Cooprider House Round 1

The Cooprider House Round 1
Failing, Shrink Visits, n Future Wives?

Hi!! I'm Layce Cooprider! That's me in the purple with my Sister Siba's daughter and her kids. Siba and I talked Celeste into moving to Prosperity Isle so we could enjoy our retirement on the beach. We'd planned to help Celeste and her husband Gary raise their kids in our golden years. Unfortunately shortly after arriving here, Gary perished when a swarm of flies attacked him out of no where. Siba and I decided that we would have to end our retirement to help out Celeste more.

The good news is, we are still right on the beach, and we do try to spend quality time together relaxing, and sunbathing. The girls like to build sandcastles, and we can always try to find things to sell in the sand.

Shortly after we got here a welcome wagon arrived. Aimee and Abigail are sisters and live right next door to us. Patrice lives down the street with her kids.
This nice lady Gina Simmers also stopped by to visit...Risto said she kept telling him that she'd love to be part of his future someday...Weird Lady!

Author's Note: This is Gina aka FairyDavanaSim aka KountryAngel. You can read her blog here.

Our guests decided to go fishing with Michaell. Celeste tried to talk to this guy named Howie, but he wanted to talk about kissing, and Celeste just didn't think he was cute enough to be talking about that with. For a grown woman she sure can be silly! Who cares what a man looks like it's all about what's in his bank! Of course I might be partial to rich guys since I'd really like to go back to enjoying my retirement..but ahh well..Siba is a Military Recruit and I'm a Lab Assistant. Not the greatest jobs, but hey what can ya expect when you have to visit the ladies room every five minutes!

Patrice from down the street tried to help out a few times with Kricket while she was still a toddler since Celeste was exhausted trying to make it in the game design field. Patrice would just come over without us bothering her and start helping in the middle of the night.
Teaching Kricket her toddler stuffs sure was hard I'll tell ya! I managed to get some of that special baby stuff that makes them learn quicker, but I swear between my old bladder, her baby bladder, and us getting tired..it took nigh on forever! But somehow between everybody in the house and that special bottle stuffs we did manage to get Kricket her toddlers skills so she can do better growing up.
Which is prolly a good thing since both Risto and Michaell darn near failed outta school...Celeste took that real hard. Risto even lost his job as a Spelunker!! We'd been making sure they got to school but the kids was always complaining bout not having any fun. So we didn't force them to do their homework. It was always on the list of things to teach them, but well me n Siba are old darn it!! These are suppose to be our golden years..hrmph...
Celeste sorta went nuts when Risto got his F, got fired, and Michaell came home with a D. She talked about seeing a doctor, but since she was sitting on the front lawn, and clucking like a chicken I highly doubt she ever got around to it. Sides..we can't really afford them kinda bills ya know? Siba made it a point to sit down with each of the kids Friday night and teach them how to do their homework. Hopefully this will get them on the right track again.
Risto went downtown to try and cheer himself up and he said he met ANOTHER strange lady that was talking to him about wanting to be in his future...some lady named Wen. He said she seemed very nice too.

Author's Note: ASimWen strikes again!! She's stalking my prosperity! Every time I send someone to a community lot there she is!! You can read her fabulous blog here.
Well Kricket managed to grow up good, and for a while her mom tried making toys. When she found Kricket fell for her fake pet brick though, and found her trying to teach it tricks in the kitchen, she said enough was enough and gave up that idea.

Author's Note: Kricket kept placing the brick in front of the frig and I almost lost the kids to starvation before I realized why no one was helping themselves to food. So we sold the brick and the toy station so as to not have a nasty visit from the social worker on top of everything else.


Near the end of the week Michaell grew up. Somehow inspite of bad grades, and all the craziness around here she managed to grow up well. She said she wants to be rich when she grows up. I guess I can understand that.

Michaell Cooprider
Aspiration: Fortune
LTW: Hall of Famer

Course the family is doing a lot better now. We have an appointment all set up with the local headmaster of a private school for this coming Monday with luck he'll overlook the kids recent grades. Celeste also said as a thank you to Siba and me that she's taking the 3 of us on a vacation to the Far East next Friday. Celeste said she'd been saving for it all week. I can't wait!! I've heard such fun things. Siba is thrilled because she'd mentioned in passing she wanted to go to Celeste and is thrilled Celeste picked up on her hints. Course...She thinks that Celeste did it just so she can escape the kids and find a new husband. Can't say as I blame Celeste, kinda hard to meet a good man with these kids around. She'll scare off all the good ones!! Best to hook him in first and then let him know bout the kids! Maybe Siba and I will get to enjoy our golden years yet! Takemizu Village here we come!!
Points this round: -2, 1 for Celeste's shrink visit. She really was doing well until the kids both came home with failing grades. Unfortunately I found it really hard to keep the kids happy with them being in public school. Hopefully this will get fixed next round. -1 for Risto getting fired from his job due to poor school performance.

Family Worth at the End of the Round: $36,101

Just to prove he IS roaming around Prosperity Isle..I give you..The ONE...The ONLY....

Howie Busto!!