Giving Up

      Lent is here and it seems like a good time to "give things up". This season which is also tax season, I did not want to give up the cash to have my taxes done. I thought, "I am a intelligent woman, a big girl now, I can do this on my own". So I tried online. After much frustration, I found out I could not do it!! I got hung up on some forms and just felt I was not entering the right information. So I gave up! My sister came yesterday and helped me. We finished it online and I saved a lot by not having our tax man do them. But guess what? I will still be "giving up" this Lent season. I think, giving up quite a bit! To Uncle Sam. I don't know how you can pay taxes all year and still owe more! I guess it's back to HR on Monday to up (again) what they take out of my check to help break even. We only claim our son now as a dependent since the girls are "out on their own", so I guess this is what happens when emptying the nest. So maybe for Lent I will reconsider, and give up complaining about my taxes and be thankful that we have jobs that enable us to pay them. Amen.