Month: March 2019

This has nothing to do with the Sims but I just finished it, so here. It was an incredible portrait to study. Instagram post with details : https://www.instagram.com/p/BvVfqGAFgEw/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=1pnpaogpdwt9f

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The blog is getting sad and it’s NOT QUITE DONE YET (one more funeral post + the game then tried to break my heart), so have this intermission.

Naomi and her mother when they were trying to find their style.

Last Farewells to Gram

It’s the day of her funeral and Mom made sure we would send her off properly, with color and flowers, just like she would have wanted, just as she lived.

Mom is too shaken up to give the eulogy, so I step up to the altar for her. And I speak about Gram, about how important she was to me, to Noland and Miranda, to mom, to my grandmothers, including grandma Justine, who she adopted as her own daughter. 

I remind everybody how she selflessly raised not only her own children but her two youngest sisters, on her own, when great-great-grandmother Ariana died.

The people who knew her best came today, including Mom’s childhood friends Marie, and Charlotte and Shanna, with their youngest kid. And some people in the back, two strange women I don’t recognize and who look incredibly snob. But Mom says they belong here.

Empty

The house feels quiet and just awfully wrong now. This first night I sleep in the bed that was mine again, it still feels like Gram is right there.

The dirty clothes pile up. Every day I make a point to make it to the shower, because the temptation is strong to just stay under the blankets.

The Restaurant

It’s a family outing! Gram, my parents, my siblings and I all meet up at the newest restaurant in Oasis Springs, already decorated for the upcoming Romance Day. It shows off an impressive menu, including quite a few dishes from Selvadorada that only mom and I dare touch.

The food is pretty good, the moment is amazing, and to Mom’s surprise and delight, we run into her friend Marie and her youngest kid, who’s about the twins’ age. She looks much nicer than the only one of Charlotte and Shanna’s kids I know, whatever her name is.