Magick Family: Take 2...or 4? How about 8 and 3 Grandbabies!

 Victoria helped Olivia with the twins.  She loves her nephews.  I teased her, a little, while Olivia was pregnant that she was jealous.  She's always been such a great help with the babies, with her younger siblings and her nephews now, I know that she'll be a great mom when the time comes.   We ended up building a BIG nursery between the buildings of the house so that the babies were on the main level and in one place, not spread out all over like they were.   Olivia, by the way, is a terrific Mother.  Ian and Bentley are such great babies, still can't believe I'm a GRANDMOTHER.... 

Veronica, Gabby and poor lil ghostly Hannah spent their first year hand in hand with their nephews... and Tobias never left, ever.  He was always around and we stole many moments together.   Thomaz, Tobias' brother came to live with us, and he even asked me to marry him... me accepting... but we were never intimate... we never so much as kissed!  I would have these amazing dreams where I was with Tobias, and next thing I knew, I was pregnant.... again.... 

The nursery was huge!  Lots of room, five cribs, soon to be....  more...

See, Victoria didn't come home with a stomach virus like we ... hoped, but rather the 9 month flu.  Yep, I was going to be a Grandma again, and Tobias was a wisp of a Grandfather....

I tried to tell Tobias to move on but he just didn't... couldn't... he didn't want to leave his family, and frankly, I didn't really want him to leave, but if I was ever going to move on, I needed him to.  I begged him one night, and he said he wouldn't.  He just stayed with the babies, taking care of them, loving them, letting them know he was there.

Soon enough the triplets and Olivia's twin boys turned the big ONE with a huge joint birthday party!  Course, their Tobias' and Thomaz' family all came.  It's always nice to catch up with them!  Some friends game too.

And indeed, I was pregnant again.  It seems like all I am is a baby making machine!  I don't mind though, I love my kids, and as long as I have the money to support them, I'm fine.

Ian and Bentley turned into handsome little boys....

Hannah, Gabby and Veronica did also... well, beautiful little girls.!

Victoria was getting big as a house like I was...

I got to the point where I just couldn't stand clothes on my body, I don't know why, I just couldn't.  So when I went into labor, I was just hanging out by myself in my bra and underwear, how embarrassing!!

But I welcomed a ghostly little boy into our family, Hayden. 

We all worked together taking care of our extensive garden!  We had our own tree orchard in addition to our amazing garden.

Victoria came home from the theater one day, she was doing an extra part in some crazy production and she said she thought she was in labor.  All of a sudden, she started to grab her belly and scream in pain.  I was like, "Oh yeah, you are most definitely in labor Tori," and then I helped her labor and ...

She gave birth to a beautiful little girl, and named her Tessa.

The nursery now housed seven cribs.  Tessa's and Hayden's crib sat on the wall opposite the triplets cribs.

We all worked hard at teaching all the babies what they needed to know.  Walking, talking, potty training...  they loved to play on the xylophones and peg boxes...

Uncle Thomaz even got into the action, but I just couldn't get Tobias out of my head, or my heart.  How can you move on from  your true love?  I heard one day that you could bring someone back from the dead if you made ambrosia.  I had never even heard of it before.  So I found a copy, dusty and old, at the book store and I read it.  Then I went and got the ingredients, and let me tell you, getting a death fish isn't easy!! 

And then I made it....

And when I was done, I put it out on the counter, and could only HOPE he picked it up....  and blew out a sigh of relief when he did....

He sat down at the table and began to eat it...

And then something strange happened....  he stood up and started to sparkle..... 

And then.......

HE WAS BACK!!  And dancing with Joy!! 

And he started to laugh!

First thing he did was sneak up and scare his brother....

And then he came and found me.... 

and kissed the HELL out of me...

The girls finished their teenage years with high honors in school (pretty amazing for teenage mothers!  But considering I did it also!  Guess they are just a chip off the old block!) .... 

And my boys turned into teenagers .... 

Chapter 1: Magick Family Introduction

(I have been sick, so I've been trying to stay in one spot during the day, been in a lot of pain.... so between taking care of the kids, laying down and cuddling now and then, I've been playing SIMS... course this game has been going on for a couple of months now....  Just an FYI....... I have a mod in my SIMS that allows me more then 8 toons in a house, it also allows for teenage pregnancy and you don't always get pregnant, even if you TRY for a baby ....... and you can get pregnant even if you aren't trying for a baby ......  Just like real life, you can have fertility issues, or you can be super fertile, or your condom can break... LOL.... oh, it also allows teens to move out on their own, also...  as in the case with how this chapter ends, when I'm not controlling a toon, they are more then free to go off and sleep with ... say.... their ghost husband and get pregnant all by themselves!)

Pagan Celtic was a lonely child.   Her parents died when she was a baby.  A freak plane crash which in a settlement, left her with a big settlement.  Her grandparents raised her, and after they both died, at 17 years old, she was faced with living on her own.  She sold her grandparents house, and moved to a little town named Twin Brooks, where she got a house of her own, and was excited to meet new friends and finish high school.  She had a great start, meeting new people and was happy to find out that she was living next door to 18 year old Tobias Magick and his 17 year old brother Thomaz Magick, who lived with their grandparents, parents and two younger sisters ...  surely she'd be good friends with them!  She hit it off with both of them, but her and Tobias had a little more of a romantic connection.  So one morning, she peed on a stick, alone in her bathroom, in her empty house, and when two lines pop'd up pink and bright, she broke into tears.  She was an honor roll student and wanted to keep it that way.  She never missed a day of school, luckily she had her babies in a homebirth on a Friday night, and she went right back to school Monday morning.  She was determined!!  Determined and deeply in love with her twin baby girls, Olivia and Victoria.  They were different as night and day, one with darker red hair, one with reddish brown, and both with their Daddy's bright blue eyes.  It was just her and the girls against the world for awhile, and eventually Tobias started staying at her place every night, and eventually he just ended up moving in.  He was great with the babies and he made her feel like she was a princess.  He doted on her, and couldn't keep his hands off her.  So when the girls were  three, and she was just about to turn twenty-one, and she had another moment in the bathroom peeing on a stick, this time NOT in an empty house, all alone, and it came up bright and pink, she squealed.  She ran out and told Tobias and he got very excited.  Luke was born. They moved their little house to a bigger lot on the other side of his parents house, and expanded it, and expanded it and expanded it for their growing family. 

