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Generation One: Black Appearance: Black hair, siren-like clothing style Traits: Evil, Non Committal, Kleptomaniac Aspiration: Renaissance Sim Occupation: Collector/Random careers of choice House Goal: 10,000 worth
I took a little time for myself this morning, and had a leisurely swim in the ocean first thing in the morning. In my head, however, I wondered how to get my mother to calm down about the volcano. I understood her panic, but I was sure things would be okay in the long run. I just had to convince her.
Those concerns left my head, however, when I got home to Kimber making a disaster. I thought to scold her, but stopped because it was helping her imagination skill. I could always clean up later. Meantime, however, I had to get to work, and since Rangi was back to work today, too, I had to call in a nanny to watch the kids.
Austen played some chess with her, getting some work done on his aspiration – and saving us from having to spend the time in front of a chess set. There were other things to do. Then again, aren’t there ALWAYS other things to do?
When I got home, I was exhausted. Rangi shuffled me off to bed and promised to watch the kids. Luckily, there were plenty of leftovers in the fridge, so dinner wasn’t an issue. He and Austen chatted about school and chess.. and science. Austen was really interested in it after getting that new science set for winterfest – and couldn’t stop talking about it.
Every chance he got, he was working on his Mental skill, whether it was on his science set, or the chess set, or just reading a book with Rangi or I. I suspected he would be a scientist later in life – or at least, do something to do with science.
Kimber, however, was in a big hurry to grow up. She wanted to be just like her older brother, and things weren’t happening fast enough for her. She was constantly asking questions and following us around curiously, watching everything. Which meant she was underfoot all the time.
Rangi helped Austen work on his aspiration by reading to him while I worked in the evening again. I was really getting tired of missing out on evenings with my kids, however. So I decided something had to be done.
When I got home, I made some calls and found an opportunity in the gardening career, where I could work from home most of the time. This would be the perfect job, and I jumped at it.
While I was on the phone, however, Kimber was busy interrupting an important chess game. Rangi struggled to follow both conversations, but finally gave up and sent Kimber off to her room to play on her own while I made dinner.
… Then the sky fell again. This was becoming a daily thing, and the rumbles from the volcano surely could be felt across the island. It definitely wouldn’t help my case with my mother.
This time, the rocks fell practically at my front door. I cautioned the curious kids to leave them alone, and made sure to find things to occupy them indoors for the rest of the evening.
Between my paychecks and Rangi’s, we were able to afford some new things. Namely, another expansion of the living room to allow room for a desk and computer, and a nice stereo system I had found when I was working in the Entertainment career. Rangi quickly took advantage of the computer, and it was hard to get him off of it.
Gardening was proving to be the perfect career. I loved being able to work from home so I could see more of my kids.
It even allowed me to take some time to let them go down the hill and play in the ocean. Austen paddled around, working on his motor skill, and Kimber played in the shallows – again complaining because she wasn’t big enough to follow him into the ocean.
I wasn’t shirking on my skills, either. I managed to master cooking today, and celebrated with some fluffy, delicious pancakes.
Then, I determined I needed to work more on my handiness skill. My skills, after all, were the the last thing I needed to finish to complete my Renaissance Sim aspiration. I had half of them to the level 8 required, but the others were still hanging out at level 7. I had work to do. Yet another reason working from home now was a really good idea.
Kimber cornered me again later, though. While Rangi was on the computer yet again and Austen on the chess set, she decided I was the person to bother.
“Why, Mama?” she complained. “Why can’t I be big like Austen??”
“Because you need time to grow, little one.” I replied.
“But why?? I wanna be big NOW!”
“That’s not how things work, Kimber, honey. Things that are little need time to grow up. Remember the plants in mommy’s garden? They start out little, too. But they grow up to be big and do great things, like giving us vegetables. You will, too. Just give it some more time.”
“How much time?” she whined.
“Don’t worry, sweetie, you’ll be big before you know it.” I assured her, and took her off to bed. Some things were awfully hard to explain.
I pondered her questions in my head.. and also how to get Mom to understand that I wasn’t being a bad parent by raising my kids here. This was the perfect place to inspire young scientists, after all. Maybe that was the way I could reassure her. But then, science was never her thing. I went round and round in my head.. absent-mindedly playing with the lump of clay from the shelf in Kimber’s room. Ultimately, I never came to a conclusion, though.. and I put the clay down dejectedly and went to tuck Austen in before turning in myself.
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Awww, poor Corina having to deal with questions from her mother and her daughter. 🙂 I’m sure she will find the right words, and Kimber will be growing up soon I bet. 🙂