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First, we check on our goals so we don’t forget:

House 011 Building Goals:
2 Bedroom, 2 Bathroom home worth at least $50k Simoleons
*Include a designated party space
House 011 Generational Goals:
Complete the Master Mixologist Aspiration (3/4 done)
Achieve Level 10 of the Mixologist branch of the Culinary Career (lvl 9)
Craft Each one of the following potions:
Confident, Energized, Flirty, Focused, Happy, and Inspired
Raise the heir to Young Adult age and give them the Mean trait (child)

Feels like forever since I played this save – and when I load it up, I remember why – I have most of a week with three toddlers coming up. Yikes. And to make it worse, they’re uncontrollable. Thanks, Drifters.

Oh, and this post marks my first post of Simnano 2020 at the boolprop forums. I’m planning to post on alternating days with my Ramblers and my mermaid story, Tails of Sulani. The goal is to post once a day through the whole of July with a word total of at least 25,000 50,000 total. I got 31,000 words last year, so 25k should be a piece of cake, right – 50k will definitely be harder, but I have to start somewhere. I will also be posting some “bonus” chapters of my vampire story, Foreshadowed Sunset and starting a new challenge, that I will debut tomorrow.

Anyway, that’s enough stalling. Here goes nothing….

Not a stellar start, Ariana. Thank goodness this isn’t an ISBI.

I make sure our heir, Lyric, does her homework. (Spoiler: I don’t remember to do it every day this week… oops.)

Ariana makes it to the bed for a change.. and Blaze uses all the tricks he knows while cooking. The maid is not impressed.

… And that’s not the skill we need to max, dearie…. but thanks anyway?

That’s better. But before he gets much of anywhere on the skill, his daddy skills are needed again.

I just adore these kids. Lyla is so CUTE!

Blaze apparently really likes omelets. Good thing, too, because breakfast seems to be all he ever cooks.

Lyla.. you’re getting food everywhere. Thank goodness it doesn’t have to be wiped up.

Lyla is still working on her potty skill – but she’s only got that and imagination that aren’t at level 3 yet. So, we should get Happy Toddler with her.

It’s flower day, but we don’t really have time to celebrate. Poor Blaze is constantly running back and forth between the twin babies and Lyla.

However, whenever he’s off my control for a moment – this is where I always find him. They really love the stereo!

.. Yup. That vampire is still around. Seeing him there reminds me that I can now just say “no” to vampires. I disallow them. We’ll see it if works.

Fussy?!!  Ohh no.

Meet Derek, the eldest twin. And as it turns out, the only kid who got Ariana’s hair color.

Charmer. That’s much better.

And those sunglasses. I just can’t even. What a silly toddler she is.

I get the twins working on their potty skills. Blaze looks like he’s waving the white flag already. I can’t blame him. In reality, he’s complaining he can’t get out the door with both potties there. Which takes me a while to figure out. In a few shots, you’ll see that I move the potties and fix the issue.

Blaze has to take a few of these – luckily we have the points to spare. Because there’s simply no time to sleep with three toddlers and skills to be learned.

The madness that is three toddlers. Ariana is, at least, a good sport about it.

Lyla doesn’t make it all the way to bed. Poor tyke.

Blaze calls in to work on an invisible phone. No way am I leaving Ariana all alone with this mess. (Spoiler: I forget to call “off” the next day and Ariana gets left alone after all.)

Derek gets his first bath, which he desperately needed.

Blaze takes a moment to himself. He’s also the only one I ever see in the dining room.

I really appreciate Ariana helping out, though. She’s been a good mom.

I JUST missed getting a pic of the twins hugging, so you’ll have to take my word for it. It was really cute.

One of the few times this week that Blaze actually gets to lay down. Poor guy.

Ariana, on break with all the kids asleep, finds the computer again. She is the only one ever using the computer. At least for now, Lyric may use it when she’s a teen.

Ariana supervising the horde of toddlers eating clam chowder. That has to be such a mess to clean up after.

Nope – I was wrong. Blaze does actually get some sleep this week. For a little while, at least.

.. Until I make him put out the fire and use his new level 4 in handiness to upgrade it to make sure we’ll have no fires – at least not from the fireplace.

Happy birthday, Ariana!

For some reason I thought she was turning elder. Nope, just adult. Shows how much she’s been pregnant in this save!

I have learned to love this popcorn machine this week. Someone suggested toddlers would grab snacks from this to prevent social services from coming to get them – and they do. What a lifesaver.

Bathtime! Derek is always dirty, it seems.

He looks so much like his mama, though. So cute.

… Just.. please don’t wake your sisters!

Lyric decides it’s appropriate to watch the zombie movie on TV. Twice. In a row. With the proper horrified expressions both time. It totally cracked me up.

She then braves the dark outside to take out the trash. What a trooper.

Ariana decides to take the neglected garden in hand. (Which actually reminded me we HAD one. I had completely forgotten. Which means that I didn’t get any of the income from it, either. LOL. Oops.)

Lyla finally leaves toddlerhood behind.

With decent rolls, no less. Somehow, though, the twins needing food badly caused me to not get a picture of her all grown up. You’ll just have to wait for the next post to see her.

Popcorn saves the day again!

.. I love the little feet you can see on the couch under the mirror. Blaze needs to somehow get another half a skill point in Mixology and two whole points in Charisma (to level 8) to get his level 10 promotion. Hopefully we’ll have more time for skilling as the kids grow up… because as it is, it’s just not happening.

I breathe a huge sigh of relief as I save my Ramblers and move on to another save … that was so stressful! And I have two toddlers to come back to. Hopefully that’ll be easier than the three was!

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