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I'm babysitting/dog-sitting while Kim stomps around on the roof, pulling up old nails. We've been at this for just over a week. It seemed like it was going to be a pretty straightforward job. Pull up the old, worn shingles. Lay down the new ones. It isn't entirely shocking that we found another set underneath. The bigger surprise was the third layer made up of tar and gravel, poured over a layer of fiberglass. Of course, we didn't find those until we pulled up some rotted wood at the edge of the back of the house where the rain had been settling and soaking, bit-by-bit over the years. The complications slowed progress, and rain came earlier than forecast when we started the job. We did our best to cover the roof with tarps, but the rain was too strong, and leaked throughout the house (except, of course, the waterproof bathroom, where the ceiling already had missing tiles). Somehow we had enough buckets, totes, pans, towels, blankets, and laundry to catch and ab...

Happy Year of the Horse! What can be said about 2013 that you don't already know from a Facebook status update? In case you didn't stalk us carefully enough, here are some gems: From Kim:  Jacob's been asking to watch Doctor Who. I'll take it! • Ender* accepted an offer from Ball State for their Counseling Psychology PhD program. It's nice to finally know where we're going next. • I'm so happy we'll be in Mexico for one more mango season • Packing two years into two suitcases is not easy • If anyone in the SLC area isn't busy tomorrow we could use a bit of help moving. • Signed some papers for a house here in Muncie today. I guess we really do live here.  From Ender: Me: "Hey, I'm going to look up what the 9th anniversary is." Kim: "I'm pretty sure it's humus" • Graduation is tomorrow and I am speaking. • #babysfirstearthquake** • Less than 3 days left in Mexico and I finally memorized my phone n...

Last night something happened that has been troubling me since. I'm a little fuzzy on the details because I was half asleep, but at 4:30am Jacob woke up to a car in the parking lot below trying as it might to get unstuck from the snow. Jacob woke up Kim and by the time I woke up the whole family was in our bed listening to a struggling engine. From the bedroom window Kim could see that the car had become stuck blocking the passageway of our parking lot, and wondered if we could go down and help push. In my half-asleep state I thought she was just annoyed with being woken up, so I advised we turn up the fan and go back to bed, hoping they would soon stop, call a friend, or...I don't know. I just wanted to get back to sleep. I finally woke up when Kim said that the car was on fire. I leapt out of bed and called 911 like a superhero. Dispatch told me that someone had already called and thanked me for calling and I hung up. As a family we watched this poor persons car go up in ...