Family

I am doing this whole thing of meditating on stories in the Bible - working through Mark's gospel and just becoming one with the stories, as best one can.
I have got stuck in Mark chapter one! It is that whole thing of Jesus calling Simon and Andrew and then He goes to their house after preaching in the synagogue.
Now this is what my translation says that He goes to the house of Simon and Andrew and heals Simon's mother-in-law. Ok great story.
Well these are the thoughts that I have had - if Simon was married why was Andrew living with him? They wouldn't have done the flat sharing that goes on nowadays with brothers but would stay at home until they married, and then often an extra room was built on the house for the married couple of live in, but that would be of the father of the groom's house. So does this mean that Simon and Andrew's parents were dead? That Simon was the older brother supporting his much younger brother? And why was his mother-in-law living there? Did it mean his wife's father was dead and that there was no other family to look after her? and once Jesus heals her it is the mother-in-law who gets on and sorts out a meal. Why hadn't Simon's wife been doing this already? also the mother-in-law must've been really sick because she didn't make it to the synagogue. Was Simon's wife heavily pregnant which is why her mother is taking charge of preparing food? Had Simon's wife died after he had taken in his mother-in-law to look after? And if he was a responsible man who looks after his younger brother and mother-in-law and a probably wife with maybe children, wasn't this then just totally amazing that he left all that to follow Jesus? In fact there must've been so much trust there in the fact that Jesus had called him, someone who was not academic enough to stay on in education and was learning a trade, but who Jesus could see so much in.
We too need to know that Jesus can see in our hearts and that it is Him who calls us. There was nothing these guys did to follow Jesus apart from obey Him when He said come.
Jesus says Come, am I willing to give up everything?

Oh and also I want to explore some more about how we don't fully understand what Paul means by family because we didn't live family lives like this - wait for part 2