The Sacrifice

Round 3: October 2010 (Autumn)
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Will (57), Eva (56), Keisha (19) and Brian Robinson (8)

Narrated by Eva

A couple of months ago, we invited Trent Thomas and his family over for breakfast. Will wanted to give them the great news, that he was making Trent manager of his new bakery, Piece of Cake.

He'd be manager and have full creative freedom over what cakes, pies and other desserts are sold in the shop. Trent nor his family could hide their excitement. He had been asking for more responsibility and I'm glad Will took him up on his offer. He's been a loyal employee for many years.

Alyssa was even excited to hear that her daddy was going to work with cakes and pies all day. She said she'd love to be around all the chocolate and icing.

Trent's been manager of Piece of Cake for about a month and a half and business is great. Cakes and pies fly off the shelves and they can hardly keep up with restocking.

That morning was the first time I'd met the rest of Trent’s family. I met Trent years ago through Will and I know Camille because she and Keisha are close friends. But it was the first time I’d met Isabella and Alyssa and they are very nice.

Brian loved all the attention he was getting from the Thomases.

And he made fast friends with Alyssa. I don't know who enjoyed showing off their cartwheels and somersaults more.

There aren't many kids Brian's age at school, so he ends up playing with some of the younger kids like Angel Rodriguez, who's only 5.

Brian was nice to him and "let him win" at basketball, which is surprising because one, Brian’s not always the nicest kid and two, he’s very serious when it comes to sports. I think he was just being nice so he'd have someone smaller than he is to boss around.

Keisha is working at Piece of Cake with Trent, and occasionally works with Will at Tasty Treat. She was a little disappointed that Will didn't make her manager of the new store; after all, she is his daughter.

But Keisha's still young and needs to show she can be responsible. She spends most of her time blowing all of her money most weekends.

Or out club hopping with her boyfriend Ryan or the girls. I don't think she has any money saved at all.

I try to give her advice but her eyes just glaze over. She wants to be treated like an adult but doesn't want the responsibility that goes along with it.

We don't know where she gets her lack of motivation from. She's anxious to do so many things, get married, have babies, buy a home, but she never gets off her butt to do anything.

Keisha's hoping to be able to move into her own place sometime next year so she can have some privacy, but we'll see how that goes. Brian's room is right next to hers and I know it's hard to get some alone time with Ryan with your little brother just inches away.

That should be motivation enough for her to start saving but I guess she's got to really want it in order to do something about it.

Speaking of privacy, Will and I hardly ever have alone time. Our alone time together is first thing in the morning when we wake up or right before we fall asleep at night.

Will and I have been so focused on our careers lately that we are usually drained by the end of the night. I work long hours at the clinic cleaning minor head wounds and wiping runny noses. And I often stay late to do training and research in hopes of getting a promotion, so I usually don't get home until after 8:00 pm.

Our quality time is limited to the weekends where we try to have little mini dates at home.

Since the house is never empty, we usually just do little things for each other. Will usually surprises me with little gifts, such as flowers or chocolate.

And plenty of massages. Always something sweet and thoughtful.

I can't wait to become Chief of Staff so I can create my own hours and focus on my family.

Just a random pic:

Will and Keisha had wants to get a cat or a dog so I had Keisha adopt a cat and called her Nugget (I think it's a female, I can't remember LOL). I'm not a cat person in real life so I often ignore them in the game. They're really cute as kittens, though. I think that was the first and last time Keisha even looked at Nugget during this play session.

Notes:
-Piece of Cake Bakery sells premade cakes and pies made by Trent and Will (mostly Trent). Tasty Treat (which I showed in their last update) is a restaurant that serves only desserts. I had them both combined a while ago but EA didn't think we'd like to sell stuff and run a restaurant on the same lot. It didn't work the way I wanted it so I split the businesses.
-I used the Parts posing box at MTS2 that's "all the rage" now to pose Will and Eva in their family portrait. They're using 1 pose box and then I just changed their legs so they'd be sitting.
-I had all the pictures taken for this update but I had it on hold for a while because I needed more shots that required posing and the right furniture. Like the shot of Eva in the clinic and Keisha laying on the bed.