Hello!  My name is Nikki (aka: The Techie Tutor) and I’m a guest blogger for the BSL today since she’s on her way to her new home.  But, she didn’t want to leave you all without a post so she asked me to find something cool to blog about.  I am honored to do so!

As I began to blog more frequently and learned about all the cool blogs out there, perhaps one of them being your blog (I click on comment links A LOT), Lori mentioned that I could look into a feed reader to streamline the blogs I read most often.   I found Feed Demon and it’s like I am the Editor in Chief of my very own newspaper!  I love reading my blogs all in one place.  But what is even more cool is that each view on Feed Demon is counted as a view of the site I’m looking at.  I know that’s important to many of you out there, as it is to me too!  I like to know that someone actually reads my techno-rants!  So, enough of that babbling, right?  Here’s the link to the full review and how to download this to your desktop.

So, what’s in it for Mom????  A very special ecard!  Hallmark SmileBox is a great program and I recommend the FREE version (you can pay $40 a year for more songs and no ads if that’s important to you).  Just go to the Smilebox site and download the program.  You will be able to send a unique ecard with your family photos on your PC to your Mom or your children’s Nana (see the one I sent below), or pick from many, many others.

Thank you for listening and may you all have a wonderful Mother’s Day!

God’s richest blessings,

Nikki

Our house in the Northeast closed today! Two days before we move. God is so good! Thanks for all your prayers. It was God’s perfect timing! If you have not read our moving testimony, you can read it here!

I have heard a lot about Revolution Money Exchange, but I have not had time to check into it to make sure they are a legit company. I finally took the time to do it and can say that they are legit. They are FDIC approved and there was $25 in my account right away after I signed up. The company is somewhat like Paypal except you can use the account to send and receive money for free.

They are offering $25 to each person who signs up  and giving a $10 referrel fee as well, so go here and sign up to get your free $25! (Then you can afford to buy the cute shoes that are on sale at Shoebuy! )  

Shoebuy.com is having another big 30% off sale for Mother’s Day! Here are some cute shoes for MOM!

Reg $31 Now $22

Blink Reg 43 Now $21

Use online coupon code MOTHERSDAY08 for 20% off! (You can save an extra 10% off if you register during checkout. If you have bought from them in the last 60 days, you automatically get the extra 10% off.) As always, they have free shipping and NO TAX!

They have lots of really cute shoes on sale, you have to check them all out!

Use code 4MOM to get a free 8 x 10 at Walgreens. You can pick it up in store or have it made at a loved one’s store for a mother’s day surprise.

Did anyone camp out for the new Chick-Fil-A grand opening and get free Chick-Fil-A for a year? I decided not to go because we are moving this week and there is not a Chick-Fil-A in Connecticut! I want to know if you did go though!

Chick-Fil-A has possibly the best coupon policy in the entire world. You can use expired coupons there (those awesome calendar coupons) and you can use a coupon that states it is good for another location. Why? They are franchises and they would prefer to get your business at their location, so they will take any Chick-Fil-A coupons. Chick-Fil-A is really one of the only fast food places that my family visits on a regular basis (besides Sonic~ oh my four year old is going to be in shock when he finds that they don’t have Chick-Fil-A or Sonic in Connecticut! I may be in shock myself!)

I am giving away three coupons for a free Chicken Sandwich and since I am moving I am going to include some other random Chick-Fil-A coupons that I have compiled to these blessed winners as well. Leave a comment and you will be entered to win.

Thanks for all your support on this blog! Your comments are a blessing to me.

It’s the first Friday of the month and therefore it’s time for FRUGAL FRIDAY!

If you expressed interest in Samaritan Ministries in a previous comment, please email me your address so I can get them to send you a brochure with all the good info! (There is a link to the right that says email me!)

My Frugal Friday includes my last few trips to CVS. If you join our yahoo group, a coupon for a free $25 gift card with any new or transferred prescription will be emailed to you. Print it out as many times as you want and hang on to it (until it expires on 6-30.) I needed a prescription a few weeks ago for Logan and I got the free $25 gift card. It turns out I needed another prescription this week. Here’s where you have to pay attention if you are new at this: I used the first gift card to buy the 2nd prescription and then I got another $25 gift card with the 2nd prescription! Now I really need to save this one to use on extrabuck deals! (Unless I feel God asking me to give the gift card to someone else and honestly I love it when He does. There’s this beautiful process of making myself give the gift card in order to bless someone else. In the end, someone else gets blessed and we are blessed by giving it. We usually end up getting another one or God gives us something far more valuable than a gift card in return.) For example, a few months ago I gave a friend a Starbucks gift card because she mentioned she was going there. It only had $7 left on it but it would be enough to cover her family. That same day someone else gave me a $10 one. Isn’t it amazing how God works?