The Broke Family Part 2
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The Pleasantview Diaries
The Pleasantview Diaries
The Pleasantview Diaries
The Pleasantview Diaries
The Broke Family Part 1
Saturday
The next morning, Dustin os still struggling with his acne, so he applies some cream to his face (also you may have noticed already, but his handcuffs never came off after he got busted sneaking out…I don’t know how to get them off)
Brandi is still meeting the people who walk past her house and has one lightning bolt with Komei Tellerman. She doesn’t know if it’ll go anywhere, she may still keep looking for someone better, but she does like him enough. He also gets along well with Beau.
Brandi works on teaching Skip how to talk. It’s hard with her motives so low all the time, and when they’re finally up Skip is ready for a nap or a bottle. Still, she wants him to grow up well so she’s going to put the effort in so he learns.
Beau on the other hand wants to increase his skill in something. He takes out a book from the bookshelf since he has a big interest in food, but at his age he can’t actually cook. His family can’t afford to get a kid’s oven so that’s out of the question, but he can still increase the skill well enough through books.
Brandi has to stop teaching Skip for a while to get her needs back up, so he decides to play with the xylophone on the lot. He really enjoys himself. He increased his creativity skill too!
Finally, as the night came to a close, Brandi and Dustin are fast asleep. Their needs are harder to keep up than the two littler ones. They have less responsibilities to handle throughout the day. They bond late that night when both of them are still awake, playing with one another and looking forward to the next day.
This is the end of my first week with the Broke family! I feel like it got less interesting later in the week, but hopefully there’ll be more in the next week. I really wanted to find someone for Brandi, but she can’t afford the matchmaker right now and no one had that many lightning bolts to have me too excited about their prospects with her. Hopefully someone comes along soon and she can get working on her family some more as well as getting herself a job. Next time Dustin will probably be eligible to go to college as well, with his teen years ending soon. Will he be able to maintain his grades enough to get in? and will he get any scholarships?
The Pleasantview Diaries
The Broke Family Part 1
Friday
The next day, Brandi starts talking to the guys who pass by the house. She got the desire to get married again, but that wasn’t going to happen unless she met new people. None of them had great chemistry though, so they probably would only stay friends in the end.
Dustin comes home from school. It’s the end of the school week, and Dustin ends up increasing his grade a little. It still isn’t great though. His report card came back with a C. Overall, it’s passable, but he needs to work harder to try and get it higher. He also has to get working on some skills for his part time job. Brandi still hasn’t gotten any job, she’s decides to stay home with Skip until he’s a child. Then she’ll pursue a career. The family has enough funds saved up from Dustin’s job. Plus, recently, Dustin took a chance betting on a horse at work. It had 17:1 odds and he won big, bringing home $400.
After the elementary school gets out, Beau comes home ecstatic. He got his A+! He got a lot of lifetime reward points for this. He’s been working toward this goal.
As the evening went on, Beau finishes his homework, Dustin goes to work, and Skip ends up growing up into a toddler! Brandi is excited to see her son getting older. It (almost) makes her want another one! (She had a want to have a baby, but she also had a fear to have a baby. So she wants one but also really doesn’t.)
Brandi helps style Skip’s hair and clothes so he’s more comfortable
She puts him to bed shortly after. It’s getting late for a little one.
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The Broke Family
Thursday
The next morning Brandi works on fixing up the house. It’s a disaster. Dustin did what he could when he was home, but Brandi wasn’t the cleanest and with her being so ill from her pregnancy, she wasn’t doing any of the cleaning at all. Now that she’d had little Skip, she started cleaning up all the old dishes, the bathtub, and even unclogging their toilet. She got really dirty through this process, but she got a bath shortly after.
Brandi spent some quality time with her new baby as well. After her bath, she fed him his bottle and snuggled him a little before putting him back down for a nap.
She also decides to make the boys breakfast as a treat. Since she’d been so sick, she hadn’t cooked a warm meal in a while, leaving that to Dustin or as leftovers in the fridge for them to eat at their leisure. She realizes she still had a lot of cleaning to do in the kitchen, and she plans to get that done, but she’s going to enjoy a family meal with her boys first.
