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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Tax Season Blues

I thought about titling this "Ode to Tax Season," but then I realized that I would have to actually write an "ode" and I don't do poetry. In fact, I really really stink at poetry. It's even hard to come up with jingles at girls camp, that's how much I stink at rhyming. Okay, so I can rhyme. It just doesn't make a whole lot of sense:)

You get the picture.

For whatever reason, I need to exclaim to the world the hardships of tax season. I just have this quelling urge to do so.

It's almost 6:00pm, I'm still doing laundry, no hubby in sight (poor guy. Not sure who tax season is the hardest on, me or him), filthy urchin children outside somewhere in the fields, and no dinner in sight.

It's not surprising that there's no dinner in sight. I hate to cook, and tax season is the biggest and best excuse to not make dinner. Fortunately my kids like cereal, so guess what kids? Cereal again!

But when I hear moaning I know that I've taken the "cereal for dinner" too far. It's just so hard being a single parent! Every year I have full and final appreciation for every single parent out there, male or female. It's all got to be the same experience right?

On to the frantic duties of the evening: baths, YW, activity days, an activity days meeting afterward, referree-ing, coercing, and trying not to lose my temper. Baths with the boys in particular I hate because I always inevitably end up wet. They have been banned from my bathtub because it was used as a swimming pool and all the water somehow got jettisoned out of the tub onto the floor, leaving a mass of water on my tile. And I mean A MASS of water. When questioned it was the other's fault.

I need to get away. I need to REALLY get away. "Tahiti, with your tiki torches and your tiki huts, your blue blue water that any tired mama with tired eyes could see all the way down into your ridges, your sandy beaches that beckon my toes to dig deep into the sand to find the cooler depths.... and yes, your guerilla fighters...I would even take my chances with you. :D

I think I just miss my best friend. And then the government extends the date to the 18th.

Just shaking my head.

Stupid government.

If you're one of those that stands in line on the 15th, waiting to mail your taxes, then you are that same person standing in line on the 18th, mailing your taxes. So I ask, What....IS....The....POINT?

I don't get it.

Someone think of the poor spouses. Please? Pretty please?

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