Some thoughts.....

Things have been very good lately, I am sure it's because we got our taxes and took care of all our bills and bought some nice fun stuff, I have also been able to buy the girls some fun new things and we have been able to go out to nice family dinners. Since Chad started his new job last year we have had a few months that have been harder. Not having the same pay every month makes it hard to budget but we do live sometimes paycheck to paycheck but we make it through. Having a couple months that have not been so hard and being able to not worry have made things easier. Unfortunately I am a worrier. I worry about the dumbest things sometimes but most of the time everything works out. When things are hard it is not as easy to remember that things work out and God never gives us more than we can handle.

A very good friend of mine lost her beautiful daughter last year, and another good friend of mine lost her daughter last month. Tragedy it seems is all around me and gets me thinking about what I would possibly do if I had to experience that. Questions arise, like who would be there for me? I live so far away from my family and we don't have many close friends around here. I am hoping that if anything was to happen my support group would show up. 

Where is my walk with God? well He is on the path that leads to righteousness  I am over here in Laura land, I know that I need to rely, I know the things I need to do change my worrying, but it is so hard to step back onto that path... I feel as though I have been gone for so long that there seems that there is no turning back which I know is false.

I feel God around in the many awesome things that our family is experiencing such as the girls just had a school recognition lunch for having their gpa over 3.5. I know He has been here for me as I have taken the school road for the last couple years. I am set to graduaate in June with my Associates of Applied Science for a Medical Office.

Good things, bad things, mediocre things, they are things that are happening in my life too... I also picked up more hours at work until spring term, kind of sucks but it will be a good thing and good money..... more posts to come soon.... Love LaLa

The start of this year hasn't been the greatest....

Well January wasn't really a bang out month..... I made a lot of mistakes it seems lol.... I have been very spacey lately.

First, at the beginning of month was school fund disbursement and when I found out online how much I was receiving I decided to make a list of all the things we had to pay off. Unfortunately, in November Chad didn't get a lot of work and since he gets paid per job as a mechanic, his check wasn't that great and with Christmas and the bills there wasn't enough so we had to take a loan from his boss. Thank goodness or it would have been a sad holiday season. I paid the bills enough to get through but there was still some of each bill left over. So I made the list starting at top with the loan I minused it, went on to minus the power bill, I was writing all this down on a piece of paper. I listed all the things including the money we would be putting toward a family trip to Disneyland this summer with my parents. I minused everything by hand. At the end, we still have a good chunk left over to have fun. After receiving my school money and paying some initial bills it didn't seem like I had as much money as I thought. After going over my list I had wrote a number at the beginning twice miscalculating by a lot. We didn't have as much left over, I felt defeated and very dumb for making such a simple mistake that made things not as fun for us. 

Not any better, a few weeks ago, I got or taxes ready, I used the same website I have used for the past couple years, Chad got a new job therefore had a new w-2, so I entered the information, finished my taxes, and filed. Only later I realized that I had accidentally listed the w-2 as my own under my social security. I freaked out I was sure that I was going to have to file an amended return, which can take months to process and we are due a return. I called the company I filed with and the customer service rep confirmed my worse fear we had to file an amended return. I cried, a lot and hard. How could I make two mistakes that were so costly it would seem?? I decided to call the IRS and ask them exactly I should do and what was going to happen. I called assuming I would be transferred a bunch of times, if you have every called them it seems like a maze you never get out of. I pushed the appropriate buttons I hoped and waited on hold for a few minutes. A nice man came on, I explained what I had done. He said he needed to ask someone and after only being on hold for a few more minutes he came back and asked if we had filed jointly before. Thankfully we have for the past 5 years. He told me that when it was processed internally in their office they would see the W-2 and his social and see the mistake and fix it there and then send us a letter formally making us aware of what they had done. I felt so relieved after that call. We still haven't gotten our return and it is still being processed as of this afternoon but I feel like this will all work out some how.

Updated 2/12/13 - I found out over the weekend our return is being deposited this week Praise God!!