BEFORE

AFTER (from a 1 bedroom to a 10 + bedroom, 3 car garage + 1 space outside, expansive garden and orchard, pond, 2 lvl basement (so far), and every toy a child could want!)

Tobias proposed to her, and they had a quite little ceremony, and then a honeymoon in Egypt where she found the love of photography, AND got cursed by a Mummy which almost killed her!  Luckily the Sphinx cured her, by blessing her, and she survived, and officially became Pagen Magick.  

 Mummies kept attacking her and knocking her out.......  it was not a fun night trying to save herself......

When it happened again, her secret little stick peeing, less then a year later, she was scared about how she could handle 4 little kids, it but over joyed all at the same time.  Soon Liam joined their family.   By now she was a famous sculptor and he was a very good inventor.  They both enjoyed gardening and he loved fishing.   They would go catch fish and stock their pond in their yard with the fish they caught all over.  The girls thrived, honor roll all the way when they got into school.   Thomaz was having a blast traveling and sending postcards from Egypt, China, and France.  And just as the Girls celebrated their teenage birthday....

There is Daddy behind them, in the black, Grandpa in the red, and in the 2nd picture Mom is next to Dad....  Olivia is the one on the left, and Victoria is on the right ... they are about to blow out their birthday candles and become teenagers!

 Luke had grown into a fine little boy and started school, and Liam into a healthy rambunctious toddler, and they started talking ... just talking, about MAYBE having one more baby ....  both got lost trying to advance their careers a little before diving into that pool of fertility, when the worst thing that could ever happen did.   Tobias, while he was inventing, ended up catching his clothes on fire with his blow torch and even though this had happened before, and Pagen had always seemed to be nearby enough to grab the fire extinguisher, she was taking an ice sculptor to the restaurant ... the babysitter called the fire department, and unfortunately, they got there and the damage was already done, Tobias was lost.  The love of her life was gone in a moment.  The whole family mourned, and Thomaz immediately moved in to help out with everything.  He found he enjoyed inventing like his brother and continued his brother's legacy there.  Since they had buried Tobias on the land, they found him wondering around the house in ghost form now and then, and one night, while Pagen was exceptionally distraught and missing him, he found her in bed and joined her.  It seemed like a dream.  But she quickly found out it wasn't when she ended up pregnant with triplets. Then imagine her surprise when her now, 16 year old daughter, who had just started dating a boy who had been dating someone else and all the drama that came with that, found out SHE was pregnant!!

Dad just hangs out all GHOSTLY in the house... does whatever he wants...

 Shortly after Dad died, Tobias & Thomaz's Grandmother died also, (the kids Great Grandma) ... and was buried in the graveyard.  Being lonely.... she found herself wanting a lot of companionship she found herself ordering a SIMBOT....  figured at the very least, he could help her out with household chores, like the gardening and just being extra hands.  She found herself having her very own Bicentennial Man ...  he came pre-named, Luke Magick, which she thought was funny, and bizarre, because now there are two Lukes in the family. 

If her pregnancy hadn't been surprise enough, if she wanted more of a surprise, when she gave birth.... one of the triplets was a GHOST!

(see the orange transparent baby in the crib furthest to the left?  She is the ghost!  She is orange like her Dad cuz he died by fire) 

Hannah, Veronica and Gabby (left to right)  Momma is the 2nd pic

Then the day after Pagen had the triplet girls, Olivia surprised everyone by having TWIN BOYS!!!!  (absolutely no fertility treatments here people!  Damn teenage condom breakage!)

Ian and Bentley in the cribs and Momma working on her computer

And now.... as we leave our family.....  Victoria took a quick trip to France where she met a boy, he was her first... now she's come home and she's been running to the bathroom an awful lot!!  Did she come home with some weird sickness???  Or did she bring home more then just wine and souvenirs?

And after another rendezvous with her dead husband, Pagen is wondering if she could ... yet again, be pregnant.  Which causes a hitch in her plans, her husband, the love of her life, is dead and even though they seem to be able to steal a few moments here and there, Thomaz has really shown that he loves her also, and has proposed, and she accepted!!  She's not sure why she accepted, her and Thomaz haven't had any romantic feelings for each other, they haven't even kissed.  Does she take her husband's ashes to the Scientists?  Learn to make Ambrosia?  Or does she let him go....  maybe take him to the graveyard, and move on with his brother?  And how is she going to explain it if another one of the babies comes out....... gasp....  SEE THROUGH!?!?!

On a side note, for those of you who play, I noticed something super cool ....  when you have multiple babies, you no longer labor ONE and the rest pop out on the floor, now you labor ALL of them....  she labored one, put it in a bed, labored a very short time for the next, etc ...   I just thought it was a lot better then the babies just showing up on the floor.  Don't know if it's something to do with my mod or something, but ... YAY! 

Family trees.... first Tobias and Thomaz's family ... 

And then Pegan's .... er... Olivia's