We have three generations under one roof. When we bring Grandpa over from the home to visit, there’s four of us!
I keep thinking that this is pretty amazing. In a world where people scatter to the four corners, and we most definately have been scattered ourselves, I think it is great when families come together.
Of course some could argue this is a little TOO much togetherness. Sometimes it feels like it, sometimes it is great. Of course, that’s life anyway.
But looking at these three generations, it can be quite amusing. For example, my mum loves to sew. I love to design. Growing up this worked well and we teamed up to make costumes. I achieved the rank with her of journeyman. Well, I still love costuming and designing clothes, and she still loves sewing. Well along comes generation 3 and they adore dressing up. Talk about working great in with that! This morning two little boys were bounding up and down the hallway asking about the status of their costumes!! I think they want to wear them today!
Of course we all know that Lady Ozma is fairly computery and gamey. Well we have my father who’s always reading tech books and mags, fiddling with the inner workings of some machine or another, and otherwise being computery. My mum loves to game. She’s got a stack over by her computer. Laura Croft, Diablo, Warcraft, EQ and the 1000 expansions, etc etc.
Trickle down to Generation Two. Xbox and Playstation and The Sims and ORB and Civilization, and EQ, and so on and so forth. Sir Megabyte likes to read about specs and muck around with inner workings of a system. I love to muck around innerworkings, watch TechTV, and design websites.
Gen 3 comes up and they each have Gameboys with a dozen games, the gamecube, and they even carry it over in their creative play. “Joram I’m Megaman!!” “Caramon I’m Spiderman!” Caramon “Meet Luigi, the sock Puppet I made!” ROFL. Joram’s favourite app on the computer is Paint. When he was 3.5 we discovered this was a great way to keep him busy if we ever needed to accomplish anything!! Worked well while Caramon was ill!
Isn’t it interesting how families mesh? Really makes you think about nurture… LOL Have my parents and Sir Megabyte and I doomed another generation into gaming and computer geekdom? In a geekdom that is growing by the nanosecond, I bet the kids will be welcomed with open arms!
I was just thinking about this though because of yesterday. The kids cleaned their room and had played outside ofr a bit and so I let them play the gamecube. They had a total blast. Meanwhile I played a little SIMS and CoH. I got frustrated with Heroes though because for some reason I kept losing my connection. Saturday night I played for two hours just dandy, so we aren’t sure what the issue was yesterday. I’m going to get up and try it here in a few minutes I think to see how it is doing today.
Well also yesterday I found mum’s gameboy. Yes, my mum’s. She has a gameboy! I cleaned it up and I put it in this nice travel case I found for her on sale. She’s got the set up now! Well she was busy playing Diablo on a sewing break. Meanwhile Sir Megabyte was playing his new Horizons game and having a blast with his Satyr. Well we had joked about mum and this game the day before. How long it would take her to decide to get it. (Hey you can play a dragon and hello… I got my love of dragons honestly from my mother. ROFL) Sure enough Sir Megabyte comes in last night while I was cleaning up our bedroom from the weekend insanity. He says, “Your mum is on my computer. She’s making a Dryad. She’s a goner!!” We laughed. We knew it was only a matter of time before a fantasy game came into this house and she raced out excitedly to buy it!
At least she’s trying this one first! *GRINS* She says she likes it too. That’s great!! I may have to get on hubster’s account during the day in a few weeks and try it out! THere are some things I really like from what he’s said.
My dad is about to go on night shift so if he does I forsee mum and I gaming to be quiet… ROFL. Otherwise leaving the house. We’re going to work on clean sweeping some as well, but we will probably do a bulk of work in the evening after people have gone to bed/work. Maybe some sorting during the day in the family room, but putting away and hauling out and everything else will only be able to be done at night.
So I went to bed last night thinking about mum, Sir Megabyte, me, and the kids all gaming yesterday and how funny it was. Birds of a feather!!
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loadhan said:
Heh, for most of my young life there was four generations in my house.
When Mom got pregnant, she moved back in with her parents. Shortly before that, her mom invited her mother to come live in the basement apartment. So we had Great Gram, Gramma, Grampa, Mom, and myself. Great Gram got two great great grandchildren before she passed away but they didn’t live at the house then – however they (and their mother) have sorta moved into where Great Gram used to live.
And no, we didn’t just stick her in the basement, heh. The basement is a fully functional house to its own. My grandparents built the house but could only afford to build part of it at the time. So they built the basement fully liveable – insulated walls, kitchen, bathroom, living room, bedrooms, etc. Later they built the upstairs with all the same but kept the basement functioning. Mom and I lived down there for years too. Mom remembers playing on the “roof” of the basement before the upstairs was built. 🙂
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Lady Ozma said:
That’s cool…
My grandfather was living here before us. But he needs too much care so my parents put him in an assisted living facility less than five miles away and we visit him several times a week. Generally about 5 times a week. So that’s nice. He’s close, but not here so he can get the proper care.
I wish we had a fully functional basement, would make it easier 😉 Oh well. that’s cool that your family made the basement like that. I have several friends here who’s parents have basements like that. It’s a good plan instead of just having a big basement with cinderblock walls and stuff. Of course it is very expensive too. But the benefit is if there is no family in it you could rent it out! 🙂
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