Sorry, I haven't been updating as much as I would have liked. Instead of posting, I have enjoyed the company of my husband. He's leaving for D.C. tomorrow and will pretty much be gone for the rest of April give or take a few days in between flights. He literally will be home for a day before he flies out to his next trip. We will see how I am doing with this traveling business by the time the year is almost over.
This weekend was beautiful! We were outside for most of Saturday and Sunday we went to the park. The yard is mowed, trees and bushes have been pruned, the flowers and veggies have been planted. Thank goodness for the rain, I have a hard time remembering to get out and water after a few days.
I filed my tax returns last night. I was having trouble with one of the sections, and Ben wanted to see how the return would change if we filed separately. In some cases, you can lower your tax bracket by filing separately. It didn't work for us. When we changed the filing status, our refund turned into $5,500 OWED. It was changed back pretty quickly, and all is well. Normally, I wouldn't think of filing tax returns as a romantic night but it turned into a pretty nice trip down memory lane. When you file online you have to give them the information from last years return so that they can verify that you are who you say you are. I had to go to the cabinet where I keep all the important forms and drag it out to the computer. It was fun for Ben and I to look through each year's packet and see just how far we've come. We filed our first joint tax return in 1995. Our adjusted income was a whopping $11,000. How in the world did we pay for and apartment and a new baby on $11,000 a year??? Anyway, we laughed at all the the different places we had lived and all the crummy jobs that we had to have and we decided that we were happy to have gone through all of it. After 14 years we still have each other and we also have four beautiful, happy and healthy children. Who knew that doing taxes together could be so rewarding??
3 comments:
that gave me a warm fuzzy feeling. Hugs! I laughed not too long ago looking back at our first year's income when we moved to Texas and asked that same question "how did we survive?" - the answer: CREDIT CARDS, hehe!
Sounds like a great night with your hunny!! And yeah, I need more updates!!
Awww, you're right. Who knew doing taxes could be so romantic? hehehehe. Ditto what gel said. More updates please. :)
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