@CeresIn , Thanks for commenting, I really appreciate the encouragement.
@Malley , I really lucked out having the one I named Shaka getting the insane trait.
Another Sunday, another birthday…or two. Thad aged up first. His traits are now Disciplined, Loves the Outdoors, Vegetarian, and Handy. You want to wear your hair long and in a ponytail? Go for it.
He immediately ran out to slap at the sparring dummy. It didn’t last though. He was soon back on the waterslide.
Tina’s traits are now Genius, Perceptive, Bookworm, and Avant Garde.
Tina wanted to try some street art so the family installed a wall in the backyard to keep her out of trouble. One ground mural and two small wall murals later, she had her skill up to level 6. Then she sort of lost interest and went back to wishing to write.
The birthday excitement was too much for Suzie. Grim took her away later that day at age 90.
The family clung together for comfort.
Shaka brushed off her grief and reached level five in her sculpting career.
Shaka: I’m still not a lion!
You haven’t Made a lion yet, but you completed your lifetime wish so you can keep trying.
Shaka wasn’t the only one to fulfill her lifetime wish. Mortimer is now a Master of the Arts.
Tina and Thadius raced off to prom. They tore up the dance floor where someone named Ethan was a joke. They were voted king and queen and got into fights. In other words, a typical prom.
One day after school, Thad went to do homework with Emerald Greenwood.
Emerald: If a flower has twenty petals and you remove 12, well, that would just be mean.
They bonded over their vegetarianism and other things.
Perhaps inspired by Emerald, Thad wished to learn to garden. So sure, why not?
Tina moved on to other things.
Tina: Hmm…it’s a decent statue, but I don’t understand Mom’s obsession.
And with any luck, you never will.
A few days before the teens’ next birthday, Johnnie went with Grim at the age of 103.
Hey Grim, the headlock was unnecessary. Johnnie was perfectly content to go.
Tina loves going to the library. One day on her way out, she ran into an old friend from school. Parker Prudence (?) had aged up but still appreciated Tina’s radical ideas. He has the lowest sim voice I have ever heard.
The day before the twins were to become young adults, Mortimer became an elder, quite conveniently close to a mirror and dresser.
Shaka: It’s okay. Just take a deep breath and smell the incense.
I will be leaving for a week in Mexico in two days. Fortunately the tip of Baja will not be struck by the category five hurricane making landfall much further south. The people of Cabo are still recovering from last year’s storm. My thoughts are prayers are with the people of Puerto Vallarta. Two hundred mile an hours winds!