Or get a really big dog. Or something.

Around 1:30 this morning Jason dragged me off our bed into the hallway and told me to get down. Not the best way to wake up. He had just gone to bed, heard a bunch of sirens and glanced out the window to see a cop car drive up onto our front yard and come straight for our bedroom. It stopped maybe 4 feet from our wall. We are still not certain what happened, but whoever they were pursuing abandoned thier car in front of our house and then took off into our backyard. I still don’t know if they caught them. They had a CSI team here for a few hours once all the other cops took off. And the car parked in our lawn had a flat and had to be fixed before they left.

It was a while before I could get back to sleep after that. I tossed and turned all night. It was pretty terrifying, knowing you are surrounded by a bunch of humans with guns (cops or not) and not being able to do a damn thing about it.