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Things are not always Shiny and Chrome.

Sunday night Julian called and said his check engine light was on.

Yesterday, we got a letter from the IRS saying we owed them a couple of thousand dollars from 2014. 

This morning the water heater died.

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We have an extra vehicle, Julian came home yesterday, dropped his car at the shop and took our truck back to Bloomington.

We talked to our accountant and are most of the way to resolving the issue with the IRS (apparently we had an extra W2 we knew nothing about, an amended tax return and maybe a couple of hundred dollars should take care of it).

I was able to work from home today, find a plumber and we should have hot water within the hour.

Today's photo is of my dear husband shoveling the neighbor's sidewalk last week.  He does this pretty much every time it snows.  He always shovels our block.  You see, our corner is a school cross walk, he wants to make sure the kids can safely get through. If he has time, he will often shovel the other side of the street too.  Sometimes, he uses a snowblower, mostly, he uses a shovel.

What does that have to do with the series of unfortunate events I listed above? I believe that if you take care of others, others will take care of you. Yes, all of the things that have happened over the last few days suck, but they all could have sucked a lot more! We have the resources and tools we need to deal with them all.  We are very fortunate. We are blessed.  

I can't help but think that what you put out into the world comes back to you.  Bad situations are made better, good situations are amplified and sometimes humbled.  Attitude is everything!

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