House 5: The Lawrences. Week 1-4

After the death of their son Tom, elderly couple Zedekiah (knowledge) and Donna (romance) Lawrence struggled to raise their three grandsons - Derek, a fortune teen, Mark, a young child, and Jack, just a toddler. Somehow, they managed to squeeze beds enough into their small house, although it certainly wasn't easy.


Knowing full well how much their grandparents and big brother had struggled to give them a decent childhood, both Mark and Jack grew up focused on the importance of family. Derek and Jack were both very outgoing boys, demanding a lot of attention, while middle child Mark was shy and withdrawn. Despite this, it was Mark who was the first to find true love, in Grace Preston.


Oh, Derek had flirted with Deirdre O'Neill, and struck up a friendship with Andrea Hogan, but his primary interest was always making money. He even considered not going to college, in order to stay home and work to improve the family's finances, but his grandparents talked him out of that.


Jack fell in love with pretty store clerk Michelle Kearney, and they were soon going steady, just like Mark and Grace. All in all, life was pretty good for the Lawrence family, despite the lack of funds.


Mark left for college, and Derek surprised his family by bringing home a fiancée, Laura Ramirez. Donna was ecstatic to see him married - Derek had always secretly been her favorite. Sadly, she died soon afterwards, before the birth of her great-grandchild, Teresa.


Zedekiah did live long enough to meet her, but the Grim Reaper came for him shortly afterwards.


Jack joined Mark at college soon after the death of their grandfather, leaving fortune sims Derek and Laura to raise their daughter and work on their careers - Laura was in show business, while Derek spent some time as an artist before finding the job he'd always wanted, in athletics.

Hey, who says knowledge sims can't enjoy a bit of romance?