What a difference 8 years makes!

So, for those of you who aren't aware of my current life situation, I am officially enrolled in courses as of this morning at UW-Madison.  Turns out that was the easy part.  The hard part is figuring out how to get all the paperwork that they need to them.

Was it like this 8 years ago when a "normal" person is entering college at age 18?  Did my parents have to do all of this? Surely, if they did, they didn't have a 4 and 3 year old to drag around from office to office compiling a to-do list that rivals War and Peace.

Normally, an 18 year old doesn't have to worry about where their kids will be while they are at school.  I'm in the process of finding a second daycare that can watch the boys in the afternoons 3 days a week.  The other two days they boys will have to be in full-time care but the school that Owyn is currently at is awesome and is able to fit them into a full-time class on Tuesdays and Thursdays.  Since Cayden hasn't been there, they need his immunization records as well as the specific date and time of every splinter or knee scrape he has ever had.  (That goes double for the new day-care which needs that information for both kids.)  Also, because we have (in my professional opinion) the most out-of-date, inefficient medical record systems on the planet. (Okay, I suppose places like Sub-Saharan Africa might be worse off, but only because they don't have access to the technology. I bet if they did, they could come up with a better system than we have.)  Anyway, because our system sucks, I have to call every clinic the boys have been to since we have been in Madison and see if they have forwarded information to the next, and so on, and so on.  So there goes my Tuesday. Not that I had anything better to do.

Also, every department in the whole university needs a copy of my 2008 taxes.  I went to our taxes folder, found 2008, and wouldn't you know, no tax return.  I have all of the W2's and 1099G's and KRS-One's (Hip-Hop joke for the un-informed, good stuff, check it out if you are into that kind of thing).  I think we had to give it to some bank, or credit union, or some other institution that charges you more money the less you have. We must have forgotten to get a copy and given them the original.  I got a hold of the IRS but apparently it takes 10-15 business days to find a file, print it, put it in an envelope, and send it off.  That said, I'll be calling our local IRS office to see if I can oversee the opening and printing process and pick it up in person.  I doubt that will help, I mean, they probably have 7 or 8 of them to do today, if it isn't some crazy government holiday.  So there goes my Wednesday. Again, not that I have better things to do.