God is Good!

God is good!
Thats all I can! My heart feels overwhelmed with how blessed we are! Most of you know that Andy is going to school right now which means that both of us are on EI. If anyone if you have been on EI before you know that you only get a portion of what you were making previously. We've been stressed about money (what else is new, right?) and we had been saving up so we'd have enough money to pay our mortgage. Here's a bit of a story for you. Last year this time was pretty stressfull. We had just bought a home, expecting a baby, and taxes! We did our taxes through H&R block and hated every moment of it. We felt ripped off walking out paying $180 for both of our simple little taxes, and finding out that we owed $700.00 because Andy's company didn't tax him enough throughout the previous year. Well we got through it, paid it off and were done with that. Tax season rolled around this year and we didn't know who to go to as we had no intentions of going back to H&R block, worst experience ever! My best friends sister offered to do them as she is an accountant and gave us a great deal! So she did them for us, is was easy and simple! It felt so good, and this year instead of owing money we were getting close to $500 back! Yes! Well thats when our notice of assesment came in the mail from the previous year and we owed another $300! WHAT!? Well get this, the lady at H&R block had missed one of the T4's and we now owed more money. We called and told her, and were refunded our $90 as well as the interested that had added up throughout last year. Yes we were frustrated that we still owe $300 but we got over $100 back! Interesting!

SO taxes this year. We found out we were getting $500 back, but then yesterday I saw the add about the first time home buyers grant, I e-mailed Tiez right away and she got back to me saying that yes we do qualify and our new amount we get back is over $1000!! What a blessing! How cool is that, right? I cant believe it!

In these stressfull times of not knowing if we're going to have enough money (meanwhile Andy's EI still hasn't come through yet!!) we have money coming from places that we never expected, and really it shouldn't have worked out so well! God is good! I'm so overwhelmed with how blessed we truly are!

God has been so faithful throughout the year, and in times where we didnt know where we're going to get our next paycheck from the money has showed up! Awesome!