How Nerdy Are You?

Go to www.nerdtest.com How Nerdy are You? Here is mine, my score was 2? Is that really cool or do I need to get back to study math and science (Oh WAIT, I hate those subjects) 98% scored higher (more nerdy),0% scored the same, and 2% scored lower (less nerdy). What does this mean? Your nerdiness is: Definitely not nerdy, you are probably cool.

Weekend

Have a Happy 4th of July everyone, heading out for the weekend and I will see you all, or talk is more appropriate, Monday

Water Scare

Okay Ladies and Gents I am sharing this as a REMINDER to everyone about the seriousness of children in the bathtub!! Yesterday I was giving my children a bath, actually my husband was giving them a bath, we have a huge tub for the kids (well it was suppose to be for me, but the kids have taken over it) and a see through glass shower next to it. My husband called me in and said he wanted to take a shower so if I could help keep an eye on the boys. I was adjusting the rug next to the tub when I hear my husband say, "get him" Not "GET HIM" or any sound of "YOUR BABY IS DROWNING" just a simple, "get him" which I did not hear the first time, but thank goodness the second time where I looked up and grabbed my baby (15 month old) who had slipped and was under water. Now mind you it was ONLY 2 seconds which this whole thing transpired, but 2 seconds is TO LONG in my book. I first was a little mad at my hubby for saying "get him" in such a calm voice, but after he explained that in the shower he doesn't have contact or glasses, so he saw the baby go down, but he didn't think his head was under because he couldn't see to clearly. Hmmm, still not happy, but at least understandable! So after of course hugging my baby and holding him I realized how scary that was. I have SO many friends who also have 4 year olds and 1 year olds and they always leave them alone in the bathtub because they figure the older kid will watch out for them. In the seconds I pulled up my baby I saw the look of shock on my 4 year olds face, he was in pure shock of the situation and would of been no help if I wasn't in the room. You hear so many stories of babies drowning and I have to admit I am a worry mom and water is one of my biggest fears for my babies. So everyone hold and give your little one a kiss from me and most important, don't leave them alone around water

IRS Audit Saga Continues . . .

Drum Roll Please ..... As my last post on this issue tells you we have 90 days to get all of our "Proof" to the IRS and re-claim our mileage for '04 and '05. I am a Procrastinator, I will announce that to the world, but even if I procrastinate I at least get it done. The IRS agent when we submitted our '03 told us it just needed to be postmarked by the due date for us to be okay. We meet with our tax guy on the 24th of April and turned in everything to him, he tells his secretary to make copies which we watch her do and he prints up the new tax information all while we wait in his office. (That shows you my trusting nature) He then explains he will send the envelope certified so we can verify the IRS received it and shoo's us on our way. We have till the 30th to have this envelope postmarked. On the 27th I find some more information that needs to be forwarded on so my husband does that for me. Then everyone can take a BIG breath and relax, now I figure I have months to wait before we hear from them again. My mistake, on the 3rd of May we receive a huge envelope from the IRS with all of our stuff in it and a letter stating that, they received our stuff too late and therefore we no longer have the right for an audit and basically gave us a big FAT F. With some more Blah, Blahs explaining that our last option is if we can claim the gave us erroneous information and to expect another letter explaining further. You think things are bad now right, keep on reading. My husband calls the office where the letter came in, the lady isn't in, but the secretary says she can help us. We explain what we received and she tells us to Not worry, it isn't what it seems and she'll have the agent call us, but there is nothing to worry about. Hmmm I think that is a little strange since how are they going to audit us with our stuff?? Being the fine upstanding citizens we are that have not been screwed by a government agency yet, we take the advise, I don't worry and we quit pestering them, just like they asked. Until June arrives with two more letters (four actually because we each get our own) These letters inform us that by July 2nd we owe $6,000.00 in change if we don't pay by July 2nd then more fees/interest/default etc.. will be accrued on our balance. If you remember in the past post, we initially only owed 4,000.00 and change, so they refuse to look at our stuff, they refuse to tell us what the problem is and why they are auditing us and now they just decide to raise it another 2k for kicks and giggles? You think that is bad, they then proceed to tell us in unoffending Irs language that we lied about our kid being alive in '04 and '05, no problem with him being born in '02 or alive in '03, but apparently he disappeared in the IRS radar for '04 and '05. Because of this finding that not only explains the extra 2k they also found out we are lying, scheming parents who really are not parents we can no longer claim this re-appearing, disappearing child or any other child that they believe do not, will not exist. WHERE DO THEY COME UP WITH THIS STUFF? Is there someone in the IRS building that just sits in a corner laughing to himself as he changes peoples lives to his own desire? Would they like to come live with me for a month to prove that my son really exists he has really been with us his whole life and we really do spend a couple dollars here and there on him, which would give us right to claim him in the past and future. We of course go back to our tax agent with all this new information, he says the he believes the IRS did give us erroneous information and therefore we have a right to file a claim. All we want is for them to give us a fair audit, where we can prove that no, we don't lie on our taxes and yes, we really had a kid during the year '04 and '05.

