Maderville

Tax Day

Landry is now an official tax deduction for the Mader household! YEAHH! We need all the help we can get these days. Especially since the cost of gas is making everything go UP. By the way, Landry, it is $3.35/gallon. There is no telling what it will be when you are driving...hopefully that guy that invented a car that runs on water will finally invent it for the masses by the time your old enough to drive.

Tax day always makes me think about Sophie because since she was stillborn, we were not able to count her on our taxes because they don't even give you a birth certificate for a stillborn child. That was a very sore subject for me(and still is). She lived inside me for 36 weeks but because she did not draw air into her lungs, she basically never existed. There are no legal papers to say that she existed and that really hurts a grieving parent. It's like saying that she didn't count. In some states, they have a certificate of Stillbirth they issue instead of a birth certificate....at least it's something even if it doesn't matter to anyone but a sad mommy and daddy.

Anyway, something to think about if you ever know of someone who suffers such a tragedy. There are more things that go on beside just losing your child. It's dealing with that kind of stuff that hurts you more later on when you are just trying to cling on to anything you can. Now, don't get me wrong. I could care less about the actual deduction. I would have given up a lifetime of deductions just to have a piece of paper that said she was real and that she existed. I know it doesn't seem like much but it is to me. On a happy note...isn't Landry the best deduction you've ever seen?! Oh, and what's up with the Alfalfa do?