Uh...I'm back. For now. No promises while I'm in school, unfortunately, but thanks to *gestures widely* all of this going on now, I have some time! So Gregorys it is. This is our first chapter with Simon on the cover. Hurray for the gen. 8 heir! Just think: the birth of his grandchild will end the legacy! So that should only take me five years or so. >:(
Anyway, let's see. Where did we leave off? Simon is the oldest of five, children of three different fathers but the same mother, our gen. 7 heiress Eleanor. Middle child Rowan and the triplets (Alison, Logan, and Jason) are all dead weight as far as continuing the legacy goes, so we gotta grow 'em up and ship 'em out. Meanwhile, Simon will need to grow into our handsome and meticulously-groomed prince, Eleanor will continue working in archaeology, her parents Celeste and Rafael will do...stuff, and her grandfather (Simon's great-grandfather), the inimitable former bodybuilder and current master chef, Andres, will just keep the awesome coming. Not to mention our sweet ball of fluff, Nova the Simstagram star and Eleanor's best friend and housemate, Kenzie. So that makes ten sims and one dog in the house currently. Whew! Guess I better chip away at it. Dive on in...
(originally published 1/4/15)
I am moving the Slideshares of the first six chapters over here to the blog, so here's Chapter 3 . . . again.
(originally published 11/25/14)
I'm moving the first six chapters from Slideshares to this blog, so here is Chapter 2 . . . again!
Ooooooookay! Let's get a move on before school starts and I have no time. When we left off, heiress Eleanor had rekindled her romance with her first boyfriend (Owen) after having two boys, each with a different deadbeat dad, and eschewing the married life to move in her best friend, Kenzie. She abandoned social media for the promise of archaeology. And when we finished, she had just gotten pregnant for the third and final time of this generation, the first pregnancy she's planned for. The boys are growing up and they're going to have another sibling join them soon, and the house is hopping with sims since we've got three elders, two young adults, one dog, two toddlers, and one pregnancy. If you notice the problem with that, congrats! You are better at counting than I was at the time I played this! Here's your prize: jump on in . . .
An important trait in an heiress is the ability to take flattering and interesting photos.
Hmm. Maybe there's a reason Eleanor isn't succeeding at social media.
Anyway, we left off with a gen. 8 toddler, Simon, and a baby on the way, neither of whose fathers are in the picture, but we do have unflirty Kenzie around to help out, along with the elder three members of the Gregory family. Let's see where we left them . . .
Okay, okay, okay. Hopefully we're on a roll. Let's see when I can finish this. I've got this plus two more chapters completely laid out but not written. When we left off, Eleanor was having a crisis of direction (as many young people do) but she had a brand-new son, Simon, to look out for too. He's been left in the care of his grandmother and godmother while Eleanor heads to Selvadorada to follow her passion for archaeology (and maybe a passion for something -- or someone -- else?). She hopes to find herself there, so let's see what she does find . . .
(Just as a warning, there is skinny dipping, so there are some un-mosaic-ed sim butts in here, but nothing worse. Just in case you're reading in public!)
Well hello, hello. School's out, so that makes it writing season once again. I didn't mean to be so dramatic about it, but we've left Eleanor in the lurch a bit for . . . (checks) . . . a few months shy of a whole year. Whoops. Anyway, that cliffhanger was that Eleanor got pregnant during her young adult birthday, and when she confronted the father (Kaiden), he balked. We're going to pick up right where we left off, with the tension in the kitchen so thick you could cut it with the same knife used on the birthday cake . . .
