Thursday, November 30, 2006

We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.”

by teresa

We recieved a catalog in the mail this week from the realtor that we dealt with renting our summer vacation home. It has pages and pages of incredible homes for availability this season. Ben has been mesmorized by this book and the page after page of extravagance. Fifteen bedroom mansions...indoor swimming pools...five car garages (which impressed him the most...the kid has a thing for automatic garage doors)...etc. He read off page after page to me(and boy did that get annoying....I just zoned him out after about 15 mintues of it). He would come to a page and read off the stats....bedrooms, bathrooms, bed size, kitchen features....then he would say...oh man....you need 12 jobs to get that one. Or oh man.....you gotta have 20 jobs for that one. I was puzzled by this and after the tenth time I was like....what are you talking about? 20 jobs? Then he showed me the page.....it read occupancy 20! He thought the word was occupation.

Then after looking at the prices of some of these for the week ($12,000)...I realized he was right!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Looks like (once again) Ben is wise beyond his years.

Anonymous said...

$12,000 is what some people in this country make in a year. Wow!

Glad you are enjoying your new dryer.

Blessings
Lisa

Anonymous said...

Teresa ... check your email.

Anonymous said...

It would definitely take more than one job at my salary to afford a place like that. I'm sure it is beautiful. The house we vacationed in last summer was really great, too.