16. Family time"Wanna come home and meet my family? I live with my grandma's, all six of them...."
- Beata Aurora (cited from The 8th Immortal)Brycen: So kids...
Lucas: What? Why are you looking at me that way?
Melker: Dude, are you wearing that out of the house?
Britta: Yes daddy?
Brycen: I'm getting older, my age bar is almost full, and I would really love for us to have some quality time together so this weekend I'm picking how we spend our time while mommy's at work.
Turns out synchronized frog catching was high on Brycen's list. They managed to catch a grand total of 2 frogs during the 4 hours they spent at the park...not exactly a great haul. But they did have some time together so that's what counts.
Melker had to go to work, Brycen thinks he heard him mutter "hallelujah" when the carpool pulled up.
Having rarely visited Oasis Springs during our life together Brycen decided to bring Lucas and Britta with him on a journey of discovery. Lucas found the gym and quickly decided he needed to work out in order to impress a too old Mika. I think he had rather lackluster results.
Lucas: What are you talking about *pants* I'm doing, ouch! Is it supposed to be this hard!?
Brycen is too old for anything other than picking flowers these days...He found some sage and daisies, so now we have more to offer a future botanist.
Britta had to take up the chisel and get those fossils and minerals out of the bedrock, I just hope she won't age up as hulk-woman.
Two tired heroes off to the bathrooms, one smelly and the other with a more pressing problem. It seems like an elder sim always has to go!
Britta had the option to practice flirting...glitching?
Yes she is. I think it's time for this mom to have a chat with her tween daughter about when it's all right to start thinking about boys.
Meanwhile, at the bar, Melker was asking Lucas about wohoo....
Melker: Sooooo....is it like fooling around? Because the watcher has said that's completely forbidden from now on.
Lucas: It's not as good as fooling around. Fooling around is forbidden, ergo it must be the better of the two. Wait? How do you know about fooling around???
To satisfy Melker's whims for expensive purchases, we are now the owners of a microscope. So far we have only been able to get the two plant slides to show up as paintings. Hopefully the microscope will stay, because it doesn't seem to have the same attraction as my beloved and much missed observatory.
Melker also wants to improve our landscaping- Sadly his efforts are rather puny and hap dash at the moment.
We spend a lot of time in front of the TV in true Aurora fashion. Brycen and me have had a very happy and fortunate life together. Three children who we both are good friends with, two lucrative careers, one complete aspiration and more kisses blown over a table than you can count. Life is short, even with youth potions, but we made the best of it while it lasted.
Britta: I love you daddy, don't die yet.
Yes Brycen, do stay with us a while longer. His age bar is now full and bubbly, we have been told he might go any day now and we are sure to miss him. But for now, we are enjoying family life.
