A few positives have happened, but I'm not counting them into the tax bill goal yet:

I ordered CC rewards from 3 cards, totaling about $120.

NT got reimbursed for a Prime membership with his work that I forgot we'd paid for: $99 in the bank from out of nowhere!

AS heard from an old co-worker of mine about a possible ongoing writing job. She'd have to sign up with a staffing agency his company uses, but if that works out, should be a good source of income!

We used a CC rewards Target gift card for groceries last week, so we were able to put AA's school lunch refill and a few other extras on it. So far we still have $20 left over from last week's grocery budget. This week we got more gift cards, so we're going to try and do as much of our grocery shopping as possible on Target cards.

The reason I haven't put any of this toward the tax bill is that NT has his passport application coming up this week, and AS and I are traveling with the kids to visit our parents in Va. I'm hoping we can also use Target cards there to buy some snacks and whatever else we need, and use whatever surplus we have from the above good money things to fund NT's passport and whatever incidental expenses AS and I can't either pay for with a gift card or use our own spending money.

I'd be really happy if we just broke even and didn't have to dip into the progress we've made on the tax bill so far!