Today was a great day! I started the day off by helping to get the kids up and ready for school - packing their bags, making their breakfast, helping to get them dressed, etc. Then Jonny and I prayed for Mommy, Nate & Aliana - that they would have a good day at school, be good, healthy, etc.
Jonny and I walked to the bus stop, caught a bus downtown, walked to the DHL office and mailed our tax return off to the US. It had been done electronically, but the return never came. We started calling, checking, asking questions and found out that there had been an error on our return and it was rejected - but no one ever was told. Soooooo frustrating! We had been waiting and waiting for that money. We really need the money. We found out that it was now too late to e-file over again. We are in a jam. God knows and will work it out.
So, we got the return fixed, printed out and signed. Today we shot it off to the US as fast as we can. They will process it and then snail mail a paper check to my mother-in-law. She will eventually find it in our mail and deposit it for us. It could take a couple of months, but at least we know and have dealt with it now. It will be great to have it.
Also, Heather worked long and hard on processing a bunch of backlogged medical reimbursement receipts. She got that all finished today, I got them all photocopied and stapled together, and packaged up. Tomorrow they will go in the mail. That will be some more money in our pocket - eventually. Good to know that it is coming.
I also lost my wallet last week. I have been searching high and low for it, retracing my steps, talking to everyone about it, turned the house upside down looking for it, etc. but could not find it. I monitored all of my credit accounts and no weird activity was going on, so I was not too worried. Today though, I finally had time to call all the financial institutions to cancel those cards and issue new ones. It will be a pain to live without them for a time, but at least it is in motion now. It will be great to have that all wrapped up.
And the biggest victory of all - we had no idea how we were going to pay for repairs to the engine on our STL SUV - so we had looked at all the options we knew of, prayed and fasted, and at the urging of our awesome Area Directors, we carefully filled out some on line forms and wrote some e-mails to the powers that be in order to find some funds. I sent them on Sunday night in order to have them waiting for people when they arrived in the office Monday morning. I was wanting to speed the process along as best as I could, but I had no idea that I would hear back to fast. I got e-mails back first thing in the morning! And they were positive. : )
Turns out that STL already had money set aside for repairs to the vehicle. None of us knew about it, but it was there! So, the funds are already in process. We should have them in a day or 2. I texted the mechanic to let them know to go ahead with the repairs. I can't tell you how jacked up I was!
There were lots of other things packed into the day, but over all, it was a day of great news, great victories, and great amounts of work getting done.
Well, tomorrow is another day and there is a ton of work yet to be done.
I have to get to sleep now.
Peace and happiness everyone -
Good night!
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