Chapter 9.8 – August 2023 – To promote or not to promote... (Parenting is no longer a question...)

Being on pregnancy and then parental leave is.. nice enough, but it's pretty clear from Sofias dreams at night that she misses her job.. spending time at 'the office', proving her worth by helping people in various degrees of need and just in general maintaining things around the fire station.. Seven months of going to work was a little to long now...

 

It still has the benefit of getting to sleep a little longer every morning while her husband got out of bed to check on the baby before having breakfast and heading off to his job...

 

..and panicking while thinking about what to do with Yumi and her habit to chew up every piece of furniture available.. buying toys for her to play with had no effect at all. She still goes for the furniture.. do they really need to take her into town to find a dog trainer or something?

 

When Sofia woke up, she would start her day as usual.. checking her body in the mirror to check for any signs of aging, and if she found any they would need to be taken care of as soon as possible.. She had to always look her best..

 

..and then there was time to care for the youngest one. Little Rose Marie.. sometimes she found herself looking forward to the moment when her little baby girl spoke her first word, when she learned how to stumble and eventually walk around on her own.. and other times she hated herself for having the very same thoughts... but she always made sure that her little diamond was well taken care of. She was so small, so innocent, so cute...

She thought the same about little Yumi as she walked downstairs to give her a treat...

..until she was being snarled at and met with the same temperament that makes the dog chew on all the furniture..

"I don't know what to do with you, Yumi, to make you stop chewing on our furniture all the time..."

While Sofia is at home being a little tired about Yumis bad behaviour I check up on Palashs younger siblings to see what they're up to. Bhavan is at home not doing anything special, and Nitya has gone to one of the local university colleges auditorium to hold a lecture about cooking meals at home.. So she got some aspirations to be a chef, maybe?

 

Sofia spent her days happily (mostly) caring for her little jewel, but at the same time couldn't help the growing feeling of missing her job. Soon after this month her mandatory parental leave would be over, and she could return to her duties at the fire station again..

 

..and the dog too, the other little 'jewel'. If only she could find a way to rid her of her destructive habits..

Things looked good over at the High Products Business Building as Palash just got a promotion to Vice President..

 

..or maybe not, because almost as soon as they had given it to him, they realized they might have made a mistake and gave it to his sister Udisha instead...

..or maybe not again, because all of a sudden they pulled back her promotion to.. really? Where's the workers union here? You can't do that to your employees! What kind of morons is it that's running this business? You need to make up your minds! ;)

 

"Yeah, I swear.. I've always been on time for work! And I was so happy when finally I thought they'd notice my efforts, but no! Can you believe it!?"

 

In anticipation of her husband returning from work – with or without his promotion -Sofia was as usual in the bathroom to freshen up her appearance..

 

Sofia of course hoped for some of Palashs attention as soon as he came home, however his main priority appeared to be the little baby upstairs as he walked into their bedroom to snuggle and feed the little one..

..and make the bed as if he was going to take a nap on it or something..

..except he's not of course as he goes downstairs again to greet his wife to where the latino music is still playing from the stereo..

 

..and give her a good warm massage..

 

..and whisper sweet words into her ear..

 

In spite of all this, Sofia is still unsure that she's good enough and feels the need to remind him that she's got a swimming pool.. He had to appreciate that she though, since her reminder to him of being a fire fighter worked so well earlier, but..

 

..unfortunately she was wrong.. Palash didn't appreciate her bragging this time and the mood he had worked to build up was killed almost instantly..

Sofia trying to 'save' it by talking about her car wasn't helping.. Material goods and fast cars wasn't what Palash was about, she should have learnt by now, but old habits die hard..

 

"I'll go for a bath..."

Though Palash wanted to have another baby with her already, now was not the time for love making..

 

..but Sofia still had her little baby girl and Yumi to care for and give some love to...

It might take a while for Palash to fulfill his wish of having a second child, if it will ever happen.. only time will tell..

Good night...

 

 

Other happenings:

Cristina Østreng of the Østreng household who lives out on Outwash Point finally turned 18 and is now a young adult!

Christina in her new car as her father Benjamin and her younger sister Simone says goodbye.

She also passed her drivers exam and got her drivers license as well as deciding to pack up and leave the nest to settle down on her own in a house a little closer to town at Ferskvannsvingen 32. The Watcher congratules and wishes her the best of luck on her new adult life! ;)

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