Before I start posting about current events in my game, I'll give a little background and a few pictures.
My sim, Danielle, worked in the sports career, and made it to sports legend shortly before she aged up to adult. Soon after, she married a man I placed in the game specifically for that purpose, as none of the pre-made single guys that hit on her seemed very interested in actually being romantic with her, except Leighton Sekemoto, who I did NOT want her to marry, as I didn't want to raise 5 children for him, plus Sam. I chose Nathan straight from the bin, and changed only a few of his wardrobe items, and I think one of his traits, placed him in the game, and made sure he and Danielle met soon after. They did hit it off, and unlike the other guys in town, he returned romantic interactions for every one she directed at him. Only a couple days later, the "ask to move in" option came up, which just doesn't seem to happen in my games, at least not ever when I want it to. Since I wanted him to propose, I jumped at the chance, and a few days later, they were married.
Being a family-oriented guy, Nathan woke up wishing to have a child on his first day to return to work after their honeymoon leave. I had planned on moving Danielle into the Americana house when she had enough money, but there isn't much room in that house for a lot of extra things, like the pool table they got as a wedding gift, so I decided on the Condor Lofts Museum house instead, and bought an inheritance so they could move right away.
It wasn't long before their first child was on the way, and once that first daughter was born, even Danielle was wishing for more. Although I prefer small families, it seemed a shame to only use two of the 4 bedrooms in that house, so I decided to let them have more children. And, even though I had decided in the past, after finally achieving the surrounded by family wish, that I was never going to have a family with that many children again, guess what - they now have 5 children, 3 daughters, and 2 adopted sons. (Kind of ironic, isn't it, since I rejected Leighton because I didn't want a large family?)
Danielle wished to quit her job after the third daughter was born, so I let her. But that youngest daughter, Daisy, is in school now, and the boys were adopted at the child stage, so I plan on having her rejoin the sports career for a short time. But she is less than 2 sim weeks from aging up to elder, and I will have her retire at that time.
Nathan has less than a week to aging up to elder, and I look forward to him being able to retire from the business career. I've had him for a much shorter time than Danielle, and want him to have time to master his favorite skills. He loves the outdoors, and he's mastered gardening, but not the skill challenges, and he still has quite a ways to go to master fishing. He has never sold any of his produce. It's all gone into the refrigerator, but with a family of seven, Danielle is going to have to cook every meal, and with Nathan also using the produce as fish bait, I have a feeling they're going to be using it up a lot faster now.
Their oldest daughter, Rose, also loves the outdoors, and made a good dent in the fishing skill as a child, but has been too busy with school, chores, and siblings, to do much fishing after that first time. She has recently aged up to teen, and has already learned to drive, in only one session, without stressing either herself or her mother at all. That's a first in any of my games.
I'm trying to resist the temptation of boarding school. It's the only way I was able to raise 5 children in past games, but I would like to keep all of these kids home. With school being a rabbithole, and with after school classes and homework, the week days aren't too hard, but boy, the weekend is certainly a challenge. I like my families to do things together on Saturdays, and work on skills on Sundays, and just getting them all from one community lot to another, together, is a challenge. As a celebrity family, though I disallow paparazzi in this game with the Register mod, sometimes the family will arrive at their destination, and somebody will be missing. I'll find them back at the previous lot, having been asked for an autograph or a cell phone photo.
Here's Danielle as a young adult
Nathan came from the adult section of the CAS bin. You may recognize him if you use the bin much, as I did not change his appearance or hair at all.
Oldest daughter Rose
Second daughter Lily
Youngest daughter Daisy
First adopted son, Oleander, who is the youngest of the 5
The final addition to the family, Liatris, who is older than both Oleander and Daisy
The Irwin family at the local hangout. The three girls play dominoes, while the two boys play chess, and their parents play pool.
I originally made the back garage into a recreation room, for the wedding gift pool table, a chess table, and the workout equipment, and had a dominoes table upstairs in the study, but I got tired of the difficulty of managing showers with only 3 bathrooms, and no place to put another, so I put a basement under the house, and put all the recreation equipment down there, then built a bathroom in the former garage bay.
Here's the basement. Since there was extra room, I added a shuffleboard table and hot tub. The photo booth was a wedding gift. The kids like taking silly pictures together in it.
Here's the former garage with the new bathroom - more plumbing fixtures for Danielle to upgrade to self-cleaning! I have a feeling she's not going to get them all finished very long before she dies of old age!
Edits: why is it so hard to see your mistakes until you actually post?