Not a Blogger!

Apparently some of my readers don't enjoy the fact that I don't regulary update on this site. My extreme apologies. I have been very busy right now with clients and have not found the time to blog anything. Okay, Okay that really is just an excuse, the real reason is I have become addicted to a website called mayasmom, which is a parenting website. So instead of spending my time with all of you great boys and girls I have been there, gossiping and laughing about all the moms out there and their kids. I will try to be more diligent here as I know I left many of you hanging with my last "audit" story and plan to continue that today!

Life as a Mom, working that is:)

This was my lunch yesterday, doesn't it look good? I was so excited when I put the boys down for bed and was getting all geared up to eat this, Well at 4:30 when I was rushing out of the house after the boys woke up, I noticed it still sitting in the microwave waiting for me :(

And... Drum Roll please .... This is how my morning is going.... My Little Smurf:)

And yes, I know how to take a better picture than this, keeping the privacy of my boy, and for all those watchful Moms out there, yes I know his stance his dangerous, I fight him with it 3 times a day since he first learned how to stand, move, crawl etc.. Yes we usually tie him down to keep him in the highchair and yes he is Houdini!

I Thought I was a Good Mother

My first baby was born and I thought I was a good mother. I thought I was a good mother when I told my first born bum down on the high chair and he listened. I thought I was a good mother when I told my first born, No, No on opening the cabinets and he listened. I thought I was a good mother when I told him, No, No on eating the cat food and he listened. I thought I was a good mother when the first born was squirming during a diaper change and I told him legs straight, and he listened. I thought I was a good mother when I told my first born don't go past the grass and he listened. I thought I was a good mother because my first born started to walk and I didn't have to re arrange my house, he listened. I thought I was a good mother when I informed my first born to not go on the tile that was too close to the fireplace and he listened. I thought I was a good mother, but then the second one was born...

Being Audited Continued ...

I am trying to continue my story with the boys up, so we'll see how that goes. So the day of the audit comes for 2003, do to another mix up??? Somehow we just get rejected (I believe it had to do with the IRS agent not knowing what he was doing, see story 2004/2005) they forward our file to the next department which is out of our State, but in another State that is over all of Western United States IRS. (Talk about personal care) We have 90 days to send our information into them for another Re-Audit and they are our last stop. Before we find that out we spend 48 hours (yes all day both days) going through our files and pulling out every shred of evidence that we have proving that what we claimed was real for '04 and '05. Our Tax guy meets with the IRS Agent, the IRS agent looks through everything, says our food claim was good, told the Tax guy our mileage claim should work, and our charitable contribution was good. We wait again to hear the final results of the audit. Weeks pass by, then we receive a letter from the IRS, saying BLAH, BLAH, BLAH you owe 2,000.00 in something for '04 and 2,000.00 in something for '05. Remember we paid 2,000.00 + in '05 already and to give you an idea then we didn't make over 50K, but didn't make under 20K so we are below median income, but above poverty. (Not complaining both husband and wife were starting a new business we did okay for that!) So they came back and basically said we owed the same as they said in the first audit letter. We call our tax guy, he is shocked, said he thought the meeting went good and could not understand how the guy could reject all the proof that was in front of his face. So then we call the IRS guy (Well, my husband makes all these calls, I have something of a short fuse and would of either been bawling or yelling 10 minutes into these calls) The IRS guy says the reason he rejected our 03/04/05 is because we claimed the mileage under our personal and not our business, etc. etc. I would of SCREAMED at that point, Thank goodness for a calm husband. So he tells him that would of been nice to know in the beginning, we could of re-filed the mileage and requested that he lets us do that at this time. The guy said no, not a chance, it's to late. In other words he said, I work for the government, I cannot think outside the box, I have no problem screwing you guys over and sleeping at night. Okay so a little dramatic, but that is how I feel. Again my husband said what can we do, he goes nothing I am forwarding it onto the other IRS department out of this state and you are out of luck. Again my husband persists (love that husband) Finally the guys talks to his supervisor, the supervisor tells him that we will receive a notice from this out of state department and within 90 days we can dispute the audit and have them review it. GREAT finally a solution not a screw you answer!!! So I'll wrap up 2003. We do that claim and re-file our taxes showing them that they owe us $300.00. We don 't hear anything for 6 months, then we finally receive a letter that basically says we owe them nothing and they owe us nothing (at least that is our and the tax guys understanding, we are reading code) Ha, so the IRS is so cheap instead of admitting they screwed up shouldn't of audited us etc.. They make it so they wont even pay us our lousy $300.00!!!

