My mom is nearing retirement age and the closer it gets the more she talks about moving in with us. We've joked around about it for years, like how I'll keep her in a high turrett where her grandchildren can throw food up to her through the window.
My mom claims she will be very cranky and a pain to live with because she will be old, tired, and in pain. She'll be angry that she can't do all the things she wants to do. In one way I can understand that but in another I keep telling her she's just going to have to accept it. It's a fact of life and I don't know why she has to make all of us miserable to boot.
While Dear Man likes my mom he wonders if he might lose his sanity living with someone who chooses to be a grump. He decided we would be a little house on wheels so when my mom is good we'll park her house next to ours and when she is being a pain we'll park her in the back forty.*
Actually my mom will need to have a house on the ground floor so a two or three story house with ground floor apartment would be best. We could also go with a house that has a ground floor mother-in-law house on the property. Either of these could be hard to find in our price range and in our neck of the woods.
So we've been looking to see what kind of houses are out there that we could add to our property. Here are some possibilites. Some are just fun, some are ugly, and some you just have to look at because its there.
Tumbleweed Houses - It's a house, it's on wheels, it's cute!
Eco-Pod House - For the bee in your family
Micro Compact Home - It's ugly and one might be called in to social services if you actually housed your mother in it.
Just a house pod - Might work if we lived in the arctic.
Shell house - Since my mother says she'll be a crab...
Simon's Eco-house - My mom would actually like this even though she doesn't have hairy feet.
ICOSA pods - You could always hope Han Solo might stop by.
A Yurt - You want a reindeer with that?
Loft Cubes - I'd be worried that an alien ship might mistake it for a spare part.**
Pumpkin House - To prevent it from decaying would you have to shellac it?
* I hope you know we are just kidding and that we would take good care of my mom. Maybe.
** I don't believe in aliens but that's what it makes me think of. |
Jul. 26, 2008
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that was fun
We're making plans to buy the house next door to us one day for that purpose... hopefully they'll take their time moving since we don't exactly have that kind of money hidden under our mattress, I mean in the pantry... yeah, pantry...