It's winter and we're back with the Waits. Unlike most of the women in the neighbourhood, Eva has already given her husband a heir and a spare, so she's hoping for a girls next. The benefit of having girls first is that they help out more around the household and with subsequent children. Without those extra hands Eva is definitively feeling stretched thin.
The boys are coming along well, though, and are busy learning their mechanical skills. With Eva having such a difficult pregnancy, Thornton has been forced to step in and help with the boys now and then. The rule that says trade families can't hire help is brutal.
He has stocked the shop up with more toys for the season. One of their first visitors this week is the new vicar, father Graves. Mrs Graves is technically the matron of the town orphanage, although there aren't any orphans available as of yet.
Shop hours are only four hours a day, but somehow delivery always seems to happen during. And it's twins again. Watcher help us. Two girls this time; Helen and Venetia.
Well... It's not good, but at least it isn't the grim reaper. Eva had a fear of having more kids and it just fulfilled itself twice over.
They're lucky that there isn't an asylum in town yet. Postnatal depression was a prime reason for women to get locked up.
Brutal! I know for sure which rules I'm going to abolish in the future, although the good news is that generation one is the hardest. Once they have more extended families and elders in the household, young couples won't be all on their own.
Eva goes a little crazy, and who can blame her? Every day that there isn't a bowl of kibble on the floor is a victory. That might fly for the lower classes, but we have higher standards here!
The girls grow up and for one long day there are four toddlers in the house at once. It helps that they're so cute.
Thornton did roll up the want to teach them to go to potty, so I let him help with that. He's probably as tired of the dirty nappies as I am.
Then the boys grow up. For now they look almost identical, but we'll see how they fare as teens. Eden, the heir, is in purple, and Emmet is in orange.
Eden rolled knowledge/family which seems suitable for a man in his position, and he inherited the childish and eccentric traits.
Emmet rolled fortune/romance and got the helpless romantic and tinkerer traits. I'm hoping to set him up with a proper toy store and focus more on clockworks and robotics here once they grow up.
Good rolls for once, and with that we leave the family until next round. it was a tough one, but they got through it with the children none the worse for wear.
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