Julio is 36, Rebecca is 33, Abel and Amanda are 7
It's funny how life has a way of sneaking up on you. You remember your glory years of seeing the world.
Now you simply exist in a day to day manner. You try to change the routine."Maybe I'll use mustard instead of mayo for the kids sandwiches today."
You even expand your family and adopt the convential dog, to add to your convential 2 kids and picket fence, but decide to break tradition and give it the untoken name of Decade.
No matter what, life still pulls you into that daily routine. Where discussing the bills and finances is the topic of conversation most simdays.
You love your spouse, of course. No thoughts of straying or entertaining forbidden fantasies. You are committed to them and thier love, unlike many of the couples around you.
To not love your spouse would mean that life isn't routine...which it unbearably is.
You love them with the unchanging devotion of the sun rising each day, with the expected consistency of the double moons in the night time sky.
It's expected. You love them with a passion, not the same youthful passion with its roaring flames, but the cozy comfortable passion, like a favorite blanket on a cold day.
Even the children are routine. Playing on the playground every day after school, before thier snack and homework. The teasing is routine, nothing out of the ordinary. The same "nah nah nah! You're a cabbage brain!!!"
You read books in which the sims are perfectly exciting! Everything is exciting, but who can get excitement out of visiting the grocers and picking up fresh produce. After a while it gets like the bread in the back of the cabinet, stale.
You consider a change, a tattoo or hairstyle change. You only have the guts for the tattoo that your daughter helped you pick out from the grocer's vending machine. It will be gone by the morning.
Even the dog is bored. Decade spends his days napping. The routine has become like a prison. You barely heard the words of your child bubbling over with excitement about the A+ they made on thier first book report.
"Congratulations." you say later, but by then they have moved on.
Someday you hope that life won't be routine anymore, simply passing you by. Someday you hope to see it through the eyes of your children, where seeing thier first baseball game is the highlight of thier life.
For now, you settle into the routine and wait for life to throw a curveball.
Summer had arrived once again and to celebrate Veronika's birthday, Aunt Suzanna flew in from Eden.
And to the beach they went. Jesse surprised Fiona with a brand new beachhouse that featured plenty of room for Veronika to run around and the adults to enjoy the hottub.
Meanwhile, Veronika convinced Aunt Suzanna to build sandcastles with her at the beach.
To pass the time until the tour, the family decided to have a dance party of sorts. Jesse and Fiona swayed to the music, while Veronika happily bounced around. Bill had wisely escaped to the restroom and Suzanna kept glancing around to see if any other sims saw her dancing alone.
The family was able to squezze in a tour before the sky opened up and buckets of rain fell to the ground. Jesse enjoyed it and even developed a few lesson plans around the history of the boat while he surveyed the land from the top of the ship.
After a quick dinner of Luau Ribs, the family opted for some night swimming.
"I think friendship is important. You have to be best friends. You need some kind of foundation to build a relationship on."
"This coming from the guy who fell in love at first sight."
"Has your sister mentioned anything about tonight?" Fiona asked Jesse when he walked downstairs. 
"At least those two are attracted to each other." Fiona whispered as they watch them dance.
"I doubt it. Suzanna has that silly look on her face and is grinning like a cat with a toothbrush stuck sideways in it's mouth."
The ferry ride back to the island seemed like minutes. After changing, Suzanna went straight to the piano to pluck out a few tunes. She had a lot to think about. Suzanna doesn't think she has ever met anyone that she's gotten along so well with so quickly. Her plans of adoption and moving to something smaller in her hometown of Eden was starting to waver after her chats with Bradford and now this amazing date.
Li took advantage of her maternity leave by catching up on reading and doing a few architectual sketches. Her job with the SUN News was going well, her readership was increasing and her boss said that she showed potentional. Unfortunately, there were no empty slots which meant no promotions...at least for a while. She was doing much better with designing a few buildings for the hood council. She missed her first love. Designing buildings and homes gave her such energy. Something that she didn't have a lot of recently with four children. Would she have chosen this life? She's not sure. She perfers the life of a career woman. The kind of life that requires a cute downtown apartment with views of the city, designer furniture and martinis, a great job where she was on the fast track to the top and a cute guy to share it with. Kids were optional, but life gave her four. It's no secret that she bore her children to please Tobi. Don't take it any other way, she loves them now that they're here, but four is a bit much. 
Thankfully the hood council called her back for a special project. Her position as Archives/Technology Director was recently demoted to a contract commissioned position and she was paid based on the jobs she did. Thankfully the special project of compling all the blogs into one easy-to-read format would keep her busy for a few simyears and the additional pay was very welcomed, especially with four young mouths to feed. There wasn't money left over for designer furniture and fancy dinners in the city. Most times she ate the standard overdone porkchop with gummy mashed potatoes.
Most of her maternity leave simdays were spent caring for Matt and playing with the triplets. The small family fell into a routine fairly quickly. After waking up and letting the triplets out of thier cribs for some playtime and cereal bits served on the floor, Li and Tobi managed to stuff a few frozen pasteries in thier mouth before Tobi had to leave for work. By that time, Matt was screaming and needed a bottle and bath. After lunch, the sacred hour of naptime approached.
Li would put the triplets down first and sit Matt in his bouncer next to her computer. By the time the machine booted up, Matt was asleep and Li was able to either work on her special project with the hood council, submit an article or two to 
She is hoping for a publishing contract from 
"Well, it doesn't so what you need right now is a big fluffly pillow to the face!" Li screamed before slamming the sofa pillow on her friend. The women played a short game of pillow fight before collasping on the sofa in a fit of giggles.
"How was work?" Li asks, embracing her husband in a kiss.
It was time for the triplet's bath, so Li tossed Matt into the air.
She collasped on the sofa and words poured from her mouth. "I'm so tired, this pregnancy has drained me. Not to mention having Breckin around. He's a very active toddler, always rushing off to the toilet! The twins keep bringing thier little friends over and I just can't handle four kids running around the house. I think I've sent them off to play in the field so many times! I expected cravings but gosh, these pregnancy hormones just make me want to woohoo all the time and Grex won't even cuddle with me anymore! This baby must be huge! I'm getting fat all over, not just baby belly."
The two friends stared at each other, the feelings that had remained dormant since high school stirred to life within them. They don't recall who made the first move, but somehow thier lips found each other. That old attraction roared to life, burning brightly.
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