After the fact Mary, here.
If you got a check from your auto insurance, is that "Income" that needs to be declared?
The H&R Block guy didn't ask us specifically about an insurance pay-out (the car was totaled), and we mentioned in the course of tax prep that our car had been totaled and we bought a new car (because we itemize, and if the sales tax had been significant enough, we could have claimed it, but it wasn't, so we didn't).
We thought of it after we received confirmation that the state had received and processed our returns. We'll file an amended return if we have to (and should be able to pay any tax we owe, thanks to the refund), but I hate the thought of doing it.
It's IRS form 2441 if TurboTax won't do it for you. I think it might impact the child tax credit, but we had Section 125 for preschool so we had our deduction that way. I got some tax software in the mail for free (I think it was TaxCut rather than TurboTax), but I'm so used to doing it with PDF forms and a Spreadsheet that I don't want to use the Tax software.
If you got a check from your auto insurance, is that "Income" that needs to be declared?
I really, really don't think so.
I got no tax advice, but I do have this: When Jake had the anti-drug education in fourth grade, he came hom and told me "caffeine is a gateway drug".
Apparently, coffee is to blame for everything. I wish my tea got me high most days, let me tell you.
So, um, Emily sounded like she had a really bad day. I was thinking I'd make a big pot of chili, which is one of her favorites.
She'll get home around 7. I'm supposed to be at knitting and crocheting at 7pm. She's probably gonna need to vent. I can't decide if I should go or not.
Do you want to go to your knitting group? If so, go. Emily can vent when you get home.
Yeah. But, she's been here so much for me; I want to be there for her.
And you will be. After your knitting group.
For billytea: naked mole rats.
They're taking over, I tell you!
Owen is playing with the resin animals I got him when we went to the zoo this morning. He's also got two new words, "bonobo" and "okapi".
Oh, wow. So this is what great parenting looks like.
This makes me laugh because that's exactly how I was as a kid. I think my mother often feared that she'd created a monster.
Hee. When I was a kid I was very helpful. When I got into astrology I started advising my parents' friends on whether the stars said their marriage would last. (I was very sympathetic with the ones in trouble, of course.) Oh, and one time I got hold of a women's magazine and offered my mother and her friends advice on how to deal with any menstrual problems.
But to a first grader, since they're both smoking materials, they must both make mommy high, and "crazy".
He was probably relieved to believe he'd identified an external cause for it.
