Wow, you're really powering through this. Congratulations on another completed household skill. 
I thought I had already answered you
I'm really enjoying this project! Maybe I'm a little slow with updates but the challenge keeps me entertained enough to want to continue playing and not write about it lol.
House 3: Handiness – Part 1I haven’t added any expansion, I’m still playing with ambitions and generations.
Beatrice arrived to Twinbrook to take charge of the third house, one I built because I was tired of premade ones.
Even though it was a Sunday, the game marked it as a work day.
Since Beatrice learned athletics before signing up for the firefighting career, my strategy is to learns the handiness skill slowly. I'm going to try to win the job’s first levels through dealing with emergencies and leave the skill for the higher levels. I hope it works!
Firefighters working hard to ensure our safety.
The emergency interrupted them and Beatrice really had to work.
For Beatrice's husband I chose Al Lyfe who is a social worker. So that she could meet him, I did a trick that I used a lot in my decadynasty. Having met any npc (in this case a maid), I use the invite household interaction on the phone, usually only the known npc shows up and the other guests don't but this makes them appear on the relationship panel. Then Beatrice called Al a couple of times until he accepted an invitation to her house.
She thinks he’s on fire, maybe because he’s red. That’s one of the reason I choose him, he’s on the red skin slider.
The other reason are his traits, Al is over emotional, perfectionist, neat, family oriented and hopeless romantic. His lifetime wish is Presenting the Perfect Private Aquarium but it’s going to change to Swimming in Cash.
Al was four days to elder when he joined the household so working a part-time job is the way to go with him. He’s a Grocery Store Clerk.
The newly couple didn’t waste time and tried for baby, three times until the bells sounded.
Beatrice spent her pregnancy mostly reading, I didn’t want her gaining job promotions only by skilling. I was only letting her use the handiness skill mainly to maintain the alarm and the fire engine.
Al's elder birthday soon came.
And this time I did give him a makeover in his favorite color. I hadn't done it when he joined the house because his birthday was very close and I didn't think it was worth the hassle of going into CAS.
Beatrice went into labor the night of Al’s birthday.
Al arrived just in time to panic.
It’s a boy! His name is Cooper, he’s good and grumpy, his favorites are latin music, hotdogs and spiceberry. Unfortunately, he didn’t inherit his father's skin.
Both Beatrice and Al wished for a hot tub and a water slide, she was the one who enjoyed the new items while waiting for her maternity leave to end.
Al collected enough points to change his lifetime wish to Swimming in Cash, which after doing so I realized that I should have anticipated a small problem. Neither adult had jobs that pay well, and the skills unlocked didn't make money (except for opportunities). So the options left to me were dumpster diving and collecting.
For some reason Cooper's baby days seemed to last forever to me so I was happy when his birthday arrived.
He aged to a very cute toddler with random black hair. He’s a good mix of his parents; the nose, jaw and eyes color are from his father, the eyes shape and mouth from his mother (I aged him in CAS with MC and he’s going to be a handsome sim.)
Al was in charge of teaching Cooper his toddler skills because of his family oriented trait.
Beatrice eventually returned to work and responded to an emergency where she finally rescued her first sims. Three down! Twenty seven to go.
All of Beatrice's coworker are women with I think it’s kind of neat. Real girl power here!
I wouldn't have much confidence in the safety of that new uniform, Beatrice.
And to finish this chapter, Al maxed his part time job and resigned immediately because with the pay of this job it’s better to use the hours in other thing like raising money to fulfill his lifetime wish.
I think in a couple of days I’ll have another chapter, until next time.
