All Kinds Of Random

As you know this week has been really hard on me due to the long weekend from Thanksgiving and my wanting to be a stay at home mom so bad I can't see straight. On top of my emotions, I struggled greatly to keep up with work. I now get to do the whole explain why your numbers are down thing on Monday (joy joy). Tuesday was a not so great day (to be honest I can't even remember why that was now lol) and I was just over it. My manager asked to speak with me, which luckily she already told us she would be speaking with each of us individually, or else I would have freaked out. Basically I got a promotion, but I will still be doing my same job. She started out telling me the new title and in my head I was thinking, ok what does that mean? I think she expected a reaction but I had no idea what she was even talking about lol. She went on to explain that it also meant a small bump in pay. When she told me my new salary I felt like crying because I'm pretty sure it's an answer to one of my prayers...I'll find out soon enough :) 


Not too long ago I mentioned I was being audited by the IRS. On November 21 I received a large packet from them again. My heart sank and I pretty much just dropped everything to open it. Staring back at me was a letter stating I owed them $4100 (don't remember the exact amount) because I failed to prove the tests they sent the first time. I'll be honest and say that as usual I wanted to cry but one of my first thoughts were, there goes Maddy's Christmas. I'm so very thankful that I was able to realize that the devil was just trying to steal my joy and I refused to let him do so. I couldn't say I felt 100% peaceful, but I was definitely unusually calm and did feel peace about it. Since then I have received another letter from them letting me know they received my information and to give them 30 days to review. I was confused because first they say I owe money now they say to wait to hear back. The CPA who has been handling this situation said to always go by the newest information and to just wait to hear back. IF they say I still owe money then I am going to give him power of attorney and he is going to go fight my case in person lol. Basically from what they say I owe it sounds as if they are saying I can't claim Maddy, when in fact I can. This is def something to pray about because there is no way I can pay that kind of money...installments or not! I can say I have learned a lesson from all of this...use this CPA and let him file my taxes lol. I've had problems ever since I started claiming Maddy. At the end of 2010 I received a letter from the IRS stating someone else claimed Maddy and to make sure I could really claim her. For 2010 taxes I tried filing like I have for years and it kept rejecting me saying someone else already claimed Maddy. I went ahead and filed by mail and here we are today...with a lovely audit. I really need to check out what is going on and make sure somebody isn't reaping benefits off my child or even worse, stolen her identity. 


Tomorrow the hardwood floors are being put in. It's going to take all day so me and Maddy are pretty much banned from the house lol. Not exactly sure everything we will be hanging out with my mom for some of the day to help her out with a work situation. I had thought about taking Maddy to the mall to do her santa pic but I can't find her dress we bought. I really wish she already knew about her car she is getting for Christmas because the weather is going to be decent and she could drive around the neighborhood. I'm sure I will end up in stores buying clothes and shoes for Maddy and come home completely broke lol.


We are officially on countdown to Christmas. I'm a little disappointed because I ordered a countdown to Christmas calendar from an online store and I have no idea when it is supposed to get here. It's an individual who sells stuff online...her clothes and headbands have been featured on teen mom 2 (Bailey Booper's Boutique). It's not at all her fault that I don't have it yet...I'm just disappointed that I didn't order it sooner. I must say I just love her items she sells and plan on buying some more as I can. 


Maddy has been going through some moods lately. Monday-Wednesday was horrible on the way home. She was just so frustrated that she was screaming as hard as she could and shaking and biting herself as hard as she could. Thursday she was in a great mood and didn't pitch a fit. Today was right back to the bad mood tantrum. I'm not sure if it was just getting re-acclimated to daycare after the long weekend or if there's something else going on. It's been a little rough though and I'm really hoping it goes away soon. 


This week we had a large amount of rainfall in the Chattanooga area. On my way to pick up Maddy I took a pic of water in the road. Just as a FYI I was stopped when I took this pic. 

We also had our first chance of snow. I'm the nerd who captured the radar with my phone to document on here. It's crazy that we are already talking snow...where has the time gone? We didn't get any accumulation at my house, but we did see it snow.

I have some pics of Maddy I haven't posted yet so I will end with a collage of Maddy pics :) I hope you all have a great weekend, even though I'm sure I will post pics of the new floors.

 Maddy's Christmas jammies :) I tend to buy a lot of Christmas jammies and have her wear them until she outgrows them. I'm going to try to tone it down this year. I just need to get her actual Christmas Eve jammies and then I'm done...I think.