The rest of the day went by rather uneventfully, but Dustin had some bad news when he got home. His report card showed his grades dropping. He knew he had to get them up as soon as possible, but he still had work again after school. On top of that, he got acne! This was not looking like a good day for him.
Once again, Beau works on his homework when he gets home. He didn’t finish it, stopping to play some games first, but he went back to it after he played with the pinball machine for a while. He really wants to get an A+ report card so he can show it off proudly.
After work, Dustin also begins to get his homework done. He has three booklets that needed finishing, but he’s determined to get it done. He sits there for hours after work, doing each assignment until his pile dwindled into nothing. He was proud of himself, and he hopes it’s enough to get his grades looking a little nicer.
The Pleasantview Diaries
The Broke Family Part 1
Tuesday
The next day, Dustin almost sleeps through, but his mom wanted to make sure he got up in time, so he was woken up. He felt off though, having had a dream about his girlfriend’s sister. What was that about?
Meanwhile, Brandi makes some cereal for breakfast. She’s hungrier than ever with this baby on the way! (Also, I never noticed Bella Goth on the side of the carton as a missing person! I love it)
As the day progresses, Brandi struggles more and more with her needs. She ends up passing out in her soup later in the day, and Dustin comes home from school and finds her this way. There isn’t much he can do now though, he’s in a rush. He starts work soon! Brandi also wakes up shortly after falling asleep in her food, and her belly grows again! She’s still exhausted and hungry. She’s worried this will only get worse now that she’s progressed further into her pregnancy.
Later that night after he got done his work shift, Angela stopped by! He greeted her with a huge kiss and they made out for a while. Whatever his dream was last night, he’s not thinking about it now. He’s totally in love with Angela and is happy with her.
Brandi on the other hand is still struggling. She tried to get to bed, being exhausted and hungry but not being able to make anything in her state, but before she could make it, she passed out on the floor at the foot of her bed. She was just too tired to carry on anymore. Thankfully she landed on her back, so no damage came to the baby.
While his mom slept on the floor, Beau toddled along into the room. He looked at her briefly before he felt the change coming on. The next thing he knew, he was a child! He grew up well, which had him very happy. He needed a bath though, with all the stress his mom is under, she forgot to give him one today. Thankfully now he can give them to himself, so off he went to bathe and get ready for bed that night.
Wednesday
Brandi eventually woke up and made it to her bed in the night. She slept so soundly that she didn’t even hear the kids go off to school!
Later in the day, Dustin comes back from school only to get ready for work. His homework is piling up again, without any days off and how little his mom has been around, he doesn’t really have the time to spend on something that doesn’t really interest him. He still plans to try though.
Shortly after Dustin leaves for work, Beau comes home from his day at school. Unlike his brother, the first thing he does is get out the pen and paper and get started on his homework. He enjoys school and wants to keep learning!
Brandi goes into labor!! She’s excited for the new family member and hopeful that she’ll be able to pull herself together again once the baby is born.
he has a cute baby boy! She names him Skip after his late father. She really wishes he was here so he could see their new bundle of joy. (Note: I downloaded the Clean Premade EA/Maxis Neighborhoods so her baby has Skip’s genes as well as hers, unlike the premade neighborhood before, and also he isn’t predetermined to be a boy. It just happened to work out that way.)
Dustin gets home from work and immediately softens at the new baby. He loves the name he has and is happy to see he looks a lot like his father too. Blonde hair and blue eyes. Just like him and Beau. Seeing this new little boy made Dustin decide that he had to live to be great. If not for himself, then for his father. He would want Dustin to succeed in life, not work in the Criminal career track having to watch his back all the time. Still, he wasn’t going to quit until his mom got a job, especially with his new promotion, but he could get going with his homework.
So that’s what he does. But after such a long day, he really isn’t into it. He’s had no fun at all and quits rather quickly. He knows it’s bad for him, but he needs more time to get himself put together. He’ll do it. He’s sure of it. Just not tonight.
Victoria Sims 