Maybe I'm Selfish

Round 3 - Winter 2024
Sam and Tina are 31, Michael is 12
Narrated by Sam Leary

Well Tina is pretty far along in her pregnancy. It's not that I'm unhappy with her being pregnant. I know this is something she has wanted for a while now. It's just that, I was pretty happy with how our lives were going. I love my son and I would have been happy if it had just stayed the three of us. Not that I'm unhappy now, it's just the farm is actually turning a profit now and I don't want to even think about the added pressures of having a baby in the house.....

Mike has grown up so much! He's in junior high now and before I can blink my eyes I know he'll be an adult. I don't know if he wants to go to college or if he plans to just help me run the farm. Tina is pretty serious about him going, but it would be ok with me if he didn't go. I never went and I'm doing just fine.......
Tina is still up moving all around and cleaning up. She's such a dedicated mother. I know she'll do all she can to take care of the new baby. I mean I'm going to help of course. As much as I can anyway. She's working at the new school now so I'm going to have to hire someone else to be cashier for the store. I would have rather been able to keep it in the family. Now I'm going to have to pay wages to someone which takes money from the family.....

I really thought that Tina would be happy with Retro. After a few tough months of training him, he's gotten to be such a really great dog. I wouldn't mind having another dog. And I know Retro wouldn't mind having some company. And why shouldn't we have another dog? It's something I want.........

So I head down to the pet store and get another retriever. This one is a girl and I decided to name her Orea. She reminds me of an oreo cookie but oreo isn't really a girl's name! She's beautiful and I know Retro will be glad for the company.......Tina is probably going to freak out though........

I get Mike on my side first. He falls in love with Orea as soon as he sees her. I only hoped that Tina would fall in love with her too.......yea it's another mouth to feed, but really, shouldn't Retro be happy too?

I didn't want Retro to feel he had been replaced so I made sure to spend some quality time with him after we got Orea. Tina was pissed when she came home and saw the dog there. She yelled about how we were about to have a baby and we hadn't even bought the crib or changing table or anything. I told her we had the money for all that, it's not like the dog was 1000 simoleans or something............
I hired Christy Toyanga as our new cashier. She was dressed pretty questionably for an interview but she promised that she would dress better when she came for work. She was a young, intelligent, charismatic woman and I know she's going to be a great asset to the market.....

Tina wasn't really speaking to me by that time so it was pretty quiet around the house. I mean I completely understand why she was mad. I didn't really talk to her about getting a new dog.......but I know.....maybe it's a little childish but I wanted something. She gets another baby, something that I didn't really want right now, so why shouldn't I get something too? Oh, the things we do for love........

I like to watch Michael work in the garden sometimes........he's such a hard worker and is so dedicated. Is it fair for me to expect him to be happy living on a farm for the rest of his life? Shouldn't I want what's best for him? If he goes to college, he could get a really great job and move into a nice house and have nice things. I'm such a selfish bastard sometimes. Because I really and truly want him to stay here with me and Tina.........

I had an extremely picky customer come in. I usually hate dealing with them, but I was determined for this guy to walk out of here with some fresh produce. He kept asking questions about whether it was actually freshly grown. I wanted to say, "Take a look out of the window wierdo, see the farm?" What I said though was, "Yes, sir, picked them all myself right out of my garden.

I'm glad I wasn't rude to him because he turned out to be an undercover reporter! He gave my business a good review and even gave me the Best of the Best award! It was in that moment that I knew that I was destined to go places with this business........
Even though I'm not as excited as I should be about the new baby, Michael is over-joyed at the knowledge that he's going to be a big brother.......hey, I could use some more strong hands to work on the farm.....maybe we'll have another boy.......

Orea and Retro are getting along like old friends now. It's so wonderful to see. With me being busy with the farm and Michael and Tina being at school all day, Retro was left to play by himself all day. Now he has Orea to play with!

A man couldn't ask for a better son than my Michael. And I'm sure the new baby will be just as wonderful as he is. I guess I am a little selfish. But I think I've earned the right to be. No one thought I would make it. There were times when it even felt like Tina didn't think we could pull through. But I did it. And no one can deny that..........


*Sam is just awful! All of his wants surround the farm. And then he got the want for a new pet! He has a baby on the way, but you wouldn't know it by looking at his wants! Tina has wants for Michael to get scholarships and got to college. Sam doesn't have any of those! He really is quite a selfish man! Hopefully his attitude will change once the baby comes.......Retro and Orea really are cute together though!!!!

*Please excuse any typos. I'm at work trying to crank these out while I can. My time at home is being spent writing a research paper on the cult Isis and it's effects on Christianity that is due on Monday! So I gotta get these out when I can!!! Ugh, I hate grad school......getting in the way of my simming!!!!