These memory foam dog beds are a great idea for our four legged canine friends. If and when we get another dog I will make sure that we have one of these around when we need it. I know that memory foam beds do wonders for people so it only makes sense that our pets would benefit from all that they have to offer for them.

Jack is an enrolled agent cpe and has been for almost 5 years, he comes from a well established family from Massachusetts, which makes him a Yankee, but we are trying not to hold that against him LOL! He is now concentrating on his required enrolled agent continuing education, which can be done right online these days, so that he can continue working in that position and save enough money for the big wedding that my sis has always dreamed of and I’m sure that will cost us all a good chunk of change in the long run.

They make a cute couple, it was a nice relaxed Christmas this year. Now on with the New Year’s festivities.

One can only hope that they have replaced those old wooden gym lockers with steel lockers. I have never gone back to my Junior or my High School Locker Rooms, maybe one day I’ll venture in there and take a look and see, just out of curiosity sake. Actually one of my nephews will be attending my old High School in a couple of years, maybe I’ll just hold out and ask him when he gets there. We aren’t all that close but I try and talk with him when I have the chance. I don’t have a lot in common with a teen aged boy these days.

I have found an interesting website – puaforums.com that has a lot of information for people that are looking for a variety of ways to meet people and a good amount of interesting pickup lines to try out. Amazing what the Internet now brings to us, guess it makes sense but it did catch me by surprise, but made for some interesting and entertaining reading for a while last night while eating my dinner and before retiring for the evening. Give them a look-see sometime if you have the need or the want to. I’ll be checking back from time to time at puaforums.com to see what’s new in the pickup line area, not that I need to worry about any of that business any more. Married with children….

When I was expecting our first child, I subscribed to a lot of magazines dedicated to helping parents learn to be good parents. I was really glad that we live in the day and age when so much good advice is so readily available on such an important subject. I remember when my younger brothers were born my parents were reading a book on parenting, and from what I understand it was written by a pediatrician, Doctor Benjamin Spock. I remember reading that when I was pregnant and was rather surprised at the advice that was given; much of that has changed in our generation!

Many of the articles were actually giving advice to the expecting parents about starting to plan out how they were paying for college. Although I still had my baby in my belly, I did read those articles with much interest.  Right about that same time, the personal computer business was just beginning. The option to perform an online scholarship search back then was not available, but by the time my children WERE old enough to be going to college, the Internet was up and running.

Many hours were spent online trying to find grants and scholarships when the time came. The Internet has opened up so many opportunities to the consumer, businessperson, and student. This truly is a remarkable age.

Right now they are getting busy looking for either titanium rings or tungsten rings for the up and coming ceremony. They say that these types of rings are 100% hypoallergenic, which is important to the both of them since they both have allergies and issues with any other type of materials that most traditional rings are made of. Apparently these types of rings have only come about in the last decade or so. Up until then these materials were normally used in aerospace engineering, the medical field, as well as in aircraft manufacturing, but are now becoming very useful and popular in today’s jewelry stores. Pretty interesting and incredible stuff actually, I’m glad I took a few minutes and looked around online a bit earlier today and found a lot of good information on titanium and tungsten rings.

Our youngest son has recently announced his sudden desire to further his education and become an engineer. This is something that he was totally against just two years ago. And guess who he is looking to for financial assistance, guess you don’t even need three guesses on that one. Now as much as I’d love to just fork over the big bucks that it will take for him to become this engineer, we are going to need to start looking for financial aid information, scholarships and grants for engineers to take care of as much of the cost as possible.

The Internet will come into play big time with this adventure. It really saved us a lot of time, hassle, work and guessing when we were researching physical therapy student grants for his sister a few years back. The wife is a whiz at this type of research and I’m hoping that she can work her magic and make this a reality for our family’s future civil engineer. Every family needs one!

Check out this pics that I found online of Ms. Melanie Collins who graduated from Penn State University in the year 2008.

She looks damned good in black leather, wouldn’t you agree?

Of course he still has to pass the enrolled agent examination before any of us gets to excited. It’s a good thing that there is an enrolled agent study guide available to him to utilize on the Internet. And I certainly wish him all the luck in the world in what ever he decides to take on, I’m sure he will put all that he has into what ever he gets himself into.

The first post that Yitz Grossman had on his page last night was about a women Irena Sendler who died in 2008 at the age of 98 and who did so much for the Jews in WWII and who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. She was not selected although President Obama won the year before becoming President for his work as a community organizer for ACORN and Al Gore also won for a slide show on Global Warming. Both great causes, but nothing in comparison to what this woman had gone through and done for so many people during the time of the awful Nazis regime back then.

I have bookmarked this rabbi’s site and plan on going back and visiting from time to time and I would urge others to take a look-see around this wonderful site as well.