Being Audited

We are being audited by the IRS, I am 27 years old and they say less than 1% of the Nation gets audited and they pick me??? Let me share with you my story for the past year and half. It all started when I was 8 months pregnant with my second son. We recieved a notice in the mail that we were being audited for the year 2003 for our charitable contributions and mileage. Side Note-That was the year my husband started his new business so he we were both W2'd and then he wrote off mileage for the new business plus we contribute 10% of our income towards charity plus thrift store donations. We recieve this notice and call and set up an audit appointment. We contact our tax person so that he can represent us and wait for our appointment. My baby is born, we set the appointment up a month after I was expecting my baby so that we could have time to deal with both not on top of each other. Baby is born. Two weeks pass and we recieve a notice from the IRS saying that we MISSED our appointment and our file has been forwarded to another department for our last chance. We missed our appointment??? I guess we had a different date than the IRS on when we were suppose to meet. We contact our tax guy, he calls the IRS and arranges for us to get another appointment in this new department for a RE-AUDIT this August (it is now March of 06) While we wait for the upcoming appointment we recieve a notice that we are being Audited for the year 04 and 05 with this new department also. They are auditing EVERYTHING. As of 04 my husband was a little more self-employed and wrote off more mileage and I had just taken classes and gotten my license and became self-employed. I wrote off everything because I did not make any money that year. In 05 I made some money and also paid the IRS $2,500.00. My husband also became fully self-employed. So we prepare for the August audit, the auditor delays it another month to the beginning of October. My tax guy does NOT want us there and says he will go an represent us. (Aww kid woke up, will continue later...)

I Lied

My son was talking to his grandma, my husbands mom the other day on the phone. I am getting him ready for bed and she is asking him questions. I hear her ask him what he ate for dinner, I wait to hear his response since I had a soccer game and had no clue what his dad fed him for dinner. He answers a sandwhich, with butter and jam. I hear her say Peanut Butter? and he says yes (hmm, probably dad just gave him butter, but good answer son!) Well here is the part that I lied, I whispered to him, grapes and he told her that, so after all since I was on a roll, I whispered, Carrot Sticks. He repeated that also! Yeah give me the Mom award I fed my son a good dinner, Oh wait I wasn't even around when he had dinner and call my crazy, but I highly doubt my husband gave them grapes and carrot sticks with their sandwiches. I'm just lucky he didn't feed them donuts!

Drilling My Toe

I should blog more, actually I should always blog more than I do, but I get busy. Right now I think I would rather go read other peoples blogs than blogging myself. Or even better (sorry blogger friends) I think I might read one of the books I am reading right now. But just to put something out there, I drilled my toe yesterday, sounds crazy right! While playing soccer my big toe was SMASHED and all the pressure of the blood under the toe nail was killing me. Everyone told me that I should go to a doctor and get my toenail drilled and relieve the pressure. Well as I have previously blogged, I spend my $60.00 this month on medical just to get a Mole checked I was not going to spend another amount for my toe. Besided my babies shots are due and I should get him in this month also. (Insurance in the US sucks) Back to my toe, so sadly for me, I think, I had a TON of volunteers when I mentioned I would do it myself. First off my new brother-in-law immediately volunteered, Yeah Right! That would bring him to much joy. Then my Mom mentioned her Dad had done it many times, which I seriously considered. (My brother mentioned later how he has the shakes now and that probably wouldn't of been good) My dad got offended that I wouldn't even consider him (after all he is a General Contractor) and my Sister just laughed at me. Well I got home and my husband mentioned that he just took a drill bit and did it himself when he had that problem. Do it myself? To me that sounds like a GREAT idea. After all then if it was painful I could stop. I was going to buy my husband drill bits for Fathers Day from the boys and what better time to do that when I wanted a more sanitary one to go through my toenail. We go pick up drill bits, titanium and all! I pick the smallest one, since I want to be able to wear sandals still and not have everyone notice there is a hole in my nail. After an HOUR later I finally broke through, YEAH!!! My boys weren't sure what I was doing, but I have a feeling they think I am strange! Maybe I'll get a picture of my big toe with a pin dot hole in it now!

A Mormon for President?

