The unannounced break is over and the Goodmoney Patriarchy is back!

Woo! Finally, Wish. This legacy is so stop-start it’s embarrassing!

Well, we’re back to ‘start’ now, so let’s get going! Generation Seven in the Goodmoney Patriarchy, and it’s got to the stage of immortalising our family members in ice!

"Does this pose make my bum look evil?"

That’s Sherrie, being sculpted by Nathan!

Yay! I love sculptures. They’re so…befitting the dignity of the Goodmoney lineage.

Heh, you and you ‘befittings’ and your ‘dignities’ – Adam, you really are the original proud founder.

Well, you’re still a relative newcomer, Nathan. But when you’ve been following for such a long time as we have, it does make you sort of proud.

And do you have any idea of how much pressure that puts on us ‘newcomers’. Oh the stress. Oh the effort.

That must be the Neurotic trait. Gotta love that in an Alpha-male. In fact, a lot of you have had your little tragic flaws, haven’t you? I mean…Justin was a coward-

Don’t use italics to make it any more obvious. I’m scared what people might think!

Tobias was childish.

You’re so mean. Waaaaa.

Oli was mad…

Ooo – is that a llama?

I was okay though..

Well, you did fall in love with a psychopath…

Shush!

So, it really just adds to the character of the family. Music is something new for the Goodmonies to develop, mind, and with Tina’s Virtuoso trait, that might just happen. In the meantime though, Nathan is playing to crowded venues using his own considerable piano skill.

"Hmm...hellooooo? Where is everybody....?"

Oh, did I say crowded? I meant empty.

Ouch. That was cold. I’m sure the bartender must have enjoyed it.

He was probably bored too, if you ask me. Nobody to serve drinks to, was there?

So the moral of this little fable is to pick your location, basically.

"They'll never find me here..."

…Isn’t that right, Danny?

…Eheheh.

Still, it hasn’t stopped career progress, with your lifetime wish progress inching over the halfway point and promotions trickling in.

You’d better get 2 points for lifetime happiness like the rest of us, though. Don’t want to break a generation-long family tradition, do we?

See what I mean?! PRESSURE! 

Take it easy, guys. Plenty of time yet.

Sherrie: "Good, it's happened. Show her the xylophone. Mwahaha."

I like Sherrie. The evil laughter grows on you.

Well, I’ll be honest and say it was that that got me head over heels in the first place…

N’aww, how sweet.

"The kids are in bed and Dad's looking after them.........shall we?" "Mwahahaha....that's a yes, by the way." "SWEET!"

I take it that that, too, was a product of the evil laugh.

*Shifty eyes*

I can’t believe after all the children-stress you’ve been having recently you’re risking another one!

Nah – big families have been amiss for a while in the legacy. We need a few children to nail some more LTWs.

All about the points with you guys, isn’t it?

Well, we do want lots of nice points to be remembered by!

Well, let’s see how we go, shall we? One day, in the kitchen, Nathan gave up the ghost. And by ‘gave up’, I mean ‘became’.

"Ah, already? *Sigh* Fiiiine"

Dad, you cretin! Now I have to manage by myself!!!

It was hardly a conscious choice, Danny.  

"Well, if you insist, Mr Reaper."

Gonna miss you around the house, Dad.

Think we all will. You did well, Nathan, especially without a wife by your side to make it easier. 

Praise indeed from our founder. Nathan got four points, of course. Sculpture (1), LTW (1) and LTH (2). He will be missed. Nevertheless, life has to go on, despite omnipresent mourning moodlets, though, so Danny started teaching Tina the art of walking.

"One step at a time, little one. Literally."

Because while she could grow to be an excellent musician, it would be a hollow victory if she can’t walk, talk or use the loo.

The guy’s good at multitasking, I’ll give him that. Far better than hiding, anyway.

"?!"

Ha, he really needs to learn to hide in an actual bush, and not the pavement.

I don’t know what you mean…that’s just an empty photo with a bush to the left of the car. What’s Danny got to do with anything? 

*Facepalm*

*Ahem* Anyway,  just because Sherrie is temporarily away from the workplace, she’s not stopped developing her skillset – she needs to know exactly what she’s going to say to her minions.

"Bow before me, my loyal followers. We shall overwhelm this planet with our forces and the world will be ours!!!"

Time well spent, most certainly, when she can snatch a break from parenting.

"Well, you're my first minion, anyway, Tina...c'mon, walk to me!"

Bit down to earth for a woman with evil on her mind, don’t you think?

Meh, she’s my wife. The Goodmoney attitude is having a positive influence on her at home. She leaves the Evil at work.

Good for her!

Makes a nice change from the last Evil we had in the family. Melissa really was a witch.

Really?! Where was her broomstick?

It’s  figure of speech, Oliver. How you survived as Alpha-male all that time beats me. In the meantime, here comes Atticus. Generation eight is growing up!

"Wheee!"

Time to step up the teaching…

Ugh, tell me about it. I don’t even know where to begin…

You want some advice? Potty train early. Trust me on this.

Wise words from Adam, there. Tina is already specialising – Xylophone music echoes through the house.

Sherrie: "And now for Tina's rendition of Simovitch's 67th Symphony...in F."

 It’s quite exciting to have a musician in the family!

I quite agree. It b-

-befits the designation of our noble blah blah blah. Say something different for a change. 

Oi, less of that childish stuff, you young’un.

A young’un who’s long died of old age?

Shush!

…Right. Of course, there’s more than just our musical child to consider –  we have one and a half more to worry about!

"Argh...what the heck have I signed up for...."

The house is actually going to be vaguely full for a while. As if. Poor parents need to relax…

"Pfff, when did we decide to be parent, Sherrie?" "Since you became Alpha-male?" "Oh...right."

I wonder if somebody will yet roll the big family LTW. Then we’ll be in for a right laugh!

"Okay, I'm feeding you, I'm feeding you!"

I hope the investigator profession doesn’t call a ‘bring your child to work day’ – I think it might be difficult to maintain cover with three noisy, hungry babies…

True enough……wait, three?!

"Here's our third! Lucky us!"

Ah yes, of course. Forgot that slide was coming. Meet our next hope for the future – Joshua R Goodmoney. A potential Alpha-male who is Good and Hates the Outdoors. A candidate to continue the Goodmoney lineage. Meanwhile, the skilling and training continues:

Sherrie: "I think I'll have to scale back my ambitions. Taking over the world must be difficult if I can't manage three kids." Danny: "Oh trust me, the world is nothing to three kids, darling."

Oh the joy of parenting.

Perhaps it’s almost excusable that they all forgot to pay the bills…

What?!

"Hmm, I think..."

Oh don’t you dare. Don’t. You. Dare.

"That one!"

 …And she dared. 

That was Ally’s sculpture. How mortifying. All the more so because it cost us a point.

Ugh. Ah well, it’s done now.

In the meantime, Sherrie prepares to return to work…

"Let the world takeover commence...."

Brace yourselves, Sims of the world. That’s it for now! Until next time, readers!

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