Congratulations, y’all – we have successfully survived another transition to daylight savings time! We may be sleepy, but we made it. Personally, I love daylight savings time. I’m all about the longer days and extra sunshine. However, losing that hour of sleep sucks. At least the time on my my alarm clock automatically resets. Actually, now that I think about it, I’m lucky it did. I have a new alarm clock that I’ve only been using for a couple of months and I didn’t even give it a thought when I went to bed last night and didn’t set a back-up alarm on my phone. Fortunately, my clock did reset, my alarm went off as it should have, and I made it to church on time. Of course, I was patting myself on the back earlier for having reset the other random clocks in the house when I realized I haven’t reset the one in my car. Oh, well. I’ll get to it eventually. (Changing the time on a couple of our vehicles was so unnecessarily complex, we just didn’t bother.)

Now to enjoy the next eight months before we fall back to shorter days and longer nights.

When Kenn and I married, I asked him when his various bills were due. He replied, “I just pay everything at the end of the month.” Yeah, that’s not how due dates work. So, I took over the finances and almost thirty-nine years later, I’m still the money lady. Sadly, part of handling the finances is taking care of the income taxes. I still remember the days of doing the taxes manually and pulling my hair out over the insanely complicated formulas for determining various entries. Who even came up with these ridiculous computations? I am extremely thankful that there is now software that makes completing income taxes relatively pain free. Now, if we could just not owe the federal government every year.🙄 At least we usually get some sort of refund back from the state to offset a little of the pain of what we owe. Even better, I don’t have to deal with this again for a year!🙌

So, daylight savings time: love it or hate it? Income taxes: do you do them yourself or use a tax preparation service?