MITT ROMNEY: CAN A MORMON GET ELECTED President Of The U.S.? --By David Shurtleff (Not A Mormon) Heliumites, Bloggers, Political Scientists ... lend me your eyes. I come to criticize Mitt Romney not to praise him. The evil that men do is highlighted by the media. The good is often buried under labels ... so let it be with Romney. The Media has touted that Romney is a Mormon, if it is so, it is a grievous thing and may cost him the election.When the scandal laden Olympics was embarrassing our nation, Romney stepped in and turned it into a showcase-Yet Romney is a MORMON, and surely a MORMON cannot be President. Romney won the governorship of Massachusetts as a REPUBLICAN, yes, in a state that gives us Sen. Kennedy. He showed the ability to work with all people, of all political backgrounds - yet Romney is a MORMON and surely a MORMON cannot be President. Romney saved a state government facing fiscal disaster, bringing economic expansion and staving off unemployment, something this nation could use - Yet Romney is a MORMON, and surely a MORMON cannot be President. Unlike many politicians, Romney has remained faithful to his wedding vows, keeping his commitments to his wife and blessing his children - Yet Romney is a MORMON, and surely a MORMON cannot be President. The twelfth article of Romney's faith, one which he no doubt memorized as a child, affirms that it is his duty to honor, obey, and sustain the law- Yet Romney is a MORMON, and surely a MORMON cannot be President. Romney's faith group is recognized and respected by governments throughout the world, it was so respected that it was miraculously allowed to build a temple in communist East Germany before the wall came down-Yet Romney is a MORMON, and surely a MORMON cannot be President. Romney's church teaches that the constitution is a divinely inspired document and that this nation was established by the God of Heaven. Such respect for our nation and its founding document can make just another politician into a statesman-Yet Romney is a MORMON, and surely a MORMON cannot be President. Romney's religious organization teaches love and compassion for all human beings and provides millions of dollars in aid to many countries. It also sent thousands of volunteers to aid Katrina victims in our own country. That aid is given freely, without regard to the religious preference of the recipients-Yet Romney is a MORMON, and surely a MORMON cannot be President. Wait a minute. What is it about being Mormon that disqualifies Mitt Romney from being an effective president? It is true that there may be theological differences that exist between Romney and others, but he is not running for Bishop, Rabbi, Pope, Minister, Imam, or Pastor... He is running for President.

House Cleaning

I hate cleaning the house, if you picked the thing I hate the most, it would be that. Both my boys are down for a nap and so instead of working, and looking through the internet I should be cleaning my house. Especially since I have been on a week long vacation and so we haven't even unpacked the clothes or food (except the stuff that needed refrigerated) Today was suppose to be the day I got us caught up, instead I took the boys to a fountain park (the coolest things) and then shopping for dads Fathers Day and Birthday (yes lucky him) Gifts. I still plan on cleaning, or more specific putting stuff away, but we'll see. I have a soccer game tonight and with both boys napping I think reading in my book seems a lot more desirable!

Fishn'Flush

So my brother wants one of these, talk about stage fright for my boys!!

Weeding

So I just weeded with the spiders, that is what it felt like, as I'm pulling out weeds in my small little flower box, I am also flipping spiders all about (I'm sure all over me) For reals though, I could see these things running around the brick wall, so I know they are everywhere. Weeding should be a MANS JOB!! Update on dermatologist - The Dr thought everything looked good, he froze the thing on my arm, (before I had a chance to pull it away and ask questions!!) He said it was a beginning of a growth and freezing would take care of it, then he practically ran out of the room. Oh Well, $60.00 for peace of mind is worth it.

Soundtrack of Your Life

IF YOUR LIFE WAS A MOVIE, WHAT WOULD THE SOUNDTRACK SOUND LIKE? Here's how it works: 1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc) 2. Put it on shuffle 3. Press play 4. For every question, type the song that's playing 5. When you go to a new question, press the next button6. Don't lie and try to pretend you're cool... Opening Credits: Tennessee - Arrested Development Waking Up: Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynrd Falling In Love: I Don't Want to Miss a Thing - Aerosmith(Armageddo) Good Love Song! Fight Song: Mama - Spice (Ha, only a little embarrassed!) Breaking Up: Dancing Barefoot - U2 (First time I heard the song, my husband must of loaded it, not bad..) Prom: Cling and Clatter - Lifehouse Life: Eye of the Tiger - Survivor (The Rocky Story) Cool! Mental Breakdown: High - James Blunt Driving: The Border - America Flashback: Renegade - Styx Getting back together: You Must Have Been an Angel - Bob Carlisle Wedding: Song for Neen - Merril Bainbridge (I have to admit I was hoping for Depeche Mode) Birth of Child: Empty Chairs - Don McLean/American Pie Final Battle: That Ain't Love - REO Speedwagon Death Scene: When Love & Hate Collide - Def Leppard Funeral Song: Hanging By a Moment - Lifehouse End Credits: Feel Like Singing - Sandy B/100%Pure Dance So I have a ton of Country in my Zune, and none of them came up!

