Where does the time go?

It’s amazing how little free time you have when you are caring for a newborn. Believe me, I’m not even doing that much (just ask Tiffany) and the day’s seem to fly by. Here are some recent pics of our girl. The one in the glider is at the one month mark. We’ll take a picture every month in that chair to compare so that should be interesting to watch her growth from month to month.

Looking back at some of the older pictures, it’s amazing how much she has changed since she was born. It’s also amazing how many diapers you go through. I think someone needs to come up with a Mr. Fusion that can run on dirty diapers. The amount of dirty diapers in landfills all over the country has to be astronomical. I think a lot about an old co-worker of mine that had triplets a few years back. They must have been buying diapers by the case weekly. 

Natalie continues to sleep through the night, but could probably do a better job of napping during the day. She can get cranky by the time bedtime rolls around which is when I get to spend the most time with her, lucky me. We’re now over 5 weeks after birth and bills are still arriving from the hospital, just got one today . I’m hoping they stop by the time Natalie gets off to college, but just in case I did start her 529 plan a couple weeks back so she’s all set for the JUCO of her choice....

I was working on our taxes yesterday and got the pleasant surprise of finding out that none of our medical bills were tax deductible. I guess they have to equate to more than 10% of your income to make them deductible.  That was sort of depressing, but I’m sure the people that make a million a year and have $90,000 in medical bills aren’t too happy either. On the bright side the jerk who lies about his income and claims he makes 30k a year when in fact he makes 70k gets to deduct pretty much everything and pay no taxes.The dirty little secret of the tax system is that people making less money are more apt to cheat on their taxes because they are less likely to get audited which  is why 50% of the population pays ALL of the taxes and why 10% of the population pays 85% of all the taxes. I know this because i deal with a lot of these people on a daily basis and when we ask to see a tax return it shows they made 20k last year, but their driving a new SUV they paid cash for. That’s okay  though we contributed tens of thousands of dollars to these folks retirement and entitlement accounts this year. So don’t worry about the guy or gal who isn’t claiming their entire income, they’re all set.

Hope you like the new pics!