Grex and Ginger are 34, Bryant and Annie are 11, Breckin is 3, Lara is 2, Indira is 1, and Richmond is 1 simlonic month
Summer at the Grey house was busy. The twins were enjoying the hot days with daily water balloon fights
in the front yard. Their screams piercing the heated air.
The twins were much older and it showed daily as they participated more in the household chores.
Bryant has taken to entertaining Indira with silly songs about flying llamas and places that only had one moon. What an imagination he had. Annie had made it her mission to teach Lara how to talk, so every simday after lunch, she would sit on the floor with homemade flashcards and teach Lara basic words.
The twins help with the younger children allowed thier parents to focus on the other two children. Breckin would soon be starting school and had yet to learn how to use the potty. Grex was determined that this was the year, as he hated having four children in diapers. Since the family used cloth diapers, that meant a lot of unpleasant handwashing and drying.
"I'm not sure if this will be a good harvest year," Grex explained during one of the couple's rare moments of quiet. The younger four children were napping and the twins were at friends' houses.
"What about the roast meals that I make, how are they doing?"
"They're flying off the shelves, though more residents have been asking for your pie."
"But the harvest isn't looking good?"
"No," he sighed. "Some of them have been infested with pests and I managed to save the bulk of the produce, but there has been damage already. I'm hoping that the quality is still good, otherwise simoleans will be really tight this winter."
It wasn't that the market wasn't successful, it was. Grex's sister, Giselle, still worked early mornings fishing for the market,
while her husband, Joey, helped with tending the crops.
Their help made it possible for Grex to focus on taking care of the customers,
including those reporters from the paper.
However, Grex had some big responsibilities, including saving for the children's college fund. At $10,000 a sim-the Grey family was looking to be out of $60,000 for all their children to attend university. That type of money was something they didn't have thanks in part to taxes the cost of doing business. Everytime they got ahead, then expenses came up, be it adoption fees, taxes or paying off a loan. Hopefully soon, they would get ahead and stay ahead.
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Hope they will manage to save up some money, as college money is needed and fees are high. It is not good about the crop at all, but hopefully things work out and it won't cause them to much heart ache.
ReplyDeleteIt is nice they get some time to themselves though and that older children help out.
Oh, no, I have a couple of families who seem like they're in a cycle like that. As soon as they get a bit of money together, along come taxes to take it all away!
ReplyDeleteI love that picture of Lara!
I have one particular family that is in that never ending cycle. Eveytime I think things are about to get better, something else happens.
ReplyDeleteBryant and Annie are close to being teens so maybe they can help out more on the farm.
Speechless, hopefully things will improve, otherwise the children may have to go into debt for college...or not go at all.
ReplyDeleteCarla, if you're talking about the little girl with the black hair-that's Indira, the redhead is Breckin, sorry for the confusing text.
Oasis Valley, those two help out a lot already, cleaning everything in sight, maybe once they're teens they can pick up a newspaper route.