Tifani Triumph: Other Houses 4

Our weekly tour through the Other Houses is brought to you by my slowly slipping sanity and the number 5.  As this may well be one of the last weeks there are only 5 Other Houses.  The twins are all starting to grow up and the rest of the Minions of Mischief are soon behind.  Let's jump in!

Martha's House

Looking forward to a quiet, easy week at Martha's.  Love, while still a toddler will soon be growing up and there are to be no more babies here.  There is the knowledge that soon Martha and Talin will age to elder and one step closer to date's with Grimmy, but for now contentment on life is what's important.  And setting Faith and Hope up for lives, and futures, of their own.  

Love continued to build her toddler skills this week with Mom and Dad.  She developed great relationships with each of her family members and grew up with all skills and with lots of love.  Martha and Talin each aged to elder during this same time frame and are still in love with each other as much today as the day they first got together.

What I believed was to be a blessedly uneventful week took a slight twist toward the creep/gross when Hope brought home her cousin Issac from work.  That, in and of itself, is not the creepy part.  It went gross when the option to flirt came up!

Please don't judge the photography, the outside pictures were taken with my cell phone and sent to The Maker via text message to share the revulsion.  However, She thought it was cute.  She thought it was a great idea to let them develop a relationship.  She even went so far as to research the legality of marrying your 3rd cousin.  Apparently in some states, not to name names but states such as where She lives, it's legal to marry your first cousin.  Blech!  I've not touched that situation at all.  They chatted, gossiped and she sent him on his way.  I just, dry heaves ya know.  What do you think?

Peter's House
Off to Peter's house across the breezeway we go.  Lily is a child and growing up is hard work.  Lily is a child that seems to never be happy.  Never.  Happy. Ever.  Even doing happy things didn't make much of a dent in the happiness meter when she stopped.  She lost happiness by the buckets even sleeping.  However, that is all that happened.  Literally.  Not. One. Interesting. Thing. Happened.  A few promotions, not that they matter with this family.  A few friends.  Some meltdowns by Lily over her sheer unhappiness.  That was it.  I don't know which is worse, nothing to break the monotony or going to Abigail's house of sheer baby-wanting chaos.  But, just so there's something to break up the words here's a picture of Lily being not temper-tantrum melty-downy this week.  Sleeping...

That's it.  That is all I have for you.  Peter wants a baby, Ivy doesn't so no baby.  Perhaps there will be noteworthy occurrences next week?

Mary's House
It wasn't long after I walked in the door that Mary went into labor.

 I felt like Zachariah was an infant for only a blink before he aged to toddler.  As a toddler he worked hard with his doting parents to learn all his skills, including nursery rhyme, well before his child birthday.  Jace did pop in to visit one day while Mary was at work and Shea let him see his Grandson briefly.  Shea also reminded him that he really needed to talk to Mary.  That Shea couldn't continue to go behind her back like this.

It was a mostly uneventful week for Mary and Shea and by the end of the week Zachariah grew to a child and it was time to say goodbye, for now, and head across the street to Abigail's House of Chaos.  Pray for me?

Does anyone else notice how blonde and light-skinned Zachariah is?  His mom's genetics must be recessive next to Shea's stronger ones? 


Abigail's House
 Hold on to your socks because this house will send even the strongest willed Sim to the Shrink.  Two adults and six children ranging in age from teenagers to infant.  Let's face it, I like to keep my finger on what my Sims are doing, to help them with promotions, relationships or even just basic needs.  In this house they should consider themselves lucky to eat occasionally and that there is more than one bathroom to use.  I try, bless their little wayward child-wanting hearts, I do try.

Not too long into the week and it was Birthday day.  Baby Andrew grew to a toddler (oh gravy the skills), Clarence and Abigail to Elder.  Do you know what that means?  It's like it was my birthday really.  No. More. Babies!  No more.  Repeat after me...no.more.babies!

For a moment there were two toddlers in the house to deal with, I mean love.  Yeah, love that's it.  It didn't last long before Bethany had her child birthday.

Yes, that is the last remaining toddler of the house looking on from his cage, I mean crib.  Crib.

Andrew worked with whomever was available to gain his toddler skills.  And to be fair in a household of this size there is most generally someone available to interact with.  He did well and was fully skilled before his childhood birthday came around.

Andrew grew up well, and this house is done with little one's...for now.  Clarence walks around with a desire to call for a baby but forget it.  This house is full to the brim.  Perhaps he will be lucky enough to live long enough to see his grandchildren.  You know that pressure on his kids, I mean want, that want is coming.

Samuel's House
 Samuel is the last of generation 5 to officially take over the household and he's still technically, for 2 more days, just a teen.  He's always been such a Momma's boy that he's not even scouted out a future partner but there's time.  Kinda.  I almost feel like he needs to fast track the adulting since his cousin is already expecting generation 7.

On his birthday to adulthood Samuel comes home from work just in time to age at the mailbox.  Meanwhile Brandon's cleaning the bathroom when Grimmy shows up very unexpectedly.  Needless to say Samuel will be navigating adulthood alone.

Happy Birthday Samuel, your Daddy has passed on.  And did you catch the head wear?  Me thinks he drank the Kool-Aide and I am pretty certain he voted for his cousin in the latest election.

Brandon Triumph was an interesting man.  He loved Delilah with all his soul.  Perhaps not his heart as he still had a bit of wanderlust, but he staid true.  Even in death. Their courtship spanned two homes as Delilah was still living with her brother when they met.  They moved in together soon after Delilah moved into her own place but neither were in a hurry for commitment, content to pursue their own lives for a while.  However when Delilah discovered her pregnancy with Samuel they decided to dive into marriage feet first and both instantly had regrets.  Perhaps, had they gone headfirst instead they could have ironed those out beforehand.  Regardless, the remained together, in love.  There were rough patches, to be certain.  But even those were worked through and their love for each other, and for their son, remained strong.  And like many of the greats before him Brandon had a major life experience...in the bathroom.

Losing his dad just as he began his path through adulthood through Samuel sideways into necessary adulty behaviors.  His existing friendship with Gwen Howe found a life of it's own and before long he began to feel as though she might be the one.  A whirlwind of flirting led to their first kiss.  Their first kiss led to her moving in.  Her moving in led to their engagement.  Their engagement led to their marriage.

Where will there marriage lead...