Mintz Houses

Julia has filled me in a bit more on the Mintz's living conditions lately.

JULIA: Mom?  I always imagine that the Mintz's house was built in 1791, so, like, it has a PARLOR.  They don't really MAKE it a parlor, but it used to be a parlor, and one time, Jessica asked Jastina: "Where's Lilly?" and Jastina said "In the parlor," and Jessica said, "We have a parlor?!?"

So the Mintz must live in some sort of historic manor like this:

I guess if you've got as many kids as the Mintz do, you need a heck of a lot of space.

Meanwhile, I learned more about the homes of some of the Mintz's relatives today.


JULIA: Mom?  The Mintz's cousins, who live across the street? Their house was built in the 1300s!

And this brings us right back to yesterday's post about Madeleine's drawing of "an American."  Apparently the Mintz's cousins live in this kind of home:

I wonder if the Mintz kids, lounging in the spacious parlor of their luxurious colonial home, feel bad for their cousins all crammed into the wigwam across the street.