The tax man cometh

So last night about 9:30 (WAY past my bedtime) we sat down to work on our taxes through Turbotax. I was a pretty cranky participant but Jon wanted to get it done so I agreed.

We made it through all the federal stuff pretty smoothly and had a decent refund going.

Then we got to the state taxes....and it all went downhill. Very downhill very quickly.

Yep, we owed 3,921 bucks. Hello! What??!!

I deleted it all and started freaking out. We decided we would pay to have somebody do it becuase that couldn't possibly be right...could it???

Holy Moses!

So I mope off to the bedroom and all I can think about is the new baby and maternity leave and where the heck were we going to get any money. And then my wheels start turning....it imported our federal tax info into the state document...what if I didn't enter something right on the federal part???

I run back out to the kitchen - don't turn it off - I might have missed something - log back on.

Yep - I didn't enter any of our state or local wages or taxes!!!!!!! I told Jon that's what he gets for making me stay up late!

In the end, Ernie already had our 3,921 bucks and we'll be getting $383 of it back.

However, women at 34 weeks gestation should not be thrown into that kind of panic.