Monday, September 7, 2009
I've kind of had enough of Max's party life style for the time being and decided to check in on Emily Waters last night. It's been a while since I checked on her to make sure she was still managing to get up in the morning after all that happened to her. I'm happy to report that she is, and life is actually starting to get back on track slightly.
Still struggling with the complete lack of money, she is thankful that both Susie and Thomas are still happy to be bottle fed as she's not sure she can afford to feed them much else at the moment. Emily's diet has taken a bit of a turn as well, being forced to survive on jam sandwiches and tinned soup for the most part. At least she can't really comfort eat herself fat...
Life as a single mother with two toddlers is proving tiresome. Her days consist of feeding mouths, emptying the potty and changing bums when they don't make it in time, picking up the toys and trying to get some writing in here and there in the hopes it will keep the roof over her head. So far she has managed to keep the debt collectors at bay, barely. There were two days where she had to pay the babysitter with that day's earnings from work.
Thankfully though, with her ability to pick herself up and put on a very fake smile while at work, she managed to earn herself a small, but helpful promotion.
It's certainly not something to brag about, but it brings in some additional money - now only half her wage goes to the babysitter instead of all of it. It's a far cry from the Police force she was in prior to getting pregnant with Thomas, but she's happy that she doesn't have to think while she's there, or talk to anyone if she doesn't feel like it. No one seems to mind her quietness and they never ask any questions. She's happy with that for the time being.
Thankfully the kids seemed to have bounced back quite well. I'm going to assume their young age is going to help them with that - their memories rivaling a gold fish, they won't have that same sense of loss and emptiness that Emily feels on a daily basis. Susie even learned to walk the other day which, for the first time since the funerals for Adrian and Grandpa, Emily found herself completely forgetting all the sadness and was just happy for once. She was very proud of Susie, tossing her in the air so high there was almost a new skylight in the roof!
It's good to see that the sim children in game are quite similar to real life children... or perhaps at least my child. In an attempt tp keep the kids happy so Emily could write her novels, and being completely sick of the wish to purchase it showing, Emily splurged a bit and bought a doll house. Here Susie is playing with the doll house people... perhaps she's pretending she's Godzilla?
My own daughter is SO destructive, nothing really lasts around her. If there is a way to break it, remove a part or just tear it in two? She will find the way. Thankfully for the little man being beheaded by Susie, he will live to fight another day...
I did have to chuckle at Thomas too. He must have spent the better portion of an entire day inside the toy box lol. The entire time Emily was writing in the desk beside the box, he was happily playing inside... either that, or the daylight scares him?
So far the house hold appears to be holding up ok. Time will tell if there are any long term scars, but so far so good. I'll be keeping an eye on them for the next few days to make sure...
3 comments:
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I love it when toddlers get inside the toy box."...or the daylight scares him?" You re really funny. :D
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Heheh thankyou. I'm curious to see what happens too. Unfortunately Adrian kept Emily pretty bound to the house as he left her to do all the house work and look after the kids. So at the moment she doesn't really know anyon, which is going to prove difficult if she is to fulfill her "5 children" wish lol...
Awesome! I'm really going to enjoy seeing what happens to these guys :-)