Ah, I love how easy it is to do custom family photos on the wall in this game! 🤩 #Paralives

Childhood in the summertime when your dads are best friends and you live next door to each other. 🥰 #Paralives *fireflies not included (I drew them on, lol!)

Also, I fixed Jason & Sofia's bedroom life in my game! #Paralives It was kind of as I expected, that they had never rolled the "get intimate for the first time" card. But I could never get that card to come up for them until the storyteller gave me a "romantic interest" card one night.

What I'm wishing for in #Paralives more than anything else in this early access period is for them to be able to multi-task a little during conversations. To talk in situations other than just standing face-to-face. (I know the together bar will keep running, but you don't see them talking.)

Spring came for my pixel babies, but warmth in Brindleton Bay will take a few weeks longer. #sims4 #showusyoursims

Side view:

Sofia and Jason's girls aged up to childhood in my game, and they are showing a very nice blend of facial genetics between them. One has mom's eyes and dad's nose, while the other has dad's eyes and mom's nose. Before now, I assumed this game only made clones of one parent or the other. #Paralives

Not even waiting for all this water to fill! Already floating. 😁

Ten years later, OMG. 😵‍💫 It’s still not even perfectly level, but it’s close enough and I am done and I don’t care. Get me on my floaty!!!!

The kind of rocky sun-baked hard clay bullshit I’m working with here! But I really really want a pool. Motivation works, I guess. 😆

Real life “level terrain to height” tools. Next up: real life “build pool” tools. 😎 #nonsims But it would be so much easier in sims!!! Like, one click easier, lol!

She ate sand! 🤣 #Paralives

Last week in Michigan I was in full jeans and a hoodie on the beach because the air and water temps were both 60°. Home this week and it’s 102° and my pool water is 90°! I dumped a bucket of ice in it and it only dropped to 89°. 😭😫🤣 Take me back! I wanna be that cold again!

Hike to Arch Rock through this enchanted forest speckled with yellow wildflowers. Then the breathtaking view from 146 feet above Lake Huron. This was my favorite part of Mackinac Island… because there are no horses allowed on this trail, lol! (The smell, you guys! 💩) #hiking #MackinacIsland

We are close enough to Canada that poutine is on the menu! 🇨🇦 Yes, we are just eating and eating on this trip like calories don’t exist and money is infinite. Please don’t tell me those things are untrue. My credit card statement will do the job just fine next month. 😆

It’s pop. 😁 #Michigan

I forgot that I did get a picture of the crazy raccoons getting into the neighbor’s trash! We knew not to leave any out because my sister got the raccoons at her site first. 🤣

Actually camping aesthetic includes the kid clutter and a basket of half-eaten snacks. Not pictured: the laundry hamper under the table and toys I just picked up. I promise it didn’t look this tidy fifteen minutes ago. 🤪 It’s so easy to mess up a small space fast.

Morning view from my bedroom window this week. 🌳 Not pictured: all the crazy raccoons and ticks! 😱

Corrected: Michigan sky is the best sky! 🤩

Ohio sky is the best sky. 🤩

She really wants him to wake up. She's gonna break her eyeball sockets trying to death stare him into waking up! 😂🤣😂 (She is pregnant and hungry, for context, and he promised her dinner out.) #sims4 #showusyoursims

We went shopping in Paramaker for a new dress. We put on makeup. We put on high heels. We paid the babysitter. And we went out with our handsome hubby on a date!... But, she's too tired to enjoy it. OMG #momlife is too real in this game! #Paralives

Isabelle is (thankfully!) a toddler now, but before she aged up, I wrote this episode called "floor baby". Because all there was to do with a para baby was to put her on the floor. 😂 pixeldistractions.tumblr.com/post/8185150...

She's a toddler! Finally! (I have my lifespan on extra long, and that was a struggle!) Five minutes in, and it's already a hundred times more interesting than the baby stage! Maybe I don't know how annoyed I'm about to be by it? 😆 #Paralives

Remember this water bill??? It got worse in the second week! 😭😭😭 Even crazier thing, I was rotating households a lot in that week, so I barely even played this household. How did they use more water??? This has to be a huge bug. #Paralives

Please excuse me while I obsess over this 3D long grass! The baby is cute, too, I guess. 😆 #Paralives

They didn't program anything for him to actually do during her labor, but at least he should wake up and look concerned or something. My first para-baby, Isabelle is here! I never did figure out what in-game object to use to dress her. In the end, I used the "editcharacter" cheat. 😂 #Paralives

Whoa, that water bill! Is this normal? Or is there a data center in this town using up all the water and running up the rates??? 😱 It's just two paras and a baby, having a normal amount of showers and stuff. In fact, I rarely even remember to make them flush the toilets, lol! #Paralives

Don’t just touch grass, lie down in a mountain meadow while a brisk breeze blows in your hair, and sun yourself like a happy cat. But, like, check for ticks after! 🙃 #VirginiaStateParks #SkyMeadowsStatePark