So, I mentioned in my last entry that I’m being Audited by the IRS for 2013. It’s for my deductions. I had two businesses that year, therefor two sets of deductions and apparently that’s a red flag. Fan-freakin-tastic.
I’m hoping.... PRAYING, that I didn’t throw anything away when I cleaned out my office to redo it. I have an insanely huge filing cabinet to go through. I will be insanely organized when all this shit is over, that’s for sure. This audit is forcing me to go through every.single.paper.in.my.house. uuuuuuuuuugh.
I keep stressing about it, but realistically, what’s the worst that could happen?
I could owe money back to the IRS.
All my deductions were true, but finding every single receipt and since I work out of my home, every single utility bill… grrr… it’s just so stressful.
AND, next week I’m supposed to sit in front of some IRS guy for 2.5 HOURS. Yes, HOURS while he evaluates every damn thing. I think sitting in front of him is really the worst part, I would have much rather done mail correspondence but apparently that’s not an option for me. :( I’m definitely going to call and reschedule to try and busy some more time. I have a TON of stuff I’ll have to print and my printer needs every single ink refilled, and I really don’t have $100 to spend on ink at the moment.
We are doing good getting things paid. The lord ALWAYS provides. Right when I thought we’d be struggling to pay the $1100 mortgage and the $1100 electricity bill (yes, $1100 for electricity), I got an email to book a wedding! Whoop whoop! Got the $1000 deposit check in the mail Monday. And my mini sessions have been booking pretty consistently. We are doing fine, I guess I just really hate not being able to go to a store and buy whatever I want. I mean we aren’t rich and haven’t ever been “rich” but when business was good, my hubs was making $100,000/year and I was working on top of that, so I never had to go to the grocery store and worry about how much was spent.
This too shall pass, business is building fabulous for my hubs, so I know we will be OK. It’s just getting over this initial start up hump where he has to build the money in the bank account to buy parts before the customer pays, business cards, stickers, shirts… I know it will level out, and we will adjust and be fine.
Until then, I’m thankful that God has definitely been on my side to step up an bring home the bacon.
More not he bright side… I’m making ribs for dinner tonight, and I can’t WAIT!
I also had time to work on my kiddos new play area in the living room a bit and it’s coming together nicely.
More bad, we’re in a damn heat wave. It was 90 degrees by 9am this morning, it’s now about 100 degrees. Yesterday was 101. So, the A/C is cranking, I can literally feel the money flying out of my pocket to run it, but I have a teething baby, both my littles are Gingers and one is only 4 months which means I can’t just lounge in the pool all day till it cools down so A/C or sweating and an even more miserable baby are the only options. I’ll take A/C.
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