Because I value your opinion....

You may remember that in May I posted a survey asking a series of questions about being a stay at home wife and mom for an article I was writing. I was working on an article to help women (and their families) who wished to leave the workplace and return home. I discovered that even though I got some great replies, I needed more answers and more input. I also discovered that I could not cover it all in an article. So now my husband and I are working on a book. We hope to find a publisher, but if not we will publish it as an e-book. We are basically trying to write the book that we wish we had when I quit work and stayed home full time.

But we really need your help!

In the next week I will be posting two or three questions each day in addition to the freezer series and other assorted stuff I like to blog about.

The questions are geared towards women who are at home full time, or would like to be. We are finding that there are a growing number of families making this decision regardless of religious beliefs.

And to encourage you to participate, and to thank you, we are going to host our first ever contest!

There will be three prizes, an e-book and two books that I use all the time and are very helpful to me:

Crystal at Biblical Womanhood has generously donated a copy of her e-book: Secrets to Supermarket Savings. She has been very helpful in teaching me how to save on our grocery budget while still eating healthy, good meals through both this e-book and her blog! (She is also hosting a class in August on this exact topic - I am already signed up!) There is a big sale at her site this week - I talked about it here with a coupon code to get an extra 10%off)

These are two of my favorite books of freezer recipes and will ship directly from either Amazon.com or .ca.

There are two ways to be entered in the drawing for these three great books (I will be posting reviews of them this week!)

1. You will be entered in the contest each time you post an answer to my questions in the comments section, however, each comment must answer the question and contain an email address so that we may be able to contact you!

2. You will also be entered into our contest if you blog about our contest and survey, and link back to us. Please include a link back to this post in your post as I will be adding the link to each question on the bottom of this introductory post. (Please send me an email to Mrs.Pear(at)cox.net with the link to your post to be entered in the contest!)

The fine print.....

All the questions will be posted this week, two or three questions each day, starting today.

Contest closes Wednesday, August 15 at 7:00 PM Pacific time. (Of course, if we don't close comments, keep commenting, but I am just saying that we have a plan!) The winners will be announced next Thursday, August 16.

The contest is open to shipping addresses in the US and Canada.

Also, I reserve the right to quote any comment in our book as this is research, so PLEASE DO NOT share anything you would not be comfortable with us using. We will only use first names or made up first names if we quote you.

We will be hiding the comments once the contest is over so your email addresses will not be left available.


The Questions:

Question 1 and Introduction

Question 2 - What is it you do?

Question 3 - Biggest Fears

Question 4 - Biggest Issue

Question 5 - Why didn't you tell me????

Question 6 - Thank you for telling me....

Question 7 - A Word of Advice

Question 8 - All about the budget

Question 9 - Frugal Sources

Question 10 - Home Management

Bonus Question: Schedules

Question 11 - Your Story