My mother is a stubborn woman insistent on living in her house if there is ANY way. Right now they're managing, like I said I'm about to drop a cheap stove in there to solve this problem. And as much as I bitch, my sister does care about mom and watches over her, helps her around the house, organizes all her medications, cleans the house, etc....
It's just anything involving money they're a negative impact player on.
There's a part of me that feels almost guilty because I have the money to make things easy on them, I make decent money and funding them doesn't honestly put a big financial strain or anything on me. And if it was just my sister I'd be doing it without thinking. But so long as she has a useless bump on a log of a husband I'm pissed that he hasn't managed to at least FEIGN at being a "man of the house".
Hell, as I said if my mom wasn't so stubborn she could be living with me and my wife right now.
At least my grandmother was smart (at the advice of my grandfather) and put the house in a trust with my mom, my uncle Danny (who is my one reasonably responsible uncle) and me listed as the beneficiaries as to protect it from bad financial decisions like "let's just take out mortgages on the family house!". My uncle Danny has already said he plans on just eventually signing over his part of it to me since I handle and take care of everything, and I'm my mom's legal P.O.A. so in theory I "control" the house at this point.
And the lump on a log a few days ago, when I was over there, and he and I were outside just openly said "Well, once your mom is gone, your sister and I are going to move back to Tennessee and buy land, build a house, and I'm going to start a business". I was torn between laughing at his thoughts that he'd be able to do any of that, and wanting to kick his ass over just openly planning on my mom's death.
Sorry for all the walls of text, it's been a long week and this is the place my brain decided to core dump.
Mur
I am not so sure you won't need it in 2 weeks. It was 103 this afternoon when we came back from dinner. I'm just 'over the hump' from you.