OK, I'm ready for the recession to be over!

I don't know about everyone else, but I'm really ready for this recession to be over. We just got our Property Tax Bill in the mail. It's over $400 more than it was last year! Our state has decided not to give a homestead exception as well as our county. Add on top of that the fact that our state has made teachers take furlough days, and we are all pretty sure they will do it once again before the year is over. It just seems like the government is making things worse behaving this way! How can they expect to decrease people's salaries while raising taxes? And the services that the taxes go to are in decline and you can't get helped when you need it because of lack of staff/services.

We are going to try to have Sophia in December. Either on the 28th (that's what I want) or the 29th (that's what Justin wants). So, it will probably be the 28th-ha ha! Of course, that's if she doesn't decide to come earlier. This decision was made so that I don't end up having to pay 2 years worth of deductibles and out-of-pocket maximums. Plus, we can then claim her on this year's taxes. Of course with the way things are going, they might eliminate that perk! I would make this a separate paragraph but the recession is causing my blog to not allow me to do that...Chasen is doing well. He's going to preschool 3 days a week now. Pictured here is his weekend treat of cocoa. He really loves the stuff-as you can tell! What you can't tell is he's really sitting there without any pants on. With this recession, we can't afford pants...