Snap Back to Reality

 At the coffee shop (again).

 Ordering a chamomile tea this time.

 A muffin!

 Checking the job board and thinking about Willow again.

 I was given a job to play some video games at Keith's Komics.  I earned $100 for it!

I also posed nude for an art class (good luck to them seeing my child-bearing body) and donated plasma, giggles and saliva.  It made me a bit loopy!

 I was invited to a party but stayed home to study for my final exam that was in a few days.

 I rang up a few of my kids to chat.  I believe I was talking to Liam (#14) here.

 Running through the university at night with my backpack.

 Reading on my new swing I bought!

 We had a class activity which apparently involved everyone sitting around on the grass drawing.

 My lecturer chased me...

 Mmm... diet glunka cola...

 This will help me through my exam...

... which I passed with flying colours!  I invited this guy (Cody) out for some bowling (the blonde guy behind me follows me everywhere.

 Such determination.

Cody rockin' the lanes.

Ah, time to return home where I have six children awaiting me.

I came home to all the kids in the nursery, which was cool.

A lot of things happening in this picture...

 Lila in the swing!

 Sloane placed an aura of soothing or something on the girls to calm them - how sweet!

Rule #1 of learning to drive - actually have your hands on the steering wheel!  Flynn shows you how it's done (or more like how it's not done).

My little martial arts boy Drew earned a new belt!  It's in his blood after all.  And his name.  His middle name is Qiang which translates to 'strength'.

 Wings sticking out of a limo...?

 Oh!  That would be the kids going off to formal.  Drew, Paris and Sloane in the limo.

 But they drove away and left Flynn on the curb!

 I got to spend some time with just me and my newest babies.  Here with Lila.

 Oh!  And it was also Ladybug's birthday!  Wow, she is huge as an adult, much bigger than when she was a puppy!

 Big girl.

 I present to you the Prom King and Queen, Drew and Paris Bloom!

After Mummy re-tanned recently, Sloane informed me she would like to get a tan to "see how it looks on her pale skin".

 We took caution with her wings and she came out looking magnificent!

 Yummy.

 Sure enough, Paris wanted one too.

 Ladybug watching over Willow, it's just too cute.

 Uh oh.

 Ladybug likes swimming!  Look at her go!

So, I was tipped off by someone *cough* Drew *cough* that both of the girls picked up romantic interests at the formal!  That would explain the tans!  After school, Paris went over to...

... Sloane's romantic interest's house?  His name is Bradly Dexter.  Paris' man, unfortunately, just grew up into a young adult.

Sloane went over and attempted to have her first kiss with Bradly but, sadly, he rejected her.

 "Not my sister, you bitch."

But, soon enough, things were happening and they kissed AND are now going steady!  Agh!

Me-time for Mummy!

It seems that seventeen pregnancies (and 28 resulting kids (but technically 27 because I never carried Bryony)) has finally taken its toll on my body - I've enlarged!

 Speaking of Bryony, we had a visit from her!  Just in time for the girls' first birthday!

 Big brother Ryder (baby 10) brings Lila to the cake.

Newly-retanned mummy brings Willow to the cake.  Siblings Gemma (#15), Hunter (#3) and Drew (#24) in foreground.

 Lila as a toddler!  She seems to have an unexpected hair colour.

Willow as a toddler!  She has my hair colour, making her the 10th out of 28 to be so.  Wow, I thought it was more than that (Matilda, Darcy, Charley, Parker, Rory, Effie, Flynn, Sloane, Paris and now Willow have inherited my signature pink hair).  Sloane and Paris are the only twins to share my hair... well except for Rory and Effie, but the other triplet Monet has their father Kenji's dark hair.
Don't they look the same?  Ah, so cute.  Most of my twins have looked really different so far (except for Teddy and Jack who are practically identical except for slight eye colour differences), so we'll have to see if Lila and Willow grow up looking alike!

Demon eyes!!  Willow's eyes are brown, neither mine nor Salem's.

Willow's skin, since birth, has had a hard time deciding which skin tone it wants to be.  Right now it's settled between the genie blue and mine, but in the family portrait it's hard to tell.  Humph.

Tell me what you think.  (Sorry it's so small but that's the way the game is!)

It appears to be that Lila has the same coloured eyes!  Held by sister Paris here.

Our Saturday consists of me being on the phone whilst Flynn and Drew do their homework and Paris reads a book and Lila sits hungry in the high chair.  (Also, did I revert back to my original figure?  I didn't even exercise!)

 Look who I'm on the phone to - Hunter!

Every time we have a teen birthday we always get these university baskets at our door (or the middle of our driveway, in the bushes), so we've had plenty of them in our time, but I usually just sell them.  I found the one from Sloane and Paris' ageing up in the bushes and decided, just for fun, to take what they call the 'aptitude test'.

Here's my results.  I don't know how I got a Distinguished Science Award.

It was out of my control, honestly!  But I somehow found myself dialling the number for Sims University Enrolment Services... I am now enrolled in a Fine Arts degree with a partial scholarship!  I'm not doing the degree so I can get a job when I get home (as I can't, raising all my kids) but it's just for a new experience and to meet new people and have fun! A mumma of 28 really needs some me-time. I feel bad leaving six kids at home but I've got some of my older kids enlisted to help out, especially with Lila and Willow whilst my teens are at school. 

 Sloane stood in the bushes waving me off.

 Drew waves but apparently Flynn can't because Paris is in the way.

An enthusiastic farewell from Paris... too enthusiastic...

 Off I go!

 I've arrived at my new house!

Using my sketchbook for the first time - this course should be a breeze, since I'm maxed out in painting!

 Meeting a professor at the meet and greet!

 This guy was thinking of me,  I think...

 Speaking to him - he's doing my course!

 I was starving and trying to get something from the barista bar but everyone was blocking my way!

 And then they all started taking photos of me!

 Ordering a cheese danish from the lovely old guy.

 But didn't get to eat it as the Union building closed!  What a waste!

 Thinking about Willow at the Roasted Toasted Beans Coffee Shop.

 I ordered a bagel and a brownie...

 ... and a coffee!

 Relaxing and reading my course book.

 Lecture time!

 Taking notes.  The guy next to me seems to be paying attention...

 A fight broke out outside!

 This blonde chick was defeated.

 THE PAPARAZZI FRIGGIN STOOD BEHIND ME IN MY LECTURE.  UGH.

 I decided to give a presentation.

 "As you can see on this blank board behind me..."

 And I gave a lecture on painting!

 I studied in the library room.

 I was invited to a bonfire party by a girl at the sorority house, Paris Vanderbuilt.

I was given a dare to 'get juiced'.  I was hesitant about fulfilling the dare as I am a responsible mother who has successfully raised (so far) 22 beautiful babies into young adults.  But this was university, and time for me to let loose a bit without worrying about my kids too much.  It was me-time, a well-deserved break for myself.  I did a keg stand - it was fun!

 Mmmm.... juice.....

 This creepy vampire guy took a photo of me while I laughed.

What's a bonfire party without a bonfire??  Chucking a test tube into it!