Montgomery Collaborative Legacy

The family has been just as busy and productive as always…I was recently promoted to Bed Pan Cleaner. Great news right? The only downside is that with working all the time, I’ve been unable to focus on my cooking.

Promotions have actually been a frequent occurrence around the house lately. Dad has been promoted to Division Manager and has to hold meetings at the office.

Charlie must have done something very impressive on his first day as a snitch because at the end of the day, his boss went on and on about how impressed he was with Charlie before promoting him to Desk Jockey.

Mom’s recent promotion was quite possibly the strangest…There was an explosion in the lab leaving my mother completely scorched from head to toe. Aside from her under garments, there wasn’t a stitch of clothing left on her, but due to her dedication and level-headedness, the company promoted her to Aquatic Ecosystem Tweaker. Personally, I think they just promoted her so she wouldn’t quit due to the unsafe working conditions.

Mom didn’t seem to mind though…She went behind the science facility after work and started fishing in the pond located directly behind it despite her charred appearance. She had heard a rumor that a few scientist had stocked the pond with something they called a Robot Fish – whatever that meant – and she was eager to bring one home to show us.

I also received some very exciting news, I’m pregnant with my very first baby. Charlie and I had talked long and hard about having children after our wedding. He wants a large family and although I would prefer to only have one or two, I caved and agreed to have as many as he wanted.

I spent a majority of my pregnancy doing three things. In the mornings, I would tend to the family’s garden since Mom was off to work and one day, it would be my responsibility to keep the garden alive. Around lunch, I would head inside to make myself something to eat and then spend the rest of the afternoon watching the cooking channel trying to learn as many new recipes as I could while I was on maternity leave.

In the evening when Charlie would get off of work, we would spend time together playing a few games of chess, trying to outsmart each other. With the upcoming baby, the house was undergoing some minor renovations.

The months passed and before I even realized it, I was in my third trimester. My baby was scheduled to arrive anytime now and as I carried my bowl of cereal to the table, I wondered if I would ever be able to see my feet again.

The great thing about Charlie and this pregnancy is that he fusses over me each and every chance that he gets. He has read every pregnancy book that the local library has to offer, and spends hours on end talking about all the things he will soon be able to teach our son/daughter.

Later that very night, I went into labor…Charlie and I were just about to play a quick chess match before bed when the contractions hit. The pain was nearly to much to bare.

As prepared as Charlie believed he was for this day, he completely freaked out when the time came.

I had to get to a hospital. There was no way that I was going to be able to have my baby at home. I quickly changed into my everyday wear, but it was to late. The baby was coming now…

I gave birth to three very healthy and beautiful baby girls…

The first born was Chelsea who looked so much like her daddy. She had his black hair and green eyes. She was our little evil, genius.

The second born was Christine who was by fair the most unique of the triplets as she was the only one who inherited my blonde hair. Christine loves when I take her outside and I can already tell she is going to be a very athletic little girl.

Finally, there was Charity – my sweet, adorable little angel. Even at such a young age, I can already tell she is going to be kind-hearted little girl like her mother, and she’s a very friendly baby.

~ Sophia

So much has happened over the past couple of months that I hardly know where to begin.  

Charlie had celebrated his birthday the same night that I had aged into a young adult. I was very surprised that he opted to have the small party at my house instead of with his large family of eight.  

Before my eyes, I watched as my cute high school boyfriend aged into the sexiest man I have ever laid my eyes on. I loved everything about Charlie…he was an ambitious, family-oriented guy with a love for computers and the outdoors. I even adored his little quirks like his irrational fear of water.  

Charlie gets along great with the other members of my family. He particularly gets along very well with my father. The two spend hours on end in the living room working out to the television together.  

Mom and I occasionally join them, but truth be told, mom is more of a couch potato then an athlete and I always get so distracted by Charlie’s body that it’s hard to remember what exercise I was supposed to be doing.  

I should probably mention that I have also decided what I want to achieve during my life. My wish is to be a Culinary Librarian and learn all the recipes that the sim world has to offer. My interest in cooking has grown immensely since I aged into a teenager and began preparing my own meals. My parents, on the other hand, had a different dream for me. They both wanted to see me become a doctor. So to please my parents I signed up at the hospital as an organ donor and went to the library to begin reading the required material that I would need to advance to the next stage.  

Now Diary, I am a very good sim at heart as you could probably tell by my decision to become a doctor just to please my parents. I felt incredibly guilty knowing that there was a sim in Sunset Valley that hated me. Sandi French – Charlie’s ex-girlfriend – has made very rude comments about me to the entire town, but since we are both now young adults, I wanted to try to mend fences with her.  

Sandi wouldn’t have it however…she was still just as furious with me as she had been those last few months of  our senior year in high school. I spent a few hours trying to convince her to put the issue behind us and act like the mature young adults that we were, but sadly, the issue was never settled and she left even more furious with me then she had been when she arrived.  

Despite the rumors that Sandi had spread all over town, Charlie and I had agreed to take our relationship slow. I was a lady after all, and I didn’t want to disgrace my family name by sleeping with someone before marriage. For months, all we would do is sit on the couch and watch the television together.  

…At least, I thought Charlie and I were going to take our relationship slow. He surprised me one night by pulling out the most beautiful diamond ring. At first, all I could do was squeal with excitement and jump up and down. After regaining my composure, I told Charlie that I would love to marry him.  

Charlie has worked a part-time job at the local Grocery Store since he was a teenager. Despite the fact that he was at the top of his part-time career, Charlie knew that there was no way he could support a family on such a small income. With the upcoming wedding, he knew he had to make a change so he quit his job at the Grocery Store and became a snitch for the local law enforcement.  

