Taxes, Tears, & Trashcans

 

 

Belly Week 19

 

This last week has been just a teeny bit stressful. We recently went through a tax audit for year 2010 for Rhett's taxes. Since we were not married at the time and our taxes were seperate mine had nothing to do with it. My taxes are cut & dry anyway but a farmer's not so much. They say you should keep farm records for 8 years (I think). This was for only 3 years ago and we had to do just a bit of digging and looking for some receipts. If you remember from my new years resolutions one thing listed was be more organized with paperwork. I do have to say every year I get a little better and better. Our stuff is in fairly good order but no means perfect in any way. In a little under a week we got together everything the irs man wanted to review. He was at our house for 6 hours on Friday & 4 hours on Monday. I know Rhett & I were both dreading it but overall it was a lot less painful than we both anticipated. At one point when looking at the income their was a big discrepency not in our favor. The tax man says oh this is bad.....if you can't explain this then we are going to have to open up another year for review. Rhett was almost sweating and me almost crying. I just didn't understand how he came up with such a big difference on the income bc I am extremely good at keeping track of every check we receive. 10 minutes later after he recalculates the numbers....Guess What.....the tax man made a big huge mistake on his calculator. Talk about give a person a heart attack. I think he apologized like 5 times for upsetting us for no reason. I am sure glad for the most part the  process is over. Huge shock we are getting a refund too because of a different discrepency on our return. Yay for us and yay for Baby because the $ will go towards the furniture or diapers or god knows what else the child is going to need! Enough about tax talk.

 

Have had a few crazy dreams lately but it is difficult to remember all the details once I wake up. I do know one involved lots of cookies which is odd bc I have not been craving the sweets at all.

 

During church I always feel like I get a little emotional during the petitions. Not sure why but when Father Clyde says we pray for favorable weather for our farmers it always gets me. It might be because when we started going to church again Rhett said the one week it made him feel emotional when our priest said that one. Who knows I am an emotional basket case 24/7 lately so it doesn't take much.  Maybe it was because Father said we pray for all our nurses and anyone who serves our healthcare industry. Boom that's me so it hit me personally. If you are a person that I speak to on a regular basis it's no secret I am a tid bit unhappy at my job. I would love a new one, I feel like I need a different job, I pray for a new one constantly. Regardless of what it was this past Sundy I could feel myself getting a little choked up but I held it in and kept it together. Then the choir starts singing a song and by golly the waterworks started.......I don't even know why I was crying but I couldn't stop. Rhett looks over at me and is thinking what in the world is wrong with you. I have come to realize being pregnant might make you a little CRAZY!!!!! I finally got it together and thank goodness round 2 didn't happen when the choir sang their 2nd song. Please tell me I am not the only one crying in church because of music.....Fess up pregnant ladies and mothers.

 

I came the closest to throwing up 2 times in the last week that I have the whole pregnancy. Forgot about a lunchbox in my car that had some shrimp in it. After sitting in my car for a few days the smell was pretty rotten. I kept the windows rolled down the whole way home from Sparta. Once I got home I dumped the nastiness into the trashcan then almost puked into it. YUCK!!! I didn't do it but it was very close. I immediately took the trash bag outside but still it stunk up our kitchen so badly. After several hours, lots of febreze and a dishwasher run everything was back to normal. A few days later I was changing a  febreze scented trashbag and after catching a whiff of it I started coughing uncontrollably. Again came so close to throwing up but I didn't. I feel for anyone who is sick during pregnancy bc just being nausous those 2 times was enough for me.

 

Last but not least!

I had a Norwex party on Monday. It was a lot of fun having people at my house because we never have any parties. Thank you to everyone who came and had a fun evening! Huge thank you to my Mom & sister for helping prepare everything!!!! Lifesavers!!! If anyone is interested in purchasing anything please let me know.