Teenage Wasteland

GENERATION 1

CURRENT AMOUNT OF KIDS: 8

     As the night goes on, it's clear that the birth of the twins under a full moon has haunting effects on our heroine and the rest of the family. Witness it for yourself!

     To be fair, the twins' crying probably caused these reactions . . . It's a good thing they woke their mother up, because it finally pushed her to finish her book!!

     It even inspired her to write another sports book. Check it out:

     Since we just paid a huge bill, we're going to need as much money as possible.

It's a start.

    Anyway, the next day brings us a nice surprise: seeing kids actually hang out around the playground behind the school!

Chris is gonna start a 100 BC with Francisca real soon. 

"Can you die from boredom, guys?"

       Also, Danny and Emma got onto the honor roll! 

     Not that academic achievement matters, since they're going to all age up today regardless.

    Here are our newest awkward teenagers!

Danny                         Emma                              Fiona

    Fi, unfortunately, is not a heavy sleeper like Em is, so she's going to find herself being Improv Nanny of one twin while Angie's taking care of the other. Observe:

"Too young for this plum."

    (Isn't the resemblance uncanny guys?)

 

    Her brother and sister got a good head-start on the day with a nice, brisk, pretentious cup of tea.

"I'm classier-than-thou, dork."

    The bills got a head-start too:

    The house's finances are going to be a little tight for a while, since I bought Emma and Fiona rather large birthday gifts:


    Emma can finally make use of her Disciplined trait by practicing with the dummy and board breaker, imported straight from Buydebug Shang Simla:

Also, she gets the privilege of stink clouds.

     Fiona has the Gatherer trait, so she gets a scientific research station certified by Sims University . . . in a crappy little backyard shack:

       And they both got new posters for their room.

     Final cost?

    I am such a nice Simmer! Whilst Chris and Danny are dunking away in the backyard to prove whose "da King" of the Court . . .

 . . . I decided to give online dating one last shot before Angeline turns into an elder. Who knows who we'll find on SimHarmony?

     That's manageable. 

Gorgeous Girls

      Angeline, as much as she dearly loves her kids, has been growing weary of waiting for another guy to get her pregnant. She needs to get back in the dating game, and fast -- there's only so much time left for her, even for a Sim -- and the household can only hold one more baby before hitting eight total Sims.

      The day begins with her two teenagers and four kids waking up for another chaotic breakfast session:

"I'm so hungry I'll even eat the mixing bowl."

      After dealing with a piling mountain of lettuce pieces, blueberry pie crumbs and white bread crusts, Aaron decided to give his overworked mom some appreciation, and a boost to the Charisma skill.

His neck must hurt like a mofo.

       The school bus pulls up to the house to pack in the army of Holland kids, and for the first time since she began the 100 BC, Angeline is in the house completely alone. And I will not stand for that!!

    Unlike our previous, flakier victims, Mr. Finley shows up on time in a spiffy Mr. Rogers sweater vest and dreadlocks based on the BDSM lifestyle.

"My thought bubbles are up here."

  
      Conrad, thankfully, is not as discerning with his taste in women.

      Immediately after kicking him out of the house, Angie proceeded to work some more on her novel:

       Aaron got onto the honor roll, too!

       He finally can get his young adult birthday notification celebration!!!

      With Aaron finally reaching EAxis' favorite life stage, he can finally leave the nest and start his life:

And move back into the old house.

     Goodbye, Baby #1! You served your time well. His mom had a really weird want relating to him leaving . . .

Not sure if projecting or nausea.

     Babies #2 - 6 sure aren't ready to fly the coop, though. Danny even invited a little friend of his!

She's the one who clashes horribly with this world.

    Now, since Angie finally recognized her pregnancy -- 

   -- I'm going to speed along for the next two days, because outside of Christopher's teen birthday, abso-freakin'-lutely nothing of note happened. 

                                              .       .       .

                               .       .       .

                                                FINALLY.

Life Overload

  Since the Holland kids are growing older, they're going to need to flesh out their skills to ensure success in their adult lives -- we going to need a lot of hobby objects around the house. 

That's just a really fancy way of saying I bought them a basketball hoop.

     It's a shame that playing dominoes doesn't burn any calories.

     While Emma kicked Danny's butt in a hoops contest and challenged gender roles, Brad proved to the world he is the textbook definition of swag:

Sticking his pinkie out like a boss. All he needs is nerd glasses.

     I also scored us a nice family photo of the Hollands scarfing down some nice quality stu surprise -- and the surprise wasn't that the stu wasn't leftover:

Emma got the surprise first.

    The surprise was that Angie finally finished her book!!

     And that someone broke the dishwasher. And the toilet. And the shower.

She'll be upgrading a lot.

      She has an idea who the culprits are in that case, too:

"Real tired of your shit, guys."

   And as a reward for putting up with her little hellions, I bought her some Lifetime Rewards, and that Bakery Oven:

    Trust me, the kids haunted her over making some kind of dessert. We'll make one first thing in the morning, and the kids weren't the only ones who wanted it . . .

That, or Cedrick likes stalking his kids.

    In the interest of keeping her children healthy, she made a nice autumn salad, too.  

That no one proceeded to eat.

    Meanwhile, Angeline started drafting out her magnum opus:

Come at me, bros.

    Its . . . genius quality was too much for her laptop to handle, so she ended up fixing yet another thing.

     Oh, yeah, and since Brad dislikes children, he'll be no help to us around the house, so we got him a job:

     We have to end on a bittersweet note, though; a lack of sibling bonding and a rejected date: