Re: the FAQ "I don't know how you go through tax season with two little children!"

I don't know either. Just walking out of study room at 0.30am to go take a shower (not to bother Von Zobel later) and to get back to tax returns - and realizing that you still have slow-cooked chicken in Insta-pot and a pot of boiled potatoes to be mashed - waiting for you on the kitchen counter top.
'Cause work needs to be done, but kiddos need lunch to be cooked and packed for next day too :)

*Work-life balance notes*

Kids are super exited to come with me to the office on Saturday. They pick and put on their best clothes. They dress up in 3 minutes. Arthur helps Adrian to dress. Adrian wears jeans (not some day-care-pants) and insists on a belt (!).
In his big boy voice Arthur asks for a snack:
- Can he take some goldfish with us? We'll get hungry while you are working.
-Sure, grab a handful for each of you, please.

Later in the office, I indeed find in their backpack 2 carefully closed containers with just a handful of goldfish crackers. Apart from the crackers, out of their back pack came: 2 whole apples, 2 whole pears, 2 bananas, 2 mandarins, 2 personally packed servings of humus, 2 sticks of mozzarella string cheese, 2 small... cheese pancakes (syrniki) and a handful of dried mango.

I honestly expected to finally roll out a cooler with beverages out of the backpack. But no, there were some paper towels packed at the bottom.

- That's our picknick! - smiled Arthur.

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I remember thinking a year ago that I came to 30 years with almost as much as most people achieve in their entire lifetime, and if I die right now - oh, well - it was a good life overall, and I wouldn't feel too bad.

Fast-forward a year to today... There's no way my life can stop right now :) I have new goals, new values, new circumstances, new knowledge about people around that I can't ignore anymore, new horizons to get to... And I back to the battle-mood of striving to get there before I run out of time...

What do accountants do for their pre-tax season party?

They go shoot each other as teams in Dart Warz. :) A few takeaways from tonight:

1. It's always the quiet ones.
2. An average CPA can probably be an aggressive hitman.
3. Never wear a sweater to a dart shooting again.
4. Regular workouts help.
5. But I think shooting practice was on my RealPlans list for this year, so I should get to it.
6. Check the emergency kits in both cars to make sure they are stocked up with enough allergy relief remedy for any impromptu beer after-party at a house with cats.