 Charlie and I had the most beautiful wedding down by the beach below the house.  My parents and Charlie’s large family were the only ones to attend our wedding. Just as the sunset across the sky, we shared our first kiss as a happily married couple. It was so romantic!!  

And so, Charlie Benford became Charlie Montgomery…  

As soon as the wedding ceremony was finished, we thanked our guests before making a mad dash back to the house.  

We spent our wedding night as most newly weds tend to do…  

Mom and Dad were kind enough to stay out of the house most of the night to give us the privacy we needed as a newly wed couple. Dad has wanted to get mom on our brand new treadmill to train her for weeks and this was the perfect opportunity to do so.  

~ Sophia

I’ve met the most amazing boy at school. His name is Charlie Benford. We were always in the same classes growing up, but up until a few weeks ago, we had never spoken to one another. He was always just some boy from school, but we have really become such close friends in such a short amount of time. Truth be told, I really like him!!

My father can be a bit of a slob sometimes. He is always leaving empty plates on the table so if he gets hungry later, he can just walk by hours later and lick the remains clean. It’s pretty disgusting in my opinion. His habits have only increased since he started his career in business.

That is were Charlene comes in. My mother hired her to help clean up all the messes that my father leaves behind. I don’t like her though. She’s very pretty, and she’s always giving my father these seductive looks.

My mother had been dealing with her own issues, however, so she was to busy to notice. She has been very troubled lately. She loves her garden about as much as she loves my father and I, but lately all of her plants have started to die on her. Not just one or two plants either…It’s the entire garden dying all at once like someone had poisoned them. For this reason, my mother decided to join the local Science Facility – hoping that she could find a way to save the few that are remaining.

Some time passed and my parents celebrated their full adult birthdays.

My dad has even made his way up to Filing Clerk at the office. It still isn’t anywhere close to what he hopes to acheive, but it’s a good start.

What’s been happening with my life as of late? The most amazing thing that I could ever hope for…Charlie and I shared our first kiss together. I never thought that it was going to happen because we had been stuck in that “just friends” stage for months and he had started dating another girl in our class. I just knew that I had let my chance with him slip by, but he came over, told me how much he cared about me, and we kissed.

There was no way that I was going to allow another chance to pass me by…I asked Charlie to break up with his girlfriend so that the two of us could be together for real. I had no interest in being the other woman for anyone. Charlie didn’t even have to think twice about what his answer would be.

As a Lab Tech, my mom works with a lot of dangerous chemicals at work. One of mom’s co-workers had asked her to participate in an experiment by testing an unlabeled test tube. Personally, I think that sounds just crazy. What if it had been poison? Mom agreed to help, however, hoping her enthusiasm would get her noticed by her boss. She came home totally buzzed for the rest of the night, and started to work making the downstairs sink as unbreakable as she could.

That night, I would also be celebrating my young adult birthday. The stress of continuing the family’s legacy was still deeply on my mind, but I’m just such an excitable person so the stress was replaced with pure enthusiasm.

It was a rather small party but that’s just the way I like it. Charlie was able to break away from his family for a few hours to help me celebrate. I could see the pride written on my parents face as I blew out the candles.

I think that I aged up into a very pretty young woman, don’t you think so Diary?

~ Sophia

Wow, I really don’t know how to begin. I guess that I could start with the basics.  My name is Sophia Montgomery. I am currently a seventeen year old high school student with long blonde hair. I consider the color of my hair to be a mystery within itself. The only other person in our entire family line that had blonde hair was my Aunt Rhonda and her parents had been baffled at where it had come from.

I was born to Parker and Regenia Montgomery. My parents fell in love at a very young age after my mother transferred to a new high school. My parents had always made it sound like their love was straight out of a fairy tale.

Speaking of my mother, she is the most amazing woman I have ever known. My mother is my role model. She was born to my grandparents Morgan and Mortimer, and was declared their successor over all of her other siblings. I probably should mention that my mother had a number of siblings – six of them to be exact.

I feel that is the reason why I am an only child. I like to think that my grandparents didn’t intentionally overlooked any of their children, but because there were so many of them, it was hard to equally spend time with all of them.

I don’t mind the solitude personally because I am a bit of a loner at heart. 

My mother gave me her old journal when I became a teenager. It had been passed down the family line for generations – ever since my great grandmother Addison Montgomery. Since I was an only child, my mother told me that once I became a young adult, it would be my responsibility to carry on the family’s legacy.

To say that I was nervous about taking over would be an understatement. Could I really handle carrying on the family line? What if I do something wrong?

~ Sophia

Generation 4 & 5
by Ashley745

I noticed that berrypie didn’t really provide any house pictures during her generation when she had to rebuild the house from scratch so I figured I could do a quick little chapter showing off the house for my introduction.

This is what the house looks like from the front…

The first floor includes the living room, the dining room, the kitchen, a small bathroom, and the study.

A picture of the living room with a big open window to let plenty of light in.There is also a television on the opposing wall.

If you walk through the living room and past the small downstairs bathroom, you will enter the dining area. The perfect size for a family of eight.

Next to the dining room is the kitchen…

Finally, once you walk past the kitchen you enter the family’s activity room complete with a computer, book shelf, and a second couch.

On the second floor, we have the two master bedrooms with their own private bathrooms. There is also a kids bedroom, a nursery, and another bathroom.

This is basically what both the master bedrooms look like…

Outside there is the family’s garden…

It’s fairly empty at the moment, but I suspect it will grow with the family overtime.