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Welcome back. It feels like forever since I last played, and it’s only been four days. I had to go back and look at the last post to see where I was.

… Our goal list…

Set #1 - Author - Brayden
Get to Level 10 in the Writer career (Author) (level 8)
Master the Writing Skill
Complete the Bestselling Author Aspiration
Write at least 2 Excellent Books in Every Genre
Write 5 Books of Life and Bind Them to Sims (1 done)

Brayden’s Book Count:

All excellent (or better) books complete
1 Book of Life bound to sims: Heidi Ireland,

Set #19 - Art Critic - Heidi
Get to level 10 of the Critic career (Art Critic) (level 9)
Complete and Display the Snow Globes and City Posters Collections
Perform as a statue for at least two hours
Complete the City Native aspiration
Win a Karaoke Contest
Have level 10 Singing skill (level 6)
Travel to all festivals at least once

YIKES!!! I completely forgot about naming the kids A-Z… so Glenn gets a new name first thing. Sorry kiddo, but now you’re Aiden. I also fixed the featured image from the last post, I hadn’t meant for it to be the same as their first chapter… And another goal I’m giving myself.. I’m going to try to get both kids to all four aspirations for that kids goal. I’ve never done that before, and I might not get them there, but no harm in trying, right?

Aiden is just so darn cute.. and such a happy kid, it seems like. I mean, who doesn’t like pancakes, right?

I have him join the Scouts after school program. Since he’s going to be working on all four aspirations, he’ll probably get a good portion of the scouts “career” done, too.. Maybe we can even get it to max and get that goal done, too?

.. Wait a minute.. what are you doing? That’s not a very good boy!

Working on some inspired pictures for his first aspiration. I do a lot of aspiration switching for him, trying to get as far as I can before Ashlie ages up and things get really hectic.

It’s flea market day.. and on the off chance someone is selling snow globes, I send both Heidi and Aiden to the flea market. I figure I don’t want to lose any time on working on Aiden’s aspirations, so I switch to the social one, and get to work.

Socialization badge points galore! (While the woman at the next table practically breaks her arm putting her plate down and trying to watch Aiden..)

More food stall foods. I wasn’t sure whether I’d gotten curry or not, I hadn’t written it down.. so I went ahead and had her eat some. Spoiler: she’d already had it.

After work, I have Brayden join them, so Aiden can work on his BFF aspiration. Also, I’m keeping them there because there’s a Karaoke contest that night, and I figure we’ll give it a try with Heidi.

The paparazzi show up for Brayden.

.. And then the fans start passing out. LOL.

Trying the contest. Spoiler: she loses. BY THREE POINTS. GRrrr…

More fans on the floor. I find this interaction hilarious.

BFFs.. and more fans down. Haha.

Working on his first friend.

More food stall food…

Is it me.. or does that one just look gross??  Eww..

.. Getting close. (Even though this isn’t one of her goals.. lol)

Awww. They love each other so much, and despite me trying so hard for Aiden’s skills, I often find Ashlie following him around.

Badges and promotions! Aiden has been busy!

Skills for Ashlie. I doubt she’ll get top notch toddler, but I’ll still get her as far as I can.

Sparkly daddy…

.. Yup.. it’s Monday. Got a volcano to build. Dad helps out.

The excellent volcano.. and Ashlie being cute….

.. See??  Omg.. that face! Heidi and Brayden sure made cute kids.

Back to the creative aspiration. That’s a pretty cool car, there, Aiden.

Geekcon. I tried the video gaming .. but there was no way, because I haven’t worked on that skill. The hackathon, though…

.. Was a success.. so that’s one more goal we can cross off for Heidi’s aspiration.

Such a cute picture. Although Aiden’s face is hilarious. He just hit himself in the face with a Triceratops.

.. Working on the beginning of the Mental aspiration. Gotta spend time reading with the parents.

Heidi gets some painting time in before bed.

.. Then I decide that, instead of moving them to a better apartment for the 100k apartment goal.. I wonder if I can upgrade this one and get the goal done. (I’m loathe to leave the ready supply of Snow Globes outside because we STILL haven’t gotten that done. I’m missing two of them.) .. So.. upgrade spam…

I you look closely on this last photo, you can see Aiden working on his Mental skill in the background. 🙂

Aww.. so cute! Playtime by herself.

.. And then some Mom time.

… And THIS is why I keep one eye on the square below at all times. SNOWGLOBES!! I stop everything Heidi is doing and have her run down to buy them, hoping that the last two I’m missing are there.

Oh my gosh.. Finally. Right after I complain about the snowglobe issue, and upgrade the apartment.. they appear.

The full collection. I have a hard time deciding whether I like the Grim Reaper one or the Haunted Mansion with the lightning in it best.

Heidi practicing singing while Brayden writes. All that work with getting Top Notch Toddler nearly lost Brayden a fame star, and I don’t know whether I’ll be able to get him his fifth star.

Working on that Mental skill.

I catch Heidi playing with the lump of clay again. Sims really love that thing.

Creative skill. I told you I bounced between aspirations a lot!

Oh look what time it is!!  (What a face, Ashlie…. LOL)

I rolled random traits for Ashlie since she’s not the heir.

… She doesn’t look happy about being grown up. Hehe. She’s still adorable, though.

Aha.. she was mad about the dirty plates! .. And Aiden heads off to scouts as we finish this post. I got a lot done.. even if it doesn’t really feel like it. It’s just that I’m at the hard spot in the generation goals, so it takes longer to get them done. And taking care of the kids takes time.

Brayden’s Book Count:

5 Books of Life bound to sims: Heidi Ireland, Aiden Ireland, Clement Frost, Nancy Landgraab, Houda Mounib

At least I got this done, though! .. And.. I’ll see you in the next post!

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