Time sure does fly...

Isn't that the truth.
I never believed it until it happened to me.
But time really does just fly by!
Tuesday we signed Mady up for Pre-K.
My baby! Well, i guess she's not much of a baby anymore.
Now i know what some of you are thinking,
she's already 4, shouldn't she be going to Kindergarden next year.
But since her birthday is after the cutoff date here in PA, she won't make it for Kindergarden until 2014.
So Pre-K it is!
And she'll be going to our local catholic school too, so she'll be able to get some of the religious work that we both agree will be very good for her in the long run.
Registering her was really easy.
The application was straight forward, you know, all the basic information you would normally need.
But since she's going to a private school, it's going to cost money.
And not just SOME money, but a pretty penny, that's for sure.
So of course, we decided that we would apply for the scholarship program and see if we could get even just a little bit of help.
That's what any normal person would do, right?!
Well, we bring the application home.
It starts off really simple, with the parental information and such.
Then it gets into the money questions.
I was expecting the basics...how much did you make, attach a copy of your W2s, the simple stuff.
Nope!
It started asking me questions about different tax forms, how much we made on things i've never heard of before, if we have a profitable farm, what is the total if you subtract this line of your tax form from that line of your tax form, do you have a PA 40, blah blah blah.
I felt like i was reading Mandarin Chinese!
I don't know if it's because we have someone do our taxes for us, or just because we are dumb, but it was so hard to fill out that darn form!
We had to call the school to figure out what some of the things they were talking about were!
So i made sure to photocopy everything i filled out so that if there are any questions, i will have it in front of me to look at.
Holy moly, it made both our heads hurt!
It's no wonder some people just skip it and say "I'll pay it all out of pocket". Geesh!
But it's done now, and it's going in the mail in the morning (so i can look it over one last time to make sure it's right and i won't be getting it back to do over again).
Here's hoping we did it right...
And that, people, is why i will never home school my kids!! I can't even fill out the forms without help! HA!~