Memorial Weekend

Did you have a good Memorial Weekend?? Mine was great, went camping, my style, in a Condo!! This summer is going crazy and it is just starting. So I am going into the doctors tomorrow to have a new mole checked out on my arm, I am so paranoid it might be skin cancer. I have two moles that qualify under their possible scenarios, one that is 1/2 colored and the other is a new one that started flaking two days ago. Sounds kind of gross (it really is not) but I'm on high alert, because my good friends her sister died because she didn't get one checked, and my sister-in-law had one that wasn't active removed last year. I am paying 60.00 for just a doctors visit, but hopeing it will bring me a peace of mind also. Wish me good luck!! (Also a little stessed if they want to remove them for testing since we don't have insurance for that and they quoted a couple hundred just to remove it, that doesn't even include the testing!)

Poll

Tacky - To put in registery cards in your wedding announcements?

Mean Mom

I was shopping the other day with my two boys sitting in the cart, the baby in the baby seat, and the 4 year old in the back. I was trying to find a certain toy for a certain 4 year old without him knowing it on a shelve that was anything BUT organized. The boys were playing with each other pretty good, when the baby (8 months) all of a sudden started crying, RIGHT when I found the toy I was looking for. I told him hold on a minute, while I climb the shelves (yes a little bit of trapeze was going on) and tried to grab the toy. It took me a few minutes to grab the toy while the baby cried his, not hurt, but frustrated cry. Finally I reached the toy, got it under the cart without the four year old noticing and picked up the baby. Well, a not so nice mom (I would like to call her the wicked witch) who was with her teenage daughter (about 15) goes, "It's about time you picked him up" Oh, I'm sorry I didn't know I was in the library. Ha, no I just gave her a dirty look and continued to comfort my son (who quit crying the minute I picked him up) So then she goes, "You don't know what your other son did" and walked away. Don't you hate those moments when a million thoughts run through your head of what you should of said... like, "Well why didn't you inform me of what my son did, if you so obviously noticed I didn't see" Or, "Hey, I know my kids, both of them and yes the 4 year old probably did hit the 8 month old with the soft toy he had, but the 8 months olds cry was not of pain" But no I made no comment, just continued on my shopping trip, with my day pretty much ruined because another mom felt it in her place to judge, instead of being helpful or kind!

List of Dislikes

I don't like the word "Hate" but here are a few of my dislikes! 1- Hilary Clinton - No she isn't on the top, just the top of my head right now, for some reason she gets to me. But to give her credit she is a leader and has some of her actions in the right direction 2- Paris Hilton, Brittany Spears, I don't dislike them as much as I think I dislike how their parents raised them 3- Yardwork - Yes I finally weeded my front yard, still have the back to go. 4- Distrust, dishonesty, disloyalty - All traits a friend cannot have! 5- Friend moving out of state - To many to mention, hard to keep up with 6- Whining - Ha, patients is at work with two little boys 7- Exaggeration - Happen to know someone who AlWAYS exagerrates the facts, very hard to not correct them, but ignore 8- Pregnancy- Yes I can't stand all you lovely ladies out there that always say, "I love being pregnant" 9- Being Social - Out of my comfort zone, give me my friends and a party any day, but no friends and a party by myself? SUCKS 10- Immodesty - EVERYWHERE, who told you I wanted to see your cleavage?? Why did I have to cover my sons eyes to walk in the mall, which brings us to 11 11- Victoria Secret - Okay, I love their bras, but can't the clean up the advertisement 12- Excuses on Debt - Why can people not just budget and stick to it?? I have a hard time understand this in people, and with my line of work see it every day. 13- The girl who hyper-extended my knee playing indoor soccer two days ago 14- Boating - Not a water person, but since I own a boat I should get use to it 15- The contractor who messed up my stamped concrete 16- The opinion of Motherhood by the society. - Motherhood and stay-at-home moms rock, I wish I was as awesome as them 17- Cigarette Smoke - The smell 18- Snow - Yeah, it is summer!! 19- Out of Control Children - With their mothers watching them and doing nothing 20- Violence Hey that was very theraputic, I might do one once a month! Give me some of your dislikes