The kids had homework...and well, they ended up having to do that, while River sat by the entrance on the floor and sketched for a bit. I would say that Allan had a bit of cognitive dissonance seeing his mother sitting on the floor in front of the door, oblivious to anyone, sketching. "Hey...Oh...isn't it a bit cold? Nope...ok...well, I'm gonna go do my homework...ya...that's what I'll do..." ~raises eyebrow~ "o...k..." ~wonders if Mom has finally lost what marbles she had.
Meanwhile for Molly, ever since she and Satoshi decided to leave the fold of the family, was having deep regrets. They were financially struggling, but did her frustration with having to leave Sunset Valley burn the bridges that she had had with the family and Satoshi was having second thoughts. It wasn't going well...so sitting on a park bench outside the grocery store seemed to be par for the course these days.
Haruo emerged from his place of employ now a partial owner of the Bistro, and making his way to the Spa...where he laid down another wad of cash to become part owner of that business as well. Certainly there was a lot to be said for ensuring that there was a steady stream of passive income coming in for the family.
That was his last investment stop and he decided to go over to the Apothecary to drop off a few gemstones for consignment. Evidently the consignment store had a new proprietor. After a lively negotiation, he dropped off the gemstones that he wanted to consign and left. There really wasn't a great selection of potions to purchase anyways; at least that time.
Caitlin realized that the computer got broken so she set about fixing it...to improve her handiness skill. Although computers are a royal pain-in-the-rear, she managed to fix the thing and get it to boot properly (although in real life, if you have sparks and smoke coming out of your computer, your motherboard as well as your power-source is fried and the 'puter is pretty much on a one-way trip...to the dump)
When Haruo got home, he had the bright idea of going out and "messing with bees"...probably not the brightest thing to do "in the dark". And well...the screams pretty much told the rest of the family that Haruo wasn't the brightest spark in the universe when it came to life-decisions. Kinda makes me wonder how he made it half-way through university. Evidently book-smart doesn't equal life-decisions-smart.
River went down to the park on the promenade and did some painting of the statue...and the result hung up in the gallery where one could see it clearly. Evidently it was classed as a Masterpiece.
It was becoming evident that this house wasn't big enough for the family which was growing older...and it would be soon that each growing child would require a room of their own and their own space to be able to expand out their desires to learn...and well, Haruo was finding that this house just wasn't big enough to contain their dreams. Which meant yet again that they would have to rebuild the house. Well...it also meant that they would have to temporarily move into a motel or something that they could live out of while the construction of the house took place...and so they did...
After a long serious discussion with the family...they found a designer and an architect to draw up plans for a larger house. with not only room enough to grow, but also enough bedrooms to realize that if they needed to consolidate their entire family together in one house, they would have the room to do so. Plus, River wanted a few aesthetics on the property...and thus we leave the Chikamoris for the period of time that it took to build their home. (Author: Really...it's not that interesting...to have to watch them go about their daily business while waiting for the house to build.)
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