are participating in Mommyfest this week, I will try to gear my blogs towards helpful, useful information towards Mother's again.
Something I have been participating in now for almost a year is Shopper's Hotline.
Based in Chicago, Shoppers’ Hotline is the consumer market research panel of Information Resources Inc., one of America’s leading market research companies.
Shoppers’ Hotline was started in a handful of consumer retail markets in 1979 and now, over 25 years later, Shoppers’ Hotline has over 100,000 household members and represents consumers across the United States. By participating in Shoppers’ Hotline, you represent thousands of American households and provide manufacturers with valuable insights about consumer purchasing and attitudes.

How it works: You sign up for the program - once you get approved - Shopper's Hotline will send you a scanner to use. After your shopping trips you scan your items and enter a total, place the scanner back on the base and you are done till the next trip. You earn 4o points per week doing that, you can earn another 15 points per week recording prescriptions and/or free samples. They also send out surveys occasionally and all those points get added together and everytime you hit 625 pts you can request $10 on a debit card kinda thing. It's a small amount of work for a small amount of money, but every little bit helps.
They also have sweepstakes and stuff for scanning.

Don't forget about the Mommyfest Contest I am running. See post below.

Who is Internet Secret Investigator- Mommyfest

I am a stay at home mom who is trying to find her way into being a work at home mom. I have 2 wonderful, but very active, little boys ages 3 and 2. I have loved being home with them and doing all that fun stuff like play groups and gymnastics, but now I need to find a way to be able to be here for them and make some extra money for the household and the future. I currently have a very small accounting practice (payroll, data entry, bank rec's), but this is generally a work at someone else's home business.
So now here I am on the internet with my blog homeworkermother.blogspot.com and my website secretsworldwide.com, using this as a central location to provide useful information and internet secrets to others out there struggling, whether that be with family or work.
I also am a meetup up organizer for our local community group meetup, I am helping out my community participating in a strategic planning committee. I have also volunteered many years in the Elmhurst Relay for life.

5 Things about me

1. I love being home with my kids, but need to get back in the "money" world again.
2. I love chocolate, ice cream and cookies
3. I have way too many cookbooks and I'm not the greatest cook, I have gotten better.
4. A distant relative of my invented or brought Rump Roast to the market
5. I love taking walks to think, relax and exercise, they always clear my head.

What I've learned since I became Mom

Well lets see

1. I can survive on no sleep and no coffee, but not on the same day.
2. You WILL always love your children no matter what.
3. Strawberry milk puke doesn't come out of the carpet (we have 3 stain spots now, I guess I should stop with the stawberry.
4. Your life IS changed forever
5. Your children will find the pens, markers, ect no matter where you hide them.