Welcome to The Worthington III Family. They are... :)
Francis J, his wife Tina (Lothario- twin sister to Val). They had twins themselves, Charles J and Candice J.
Having lived in a cramped town house for the first round this working couple found they were able to afford a new house to start the round now that they were both Top of Career. Tina a Celebrity Chef and Francis J a Media Magnate.
and thanks to a good bonus at work for Francis J, they were able to afford to decorate and furnish it!
Family Sim Tina enjoys keeping up with her friendships.
The twins work on their skill building.
Tina can now make all kind of clothes thanks to her hard work at Sewing.
She juggles her job as a Celebrity Chef with taking care of her home and children.
She even gets to enjoy five minutes peace in her new bathroom.
and that in her new bedroom... :)
Tina has wishes for another baby but as she's perma platinum I am not fulfilling her wishes anymore.
The toddlers become children. First Charles J.
Then Candice J. She got more of her Father's 'unusual' features I think.
Their first wishes were to earn a skill, and playing at the table also built their already good friendship to best friendship.
Charles J wished for a puppy to join the family and so the burgeoning pool of puppies was lessened by one as little Brina joined the family. (Her doggy parents are Curly & Alegra and they are human owned by Tina's brother Marco and his wife Cass).
Candice J wishes to stargaze, a lot. I hope this isn't tempting fate for future years.
As outgoing Sims both children brought a friend home from school. Charles J brought home Dandy Dreamer.
and Candice J brought home Bobby Broke.
Playtime was cut short by Dad Francis J as he insisted on helping first Charles J,
then Candice J with their homework.
The hard work paid off for Charles J when he showed off his A+ card to his Mother.
Charles J's wishes revolve around Brina mainly, he wants to become her Master.
Tina spends lots of time in the vast garden raking leaves and doing a spot of fishing. She even got chance to get fit.
Francis J actually did some cooking one day. Tina must have been at work. :D
He got Charles J to help with some chores before school.
On Saturday the family were invited to a community lot and so with the children in mind they headed to the Similar Sights Sculpture Park. A Park I've never visited before!
They all launched into sociable mode and talked to everyone.
Naturally Francis J would be drawn to the Diva. Should we be worried that Tina is chatting to the Slob? :D Of course he is married to her twin sister Val!
Hands up who knew children could use this?! 'That 70's show' flashback anyone? :D
On Sunday it was family day and Tina invited as many of her large family over that could come.
Francis J insisted on teaching the children some skills before they could meet the family. First Candice.
She was very excited to meet her Grandmother Kaylynn and Aunt Celeste for the first time.
The thing I love about career rewards is that a Sim can learn from more than one at a time when being tutored. As Francis J and Tina have just these two skill builder rewards the kids get to learn cooking and mechanical at the same time. (I have found a child can learn 4 skills at once though if you have the rewards available).
Also... have you ever seen their expressions when they learn from the operating table?
hmm, yes, interesting...
ewww, feeling a bit icky now...
"GAG!"
"GROSS!"
It would be funny if Charles J was destined to be a Doctor after all that. :D
Meanwhile the family catch up. Tina plays red hands with her twin brother Marco whilst his twin brother Juan catches up with their youngest sister Celeste.
The girls sit down and enjoy some cake.
Tina greets a late arrival in her sister Kaydon.
at the same time remembering that unless she wants to lose precious family items she really needs to take care of those red bills!
Summary- quite a fun week here at the Worthington III's.
Both Francis J and Tina are permanently platinum having gained those last round so I left them to their own devices mainly.
The kids had usual kid wishes, playing with Brina, stargazing, doing homework, making friends.
If you recognise the house it's one from the old TSR challenges. I think this one was the Renovation challenge house. I liked the house so much I'd packaged it up and it suits this family and hopefully will be filled for future generations.
I have 2 other 'new' families, the Long sisters and newly divorced Jan (Tellerman) Gregory but I'm going to add them in next round with some new rules and so this is the last family in Round 11!
Round 12 is already on the go! Happy Simming!
The children look lovely, love the outings and family visiting. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks, I’m excited to see how they grow up, especially Candice J as she definitely has Francis J’s features. :)
DeleteThe house is great! I don't know it, so it is interesting to have a look both inside and out.
ReplyDeleteI had no idea kids can learn so many skills at the same time when the career rewards are in the house - must remember that in my next household with children.
I shall take some more layout pics next time!
DeleteYes the multi skilling is great, you just start by asking to be taught one skill, then once that’s started move onto the next and so on. It’s a useful way to put fully skilled, perma plat adults to good use.:)
How funny *making faces*!!! That is one of the things I love about TS2. I think twinsies run generationally? I remember the play when I discovered multi skilling. Yep you can do as many career objects that you can stack. Just doesn’t work very well with the science reward. But the rest, yeah. Even when I have the education bookcase on the lot I will use the career object method for skilling up cuz it is fun.
ReplyDeleteYes the expressions are something so unique to TS2. It's funny how twins works isn't it? Tina is one of two sets of twins born to her parents and yet the only 'child' so far to have her own twins. Mind you out of her 5 other siblings and 1 half sibling she is only the 2nd to reproduce so far.
DeleteI love seeing the interactions with the career rewards, they make for more interesting watching than just reading a book although I quite like an education bookcase in a college dorm! :)
Wow, I had no idea about the multiple skilling, so like they keep learning the other one when you move to the next one? That is quite interesting.
ReplyDeleteHaha, I love the faces they make with the surgery dummy. So funny!!! Great job, and it was nice to see so much of the family together!
Yes you can learn up to 4 skills, so say start with your child asking to be taught cooking at the machine, then once they get started (without cancelling anything) just move to something else such as the Punch bag and ask to be taught that, then let the teaching Sim move to that and start tutoring and so on. The golf putter (charisma) and medi table (mechanical) along with the first two are my fav's to do this with. :)
DeleteI should say that the teaching adult needs to have more skills than they are teaching or it doesn't work :D