BACC 4/10/21

 The Collins family (Lot #4) welcomed a baby girl on Monday, followed by a baby boy on Saturday.  The girl's name is Raven and she grew into a child by the end of the week.  Ethan is still a baby, but will grow up on Monday of next week.  I daresay Meadow will be wanting another right away.  They managed to build a room for the kids, but they'll need a second floor very soon if they continue to have children at this rate.  Financially, that's going to be tough.

Chase's business, Nani Ke Ola (Life is Beautiful) got off to a pretty good start, though he's yet to rank up.  He sold one or two paintings per day, making between $80 and $400 for them.  By the end of the week, he'd maxed creativity, so his paintings will be worth more now.  He stocked a few in inventory to get him going on Monday.  We did hit a snag when it came to Meadow's vacation pay.  I had her take the week off, so Chase could focus on his business.  However, when it came time for her vacation pay, she kept getting $0 instead of the $496 she should have got, so I had to familyfunds them the money.  It's only fair, paid vacation is paid vacation, whether it's a regular job or an employee job.

Apart from growing their business and their family, they had to contend with drama from Neil Cameron.  Apparently, being invited to Meadow's wedding did not clue him in to the fact that they were over.  When I was playing the Hastings family, Meadow and Chase were invited to a birthday party and when Neil walked by Meadow autonomously greeted him.  He then got jealous when he saw Meadow and Chase kissing and left in a huff.  This week he stole every newspaper that was delivered and kicked the trash over more times than I can count.  I didn't notice once and they had so many roaches it was ridiculous.  I hope he gets over it soon.

Taxes came to $1,552.00, bringing the total to $73,770.00.

Stats:

Playable sims: 25

SM: 3

Population: 75

Residential lots: 6

Owned Community lots: 6

Unowned Community lots: 1

CAS earned: 7* (3 added)

*Each community lot earns a CAS.  At the beginning of the challenge I decided to stagger the addition of CAS by grouping them into random family units.  I rolled a six-sided die several times, getting the numbers 3,4,1,6,2,2,6,5,2,4,1,5.  So the first family would have 3 sims (Albert Hastings and his 2 kids), the next would have 4, and so on.  So that means we'll be getting a family of four next round.  I will create one adult with random gender/genetics/personality/aspiration, then roll for the age of each additional family member.  Depending on what I get, I'll decide on the family relationships and then create the rest of the family.

No new career positions were opened up.

Up next are Brenna and Orlando.  Happy Simming!