Life Lately

We're still here just pushing through day to day. Both kids had really bad colds last week and Kip was home from school for four days. He did so well this past fall with only one absence from school but he made-up for it with this illness. I really hate the whole absence policy in the district. I end up paying $40 for an urgent care visit just for the doctor to tell me what I already know (it's a virus, wait it out). So then I feel like I paid just to get a signed doctor's note excusing the absences.

Anyone else owe taxes this year? Dan and I have typically always gotten a small refund so we expected the same this year. So we bought a new living room couch preemptively anticipating that refund. "HAHAHAHA!" the Universe said. Murphy's Law in action again. No refund this year, in fact we got slapped with owing several thousand instead. How? We're still not sure, but we already bought the couch so we shifted things around. We'll be fine it's just. UGH. Seriously?

But then, get this! Couch delivery day was Saturday, we scheduled it that way so that we could take the old smelly couch to large item trash drop (only once a month in our town). Dan and I loaded up the old couch into the van and he dropped it at the dump right before the new couch was delivered. And then as the universe would have it, part of the new couch was missing an absolutely essential piece to assemble it. The bracket required to attach one section of the couch to the corner piece was missing. Like, just not there. So Dan had to drive back to the store and instead of them just giving him the brackets they gave him a whole new couch piece, this time with the brackets. 

So the couch is assembled and we love it but now we have a huge useless couch piece sitting in the garage for a whole month until the next large item trash day. Good times. 

Cute new couch and now the whole family fits!

Today, Dan took the car into the dealership for it's tune-up. We just paid the car off so I'll let your imagination decide what kind of expensive issues we can expect for that little visit. 

End rant.

Spring break is at the end of next week. The daffodils and crocus are blooming. Spring is coming and we are grateful. 

The other day my coworker and I were moaning to each other about life and then feeling bad about it. I told her, TWO opposite things can be true at the same time and both are valid. I can recognize and appreciate my privilege/provision/safety AND still be worn out/exhausted/disappointed. Those two things do not cancel each other out and not making space for both just piles on guilt which doesn't help anything. There is nothing you can do except pick yourself up and keep moving...and take the lessons you learn along the way. Like, don't spend a refund before you know you have it. 

Happy Tuesday.