Amy J. Bennett

Ok, I really hate my picture plastered at the top of this page, so maybe I’ll post another entry to push it down.

We didn’t do anything spectacular this weekend up at home. We did finally get to visit with our friends D&D that has twin girls. The girls are still smaller than Emma even though they are almost 4 months older. They didn’t really play together, just around each other. I don’t think they are all old enough for that yet. D is starting to show as she is a couple months pregnant. I bought a pink necklace from her. It’s quite a weakness when I go over there. I usually end up buying one. She makes them just my style! I need to show some pictures of some she has done for me. Actually, she made that necklace I am wearing below with the green sweater.

I got my hair colored yesterday. I think he did a great job doing it, but I don’t think I like this color on me. I think the gold color kind dof washes me out. Scott likes it a lot, so I’ll probably do it again, but anyway, here it is…

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Thursday night Emma locked herself in our bathroom. It was one of the scariest moments I’ve had with her. Just last week Scott and I were saying this was going to happen. Lately she has been closing doors. And often she closes herself in a closet, screams and I let her out. Thursday night I went looking for Emma because I didn’t hear anything (that alone spells trouble). Sure enough, the light was on in the bathroom, the door was shut and I couldn’t get in because she had also opened the first drawer with makes a block to the door. I could open the door about 1/4″ (maybe even smaller) but that was it. She wasn’t making a sound so I called into her. Nothing. I started panicking. I went into the closet and got a clothes hanger, just what I told Scott I would do if this happened and called Scott at work to tell him to come. I barely got the hanger in and somehow got enough friction on the side of the drawer to push it in. I still didn’t hear a peep out of her and when I got the door open she was sitting playing with a bag of makeup she had pulled out of the drawer. I was shaking all over for several minutes afterwards. I have no idea what we are going to do to prevent this. We need to have the door open the way our air ducts work and I think even with a drawer stop, it would still block the door. That can not happen again. My heart can’t handle it.

I did absolutely nothing at work today. Sat in meetings and training. I had hoped to get a lot accomplished while I was there. One meeting was quite constructive but that was it.

I ran into the previous branch manager of my consulting company. She left after we had our merger and the new company sucked the life out of her. She is starting the East Coast branch for a California company. We are trying to work out a way for me to work with her again. She is an absolute sweetheart. She actually cares about you and really cares whether you get placed in the right contract. I totally trust her with my job. And several people from our company have left to go work for her. I hope it will work out!

MIL had “the tone” with me tonight and I about jumped out of my skin. Ugh! Poor BIL has been taking the brunt lately and I haven’t had to hear it.

Finally, I just walked through the door with completed tax forms. Thank goodness they decided to give us a discount even though they had to do another fed 1040 on me separately. So, the total refund for this year is only $1911 but hey, that’s $1911 we didn’t have before!

We are headed up home tonight for a couple days. I have to go into the office tomorrow for some training and meetings. I’m actually looking forward to it.

I called my friend S this morning hoping I could invite her over for the afternoon for Emma to spend time with H and S and I to talk but I didn’t get an answer and she hasn’t called back yet :(. I was hoping for a good play date!

I can’t tell if this feels like a family member is born or really weird that a Wiggle had sex.

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I decided to take our taxes to H&R Block instead of waiting to go to our old guy back home. What a HUGE mistake I made. It cost WAY too much and the guy still couldn’t figure out our second state’s taxes. I had to leave it with him until they figured it out. I had no idea it would be so expensive. And I had no idea no one in there did not do our second state’s taxes yet for anyone. Our old tax guy had a lot of people that had the second state’s taxes since it is so close to the state line. This whole tax thing this year has not been a good experience.

Ok, I finally got all of our W2s and then realized I haven’t gotten our interest income form from our bank. Argh! I did find some more deductions. Our return is looking quite good right now. I’m expecting $2500 or so. The thing is, we have no big plans for this money except we are saving for a new car this year or a house down payment. I guess those are big, just not immediate plans. I really don’t know why I stress myself about these things.

I bought the book The Strong-Willed Child for some wisdom on disciplining Emma. She is becoming more and more obstinate. I know this is normal for this age, but I’d rather get a handle on how we’re going to handle it now instead of when she’s 4 and uncontrollable. It’s funny, it’s these kind of posts that I think I’ll look back on and laugh.