Hello Everyone, and Happy Mother’s Day! I hope you have the opportunity to spend some time with your Mother and loved ones today. Unfortunately, my wife and I live a long distance from our respective Mothers now, so we will have to make do with a phone call. They did receive the cards and flowers we sent, so at least we were able to send a little something to them.
Blogger meet up. This week I had the privilege to meet a personal finance blogger in person. Ron, from The Wisdom Journal, happened to be in my area and we met up for a lunch at City BBQ, a local BBQ joint. Ron is a true professional and it is easy to see why his blog is called The Wisdom Journal. We sat outside on a picnic table situated under an overhang and talked for about 3 hours. It’s amazing how much you can learn in one sitting!
Ron is a great guy, and hopefully I will have the opportunity to meet up with him again sometime. 
If you aren’t familiar with his blog, I highly recommend visiting and subscribing. Here are a few of my favorite articles from his site:
- 12 Things I Learned By 42 That I Wish I Knew At 22
- 5 Massive Money Mistakes I’ve Made
- An Open Letter From Employees To Bosses
- Ron is also writing a book, and you can help!
Mother’s Day – A Day of Appreciation
In honor of Mother’s Day, I thought I would share a bunch of articles about Mother’s Day. I hope you enjoy them.
- Mrs Micah says “Any day is Mother’s Day.” I agree.
- Lazy Man tells us to celebrate Mother’s Day the way she would want you to.
- PaidTwice talks about Marketing and Mother’s Day.
- WiseBread shares some insight to the inventor of Mother’s Day and how she felt about the mass marketing it brought on.
- Pinyo shares a couple Mother’s Day gift ideas.
- Quest for Four Pillars has a couple frugal Mother’s Day gift ideas.
- Frugal Dad recommends sending flowers as a Mother’s Day gift.
- Get Rich Slowly shares some Consumer Reports articles regarding common Mother’s Day gifts.
- My Super-Charged Life shares Valuable Gift Ideas for Mother’s Day.
- Don’t Mess With Taxes has a few Mother’s Day gift ideas.
- Single Guy shares a poem in honor of Mother’s Day.
- If you forgot to buy a Mother’s Day gift, Madison is giving away a $50 Amazon gift card…
I guess it might be too late to use many of these gift ideas this year, but there are a few ideas that you may be able to use next year! 
This week’s carnivals:
- The Carnival of P2P Lending #9 – Cinco de Mayo Edition, was hosted at Lazy Man and Money. My article, The Future of Lending Club – Will they Survive and Thrive, or Crash and Burn?, was included.
- The Festival of Frugality #124 (link no longer available) was held at Frugal for Life. My article, Save Money with Refurbished Electronics, was included.
- The Carnival of Personal Finance – Bloggers on Surviving the Squeeze was held at US News and World Report. My article, How to Dress For an Interview, was included.
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Hey Ryan, thanks for highlighting my blog and some of my articles! I truly enjoyed meeting you and hope we can get together again soon.
I appreciate all the help you’ve given me and the tips and the plugins and the advice and the encouragement etc, etc, etc. You have a great blog and a great perspective on the world of personal finance as well as business in general.
If I can ever help you out in any way, I’d consider it an honor.
Glad you two got to meet up.
I’m hoping to meet all my PF friends by the end of the end of the year…though that’s not quite a realistic goal.
Thanks for including my Mother’s day piece.
It is good to see a lot of great articles about what to do for mom on Mother’s Day. Thanks for including mine!
Thanks a lot for the link Ryan.
Mike