My mom paid $200,000 to build an addition onto my home and moved in. It's paid off in unexpected ways. - Business Insider
"She will never go for that," I told my husband in 2023 when he suggested that my then-68-year-old mom sell the Hudson, New York, home she had lived in for 45 years and move an hour north to live with us.After my stepdad died in 2020, she seemed to have a new lease on life. After all, she had been his caretaker for 25 years.