Taxes

The good news is we just found out about the tax rebate. Hello $1,800 to the Carver Family!! (We just found out because we have been living under a rock with very little communication from the outside world.)

The "other" news (I won't go so far as to call it bad) is that I still have a TON to do to get our taxes ready. Imagine a checkbook with an extraordinary amount of transactions. Now add to that a business checkbook with less comings and goings but a savings account too. Now picture all of 2007- remember what you did in 2007? Where you shopped? What you spent? Imagine me at the computer entering every single transaction for our personal and business accounts for all of 2007 before we can even begin to prepare our taxes.

Last year at this time, as I was entering in all of 2006, I SWORE I wouldn't do it again. I hereby declare, for all 5 of you blog readers to witness, I am going to keep up month by month for 2008. I am making a testiment for my future sanity. I made a tax appointment so that I would have a deadline (March 11) and the best news is that I am already one checkbook register down and half-way through July 2007. I haven't started the savings accounts or the business but they are so much faster, I always start with the hardest. I figure I have a good 8-10 hours left. Not so bad, you say? It sometimes feels impossible with the girls. Every time I type in that I had a debit card transaction at Hannaford I think, "Why? Why so many groceries? And for the love of God why 3 times in one week? That's two extra transactions!"


I've got my head about me now. I'm halfway. I can do it. And there may even be a tax return to make it all worth my while. The crummy part is that I am already 2 months behind already for entering in 2008 by the month...