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House 001 Building Goal: 30,000 value home
House 001 Generational Goal: YA aged heir (currently toddler)

Fair warning: I had two options for this chapter. Split it or have one really long chapter. Since I was already done with the play time, and just wanted to move on to house two, I went ahead and made it a longer post. So here we go. We start from a picture of what I spent a lot of time looking at this challenge… Brianna gardening.

Toddler skilling. I have yet to figure out how to max a toddler on skills without a whole lot of pissing off the toddler, so I don’t typically bother trying anymore. I just spend some time when I have it on teaching Carlie, and leave it at that. Oh.. the other reason for this picture.. Brianna is expecting again. (if you look closely, there’s definitely a baby bump showing)

Unfortunately, burning the candle at both ends leaves poor Brianna on the floor.. again.

And the finished outside look of the house.

I think it looks pretty good. Took the floor plan from a house I found online, and was able to replicate it pretty closely.

Here’s the upstairs starting to get some color and furniture:

And the same for the downstairs:

Carlie grew up without anymore face to floor experiences for poor Brianna. She’s stinky in this picture, but it’s her choice at this age. LOL.

The new pack got me all excited to take pictures of the hamster.. SO CUTE!! Best ten bucks I’ve spent in quite a while.

Say hello to little Macy, Carlie’s sister. How she got the blonde I’ll never know.. but at least I tried, right? Getting blondes in sims is so hard to do in my opinion. Also, don’t know how I managed to miss getting a baby pic of Macy, but that’s ok. All babies in sims 4 look pretty much the same, anyway.

Shaurya is now elder.. and he really loves spending time with his girls. It was about this point that I decided two kids was enough, even though Brianna’s want is to have more.

The other new pack. They have an upstairs utility/laundry room. With the fact that I’ve had bad luck with sims 4 dryers, I stuck in a clothesline instead. I also found a place for the much-abused dollhouse. I can’t tell you how many times I repaired the thing.

Getting Carlie some skills for school. Who knows what little Macy is doing in the corner of the couch there.

There’s so much going on in this picture, I don’t even know where to start. Macy is escaping up the stairs even though her dinner is on her high chair… Carlie is playing peekaboo with daddy in the closet.. and off frame Brianna is cooking dinner for everyone other than Macy.

The above-mentioned clothes line. Turns out sims will autonomously use it, too. Which is awesome.

Brianna’s lonely birthday. I’ve made a little pact to myself to try to avoid tubby sims this game, and dutifully destroy all cakes before they get eaten. This one included.

Macy and daddy. At least she actually ate dinner this time.

… While Brianna is still hard at work outside. Gardens are so much work!

And this picture is just to prove to myself that Carlie got an A in grade school. (Spoiler, she gets an A in high school too but I forget to take a picture. Macy does too, but without me trying. Go figure.)

And this is a first… never had a Drifter abducted this early in the challenge. Poor Brianna. My son was laughing at me for this for quite a while.

Proof that sims autonomously take care of laundry:

AND they take care of the little pets too!  <3

Helping Carlie with homework. If I influence a kid to do their homework, the least I can do is help them finish it. If I don’t, sometimes it just doesn’t get done, negating the whole point of influencing them to do homework in the first place.

Cuddle time!

The family watching the kids network (why oh why!? I’m so tired of that tune!) on their bigger TV.

Coincidentally, it turned out to be the last time they were all together. Grim shows up whether I was ready or not.

And, just because I can, I pled for him. Didn’t work. But I did try!

Grim apparently likes watching the news….?

Turns out even kids will autonomously take care of their pets. Sweet.

Time to grow up!

… Not too bad. She’ll be run through create a sim before she takes over as heir in House 002, so it’s nice to know she’ll look so much better. I don’t change looks other than hairstyle and the clothes.

Getting the skills for Carlie’s school grades. Macy is cheering them on, too.

With both kids at school and nothing but the garden to work on, Brianna makes some friends. This guy is apparently a mail carrier, but he worked for what I needed.. which was socializing.

Awww.. darn I wish Macy was the heir.. she’s adorable!

And apparently I didn’t see any other noteworthy pictures until the very end.. so here’s Carlie’s birthday.

Proof of the house value:

And finished house shots:

Brianna’s ending stats:

And now on to the next house…. yay! I’m going to try something a little bit differently, I think.. and try to make my money by archaeology. Definitely going to save before attempting it, but it should be fun.

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