The car is to be given to BIL. MIL and FIL will be going to Motor Vehicles to get ID cards in place of their Florida IDs - no licenses. Problem solved the best we can.
For myself, I think I have come up with a solution. But I’m kinda dreading it.
I’ve rented office space in Denver. I really can’t work out of my Moms house. It’s only a mile away from this office, and much cheaper than an apartment.
My Mom lives 100 miles away from my house, and needs help. COVID put an end to any assisted living place. Ain’t going to happen. I’d have to assert power of attorney and all of that to get her to go.
She wants to die at home. I understand.
I also need to be at my home in winter. I of course want to be with my Wife, but we also get a shit ton of snow. I plow it. We get 20-30 feet a year.
The good news is that my work is perfectly cool with this (finally). I can work anywhere in the world. COVID taught us that.
“What a strange, strange trip it’s been”
So very, very true.
I work for a firm that does a lot of government consulting. I’ve had some degree of WFH for the last 18 years or so. 2 years ago, when I was rolling off one project, I saw one that had several openings that were RIGHT up my alley. But they were in another time zone, and “No Telework Allowed”. Note that this was several months after COVID, and I suspect all the locals were teleworking anyway - but at least they could go in if they needed tech support.
A year later, my new project failed to win a recompete and I was looking again. I saw those job openings for that same project, but this time they said “Telework can be discussed”. So I put my name in, and interviewed, and asked “so let’s say COVID goes away, and everything reopens: where does that leave me?”. I was told “Weeeellllll, I have a team of 25, and only 9 desks assigned in the building, so I think we’ll continue to allow it”.
Later, the contract was formally modified to allow telework. The only issues have been if someone needs tech support, and/or initial computer setup which requires physically connecting to a government network - or getting one’s CAC card issued (being in the DC area, I have more choices than the folks “on site”).
Anyway: that’s rambling, but relevant to the thread because like you, I can combine working, with looking after the in-laws (or my special-needs daughter who lives 500 miles the other way). As long as I can get to the internet, I can be there, and pop out for an hour or two here or there as needed. I could, in theory, stay at the in-laws’ place and work there (and have done so, in the past) but it’s not as comfy (sofabed) and there’s no good working space there. The time I did it, I brought my lap desk and just sat on the couch. My husband, likewise, can work anywhere; he usually does not work the entire time we’re there but at least he can.
Do you actually stay the night at your mother’s place when you are working out of that office?
There are some that want to go into an office. I sort of understand that. I guess if you can’t set up a proper space for yourself at home. Or maybe can’t concentrate when at home.
I no longer have an office where I used to work. They redid, and consolidated. That kind of scared me at first (I had a great corner office, best one in the building)
That’s the plan. I carved out a space that I can leave a blow up bed permanently set up. I don’t move into the new office until November. Going to have to see how that works out. The office is open 24/7 to me though. And I see nothing in the lease about ‘taking a nap’ there.
What I have been doing is going to Denver weekends. 100 miles down, 100 miles back up. I don’t mind the drive, but I do mind the assholes on the road. Now I’ll go down mid-week. Less clueless ski/vacation traffic. More locals. Might be better in that regard. I donno.
I was going to set up office space in my mom’s house. Even bought and set up a computer that I could use there. My mom fought and fought about upgrading her internet, I could not do it with out her knowing (have to get someone to string fiber). At one point, she thought that going to fiber optic was a fire danger, she misunderstood something she read on the internet 
I came to realize that it would drive me crazy anyway. I know I need my own space.