Pick'N'Mix Mods for The Sims 2

14 - Routines

After the second hectic week, they'd fallen into a routine. If they'd spent the night in a populated area, they'd wake early, join the morning rush and head in a random direction, then before lunch, they'd seek out somewhere to stop for the day. However, if they'd spent the night in an isolated spot, they'd lie-in, have brunch, spend the early afternoon as they wished, and then join the late afternoon / early evening traffic and move on. Occasionally, they'd spend two or three nights at the same place, mainly weekends when they would seek out some isolated forest glade on the Friday.

They shared the cooking, unless bacon was involved, when all three girls left it to Deano as they agreed that a) he crisped it up the best and b) it tasted better when stolen from his pan!

Cleaning the bus involved Lottie and Ona giggling around on the floor under the seats, supposedly chasing dust-bunnies with an old hand-brush and cut-down box, but mainly collecting dirt on their clothes.

Cleaning was always followed by the washing, both of little girls and clothes. Deano had offered to help with the clothes, but one look from Sophia-Grace told him she had very strong views on his involvement with her underwear, so his contribution was limited to stealing the washing powder, heating the water, and stringing the drying line.

Everyday Sophia-Grace would sit with Lottie and Ona and show them something in her precious books. Or they'd all go for a walk together, looking at the flowers, lifting stones to seek out weird bugs, watching the clouds and weather change, climbing over rocks, or just lying by a stream listening to the birds and insects. Deano showed them how to dam streams to divert water along old dry channels, using branches to move bigger rocks, and looping rope around trees to pull big branches out of the way so they could squeeze into gaps between rocks to find out what was hidden there.

In the evenings, when the sleepy giggles of Ona and Lottie had finally subsided, Deano and Sophia-Grace would sit in companiable silence, she reading or sewing one of the many rips in the clothes of Lottie or Ona, or, as she more often referred to them now as "the children", he, as she called it, 'fiddling' with something - usually wood. Currently he was carving a penguin to join the expanding menagerie that had escaped from the wildlife park.

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