Gilbert's Economic Stimulus Package

Remember when you were in the hospital and some friendly staff member came by the room to start the process for your child's birth certificate and social security card. They give you the option of having the hopsital initiate the process or you can do it yourself.

After learning it takes 16 weeks if the hospital does it, but only 6 weeks if you go down to the Social Security office and do it yourself in our infinite wisdom, we opted to handle the paperwork ourselves.

Well, 16 weeks later his card arrived in the mail.

Gil is an official citizen now. But those lost ten weeks will haunt him for the rest of his life! Ten lost weeks where we could have established his 529. Ten lost weeks of no personal savings accounts for friends and family to send cold hard cash to. Ten lost weeks...He can't even sit up yet, and we've already failed as parents! Oh, what will we do. The horror! The tragedy!

But I have a solution. Call it our own economic stimulus plan. To make up the monsterous deficit facing Gilbert Nation, we've initiated the "Spare Change Plan". For every penny, nickel, dime, and quarter we find under the seat of the car, in between the sofa cushions (how does money get there anyway?), and all the loose change from cash transacations, we'll donate it to his piggy bank (piggy bank courtesy as a gift from the Hoffmann's. Thank you!).

With bipartisan support and participation, we are confident this stimulus package will plug the huge budget deficit of those lost ten weeks and provide Gilbert Nation the prosperous future he deserves!