MIL moving in...

Ok, MIL moving in w/us.  Apparently my brother and his wife aren't having children, and our closest cousin for the Little Miss is an hour away so we don't get together very often.  I DO NOT want a teeny tiny family and only seeing aunts, uncles, and cousins at holidays, i.e. 2 or 3x a year.  If we had cousins nearby I wouldn't even be questioning.

I have approached my husband about adopting a slightly older child through the foster system, but younger than the strong willed wonder.  For example, SWW is going to be 5 in April so I would be aiming for 3 or 4.  However, there are so many things that have to happen.  First I have to get my MRI which is scheduled for March, and see what the results are. In the drug trials and studies the new drug I'm on showed a 75% reduction in brain lesions.  If the MRI shows there has been a reduction then I can think about it.  If the meds are not making any difference than it's not a possibility which I don't even want to consider happening.

Assuming the drug is doing it's thing than we can think about a sibling.  However, my husband is very concerned about me taking on too much and has made the sibling condition that if can only happen if my MIL moves in w/us.  She's come to stay w/us while he has gone on business trips and our house is just too small.  As I mentioned she stays in the SWWs bed and the SWW sleeps with me.  However, right now we are transitioning her back into her own room.  Her mattress is currently on our floor, she has said that she will stay on our floor for 20 days, we made a calendar, she is crossing off the days, and she understands that after 20 days she is going back to her room.  So where will MIL sleep once the SWW is back in her room?

We decided to put a twin bed in my husbands "office", but that means we have to come up w/some where for the dog to sleep.  She is old, I think I'll buy her a new crate and have her sleep in the laundry room so she won't have to do stairs, but the laundry room isn't that big.  Spacious for a laundry room, but like the rest of our house a few feet too small.  So now I'm investigating beds w/storage & we have to buy a mattress that isn't crappy.  So no ik.ea or walm.art mattress since my 76 year old MIL be sleeping on it.

At this point we probably won't be thinking about seriously moving until we have a better idea about the future of the plant that my husband works at.  All we know right now is that the plant whose specialty is military helicopters only has 5 more years of government work lined up and as of right now they are not willing to do any commercial airplane work at that site since there are sites all over the U.S. and those sites don't have high cost union workers.  My husband is not in a union, only the mechanics who do the helicopters are, Husband is an engineer w/ a degree in airplanes.  He doesn't want to leave the company mostly because smaller company usually means smaller pay and benefits & he has a pension and that sort of thing. Not to mention we have kick a** health benefits that we pay a lot for, but I'm thankful for since I have a health condition.  So, long story short?  We're trying to make our too small house workable to have my MIL come and stay for long time periods.