Today we'll visit Heather Broke, who is the daughter of Dustin and Angela Broke. She is currently an elder, with four living siblings and four children. One of her adult children lives with her, along with his wife and son, while her two younger children live with their father, who Heather recently broke up with. She works in the Athletic career, but had the day off this round. Her son Hobart has a non-traditional career; he writes restaurant guides. I occasionally allow sims to do this, when I don't feel the career they line up with fits them or when I'm just sick of a particular career (like Culinary or Athletic). In addition, Hobart had a group outing with some of his friends, a date with his wife (he has the 50 Dream Date LTW), and completed one guide. His wife Charlotte (who is the granddaughter of Priya Ramaswami Landchild) had a group outing as well and worked on her online class. Charlotte, despite wanting to be a doctor, had terrible grades in high and didn't end up graduating. Consequently, she needed to obtain her GED online and has since been working on her degree. She finished the equivalent of her junior year this round.* Hobart and Charlotte's son Warner is only a child, so he didn't have much going on apart from going to school and doing homework.
*Here's how online school works: sims write a novel for each level of schooling they need to complete (one for GED, one for freshman year, one for sophomore year, etc.) They must pay $2500 prior to starting each novel (the money they get from selling the novel is similar to the grant money students receive in Uni, so I allow it). Sims cannot take a job in their chosen field until they have completed the necessary level of education, with the exception of careers that require a masters degree. For those, I allow them to take the job as soon as they complete the regular degree and start working in their field while completing their masters. Online students must complete two novels for a masters degree as opposed to regular Uni students who only need to complete one novel to earn a masters.
Next up, Stephen Landgraab and Tess Grundstrom. This is one of my favorite families. Stephen is the son of Malcolm and Lucy (Burb) Landgraab. He has two sisters; one of them is a vampire like him. Tess is the daughter of Sullivan and Sadie Grundstrom (former Mr. Big and Diva) and she has two siblings. Stephen and Tess have been together for a LOOONNNG time, but have never technically been married. I like to think that Tess is opposed to marriage on the grounds that her parents' marriage was all about them and never about their children. The couple has 11 children altogether. Stephen has two adult children from his first marriage (Lisa and Eric) who came to live with them after their mother died (their mother was Summer Dreamer Landgraab, daughter of Dirk and Lilith Pleasant Dreamer) and nine children with Tess (Charles, Shane, twins Dawn and Ross, twins Ray and Violet, Wesley, and twins Kate and Peter). Lisa, Eric, and Charles are all out on their own now, Shane is in prison, Dawn and Ross are in college, and the remaining five still live at home. Ray and Violet are teens, Wesley is a child, and the youngest twins become toddlers this round. Tess also became an elder, which means it's only a matter of time before this couple becomes separated by death. This round Ray and Violet both rolled the want to go to private school, but financially it's out of the question with seven college funds to keep up with and only one income (Tess is a teacher), not to mention the full time maid and the nanny that has to be hired to care for the younger kids while Tess works and Stephen sleeps during the day. Violet's want rolled away in favor of getting a job, which she did (in the Athletic career), but Ray is stubbornly holding out. They were supposed to have a family outing since it was Saturday for them, but with everything going on, plus having to wait until dark, it just didn't work out.
Next we have Aiden Broke who is the son of Dustin and Angela. He has four siblings and five children (Joel, Jordan, Cara, Jay, and Caryl). Joel lives on his own, Jordan is at Uni, Cara recently finished boarding school and moved back home, and Jay and Caryl are still at boarding school. Aiden is a retired Journalist who hasn't had much luck in love. He had his first two sons with former maid Lucy Hanby, only to have the relationship not work out. She left and took the boys with her. After that he adopted three more kids and sent them all to boarding school. He dated a bit, but never found anyone he wanted to settle down with. Recently he reunited with Lucy (she didn't find anyone else either, lol), but I doubt they'll move back in together. Cara decided not to go to Uni and moved back home to help her dad out and start an Athletic career. This round she decided to throw a party and invited some of her friends from boarding school and work. She has three bolts for Ben Tellerman who she went to school with, so I think something might develop there. In other news, ghost dog Henry (Aiden's former pet) tried his best to take Cara out and we almost lost her once, but thankfully Aiden saved her. Maybe Henry's upset that Cara brought a cat home?
Next up is Aiden's ex (and current?) Lucy Hanby. Lucy is an elder with two sons, Joel and Jordan. She also recently became a vampire, which I'm not thrilled about because I don't care for elder vampires. In any event, since Lucy will never actually reach retirement age, I've decided to have her run out her vacation time and then retire, which will allow her to sleep during the day without fear. Until recently Lucy had been "renting out" the apartment on the third floor of her home (I think I did actually have the tenant paying her via just keeping track of their individual money and transferring the rent over each week), but the woman moved out a round or two ago to live with her boyfriend. I considered moving in another tenant, but with Lucy poised to live forever now, I think I'll keep the apartment vacant until I decide whether or not Jordan will want to move back in. If he does the apartment can become Lucy's. This round Lucy didn't have much going on. She did roll a want for a puppy and if she still has it when I come back to her I'll probably let her do it since her cat is quite elderly and won't be around much longer (even though Lucy will be, grrr).
Happy Simming!
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