Life continues to be rich and full in the Miser Family.
This was one of those weeks when my constant, repeated efforts teaching my kids how to fill out forms bore long-awaited fruit. By this I mean that, for the very first time, N-son did his taxes! He sat down at TurboTax with me by his side, and he entered all the information from his various 1099's (SSA and DIV, in case you're wondering) himself. I helped him remember his social security number and his bank's routing number . . . but he handled all the numbers and boxes and such with the confidence of a young man who has been filling out complicated forms ever since he'd learned to write. Which, in fact, he has. And he even chose complicated passwords and non-obvious PINs when requests for those arose. I'm just a little proud. (He ended up owing nothing for federal taxes and $27 in state taxes.)
As for me, the big event this week was bringing a mathematician to campus who gave a bunch of awesome talks about the mathematics of origami. He joined my family and some of my students for a rollicking Valentine's dinner, where he turned one of my dollar bills into a dynamic heart that "broke" and then came back together. So cool.
One of the talks that our guest speaker gave was called . . . well, when I read it quickly I thought it was called "Self-Folding and Rigid Organisms", . . . but it wasn't really about my husband doing yoga. (Origami, not organisms. yeah). But my guy really is continuing to self-fold at yoga, in spite of being a little bit rigid. He's also continuing to enjoy the classes he's auditing, and synagogue, and a bunch of protests that he attends.
And that's the news from our family, which continues to be prosperous in our adventures. May you and yours be similarly wealthy.
This was one of those weeks when my constant, repeated efforts teaching my kids how to fill out forms bore long-awaited fruit. By this I mean that, for the very first time, N-son did his taxes! He sat down at TurboTax with me by his side, and he entered all the information from his various 1099's (SSA and DIV, in case you're wondering) himself. I helped him remember his social security number and his bank's routing number . . . but he handled all the numbers and boxes and such with the confidence of a young man who has been filling out complicated forms ever since he'd learned to write. Which, in fact, he has. And he even chose complicated passwords and non-obvious PINs when requests for those arose. I'm just a little proud. (He ended up owing nothing for federal taxes and $27 in state taxes.)
As for me, the big event this week was bringing a mathematician to campus who gave a bunch of awesome talks about the mathematics of origami. He joined my family and some of my students for a rollicking Valentine's dinner, where he turned one of my dollar bills into a dynamic heart that "broke" and then came back together. So cool.
One of the talks that our guest speaker gave was called . . . well, when I read it quickly I thought it was called "Self-Folding and Rigid Organisms", . . . but it wasn't really about my husband doing yoga. (Origami, not organisms. yeah). But my guy really is continuing to self-fold at yoga, in spite of being a little bit rigid. He's also continuing to enjoy the classes he's auditing, and synagogue, and a bunch of protests that he attends.
And that's the news from our family, which continues to be prosperous in our adventures. May you and yours be similarly wealthy.
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