#aerabella

[jorijam]

careful! she's a weapon

[theglowworm2008]

It never fails...

Go to take a bath/shower and the toddler drops a stink bomb.. while still fully dressed. Thanks for the poop particles in the air mingling with the smell of shampoo, Aerabella! 

[lvnaplena]

DATE : 8 September 1979

Exhaustion makes his feet heavy as he trudges up the walkway.  Knuckles wrap lightly on the wood of the door before being tucked up under his armpits to wait for an answer.  His presence is UNANNOUNCED but perhaps not entirely UNEXPECTED.

His TRANSFORMATIONS are leaps and bounds easier than they ever used to be –––––– Lily and the Marauders do their best to make sure of it, but heightened agitation going into it this month hadn’t helped matters.  There’s a GASH across the back of his right shoulder blade that he thinks ought to be inspected by someone with a deeper medical knowledge than he or his friends possess.

His chin is dipped down toward his chest when the door opens but his gaze flicks up.  Lips twitch in greeting but he doesn’t quite manage a smile.

❝ Hullo –––––––– mind if I come in ? ❞

@aerabella !!

[theglowworm2008]

Adulting with children is hard.

Sometimes, if Mila was really lucky, she could get Aerabella to watch a few cartoons after her nap time. It gave her tired mama the much-needed opportunity to power nap and survive the rest of the afternoon. 

[theglowworm2008]

Mila is in dire need of an income.

Mila is not in any position, yet, to afford sending Aerabella to daycare. With all of their funds dumped into this place, as well as moving expenses, Mila is desperate to figure out an income situation despite this set-back. 

Thanks to the Life Decider mod, Mila seems to have had a past interest in writing, leading her to begin Freelancing from home. It’s nothing special; just some application edits, report writing and some occasional phone calls, but it gives her some money to work with until she figures out something more sustainable. 

They might be eating grilled cheese for years, but Mila is going to make this work!

[theglowworm2008]

Mila spends what little energy she has gained playing with Aerabella.

[theglowworm2008]

This is Mila and her daughter, Aerabella.

Fresh out of high school, Mila had moved out of her parent’s home in Oasis Springs to a nice condo just outside of town. It was an easy commute to the university out there where she and her roommate were enrolled. However, one fun night out led to an accidental pregnancy and, although the situation was not ideal, Mila was young and naive enough to find optimism in the situation, even without the father involved. Determined to make the best of this choice, Mila continued to go to her classes, all the while battling with her parents over, what they believed, to be an irrational decision in keeping the baby. It was stressful and pregnancy symptoms were a real kick in the pants, but things seemed to be going well enough, all things considered. 

It wasn’t until she gave birth and realized how difficult juggling school, baby and a part time job was that she knew... something would have to give. 

Asking for her parents to help was out; Mila was stubborn and the idea of them helping care for her and her daughter after all the time they spent trying to push her to not keep Aerabella... it just wasn’t an option. So, Mila dropped out of college and moved out to San Myshuno, hoping to make this new life work on her own. The apartment she was able to afford was tiny, her roommates were loud and Mila swore she heard mice squeaking around in the walls, but she was here, in a concrete jungle of opportunity, to make a life for her and her daughter. 

Mila would begin by mastering the stove... 

*Note* I finally worked out all the kinks and have quite a few roommates living in the building I put together. It’s a lot of fun watching them running around and actually seeing what they’re up to. I plan to avoid all cheating, though I’m not opposed to using mods to get loans if necessary. I plan to bring this household into the University expansion pack when I can afford to buy it and, although this gameplay won’t be story-heavy per-say, it will progress throughout their life in a way that it will have a story-feel to it. As of right now, I don’t plan to use any poses, so all you see will come from in game. I just want this to stay simple. As most of you know, my life is way too busy for anything too complicated and I just really want to enjoy what I’m doing with this family. 

[theglowworm2008]

Mila: *Mumbling softly*

Aerabella: “Mommy...mommy.. Mommy!”

Mila: “-what, Aera? What do y- Ugh, what is that smell?!”

Aerabella: “Towet ew, mommy. Mess!”

Mila: “What..? ...oh, God, Aerabella, were you messing around in the toilet?”

And then there were those days where Aerabella just wasn’t as supportive of Mila’s attention being elsewhere. Independent toddlers have a knack for trouble, it seems, when they’re bored..