More Water Heater Drama

Want to hear something funny? My brother, Jay, who is a contractor, highly recommended the tankless water heater to us from the very beginning. Well, when I talked to him a little more this past week, he said that when he talked to a bunch of his buddies he had changed his mind. He suggested that we try to find an ultra efficient traditional tank model instead. I just had to shake my head in disbelief. But, all of his points made sense and we are going to take his advice(AGAIN) and look at a tank version. Hopefully we can find one this week so that Dad and Jay can get it installed this weekend. The good news is that we are going to be saving a ton of money and I have family who knows how to do the installation for free. There are perks in the end, but I found myself defending the decision to go tankless to a bunch of people and now we are going completely the other way. Oh well...that's life I guess. In the end, at least we will finally have reliable hot water from a water heater that doesn't sound like the house is going to take off.

We had a very nice dinner last night with some friends who we really should have over more often. Eryn went to Tech with Scott and I, even though we didn't know her at the time. Turns out we know a lot of the same people though, which is pretty cool. They just had a baby boy who is about to turn 3 months this week. We are going to be able to share a lot of baby stuff with them which should help lessen the piles of stuff that we have building up in the basement.

Cadbury Carmel Eggs are a tool of the devil. They are so freaking good that there is no way that I could resist them. I did pretty well this year though, considering that I just bough my first one this weekend. I know, I know....bad for me, waste of money, you are on a budget now....believe me you are telling me anything I haven't already told myself. But did I mention the are really really good?

Caleb is back sliding with the potty training and the bad news is that we are letting him. We didn't get him to go potty all weekend and then today at daycare he had an accident and then ASKED to be put back into a diaper. Poor little guy. I can imagine how stressful and tough learning something so completely new must be. Granted he is only 2.5 and is doing great for a little boy, but apparently he just needed a little break.

What do we do with an old computer? It would be a great computer for a kid in HS or MS, but I don't think we are going to get anyone to buy it. Then what? I don't know if we are going to get much of anything from it if we donate it, but I guess any little bit that we can get back on our taxes is going to help.

Speaking of taxes, did I mention that we have to pay in this year? Yeah, that pretty much sucks. Granted, after you figure in what we are getting back from the state we are going to owe $350 to the feds, but that still hit us below the belt. Hopefully, if the same thing happens again next year we will be in a better financial position to handle it. Thank goodness we are going to be getting a big flex spending reimbursement this month, because Scott's increased withholding from his check is hitting us a little hard at the same time. I just have to get everything figured out in YNAB and we will be fine, but things are still going to hurt a little.

Well, I guess that is enough for the moment:). I am going to finish watching TV and then go wake up my DH so we can go to bed. He is currently sleeping upstairs with Caleb, just like I did last night. At least this way one of us gets caught up on our sleep while the other one gets some alone time.