Going Solo: Grace Gen 4.26

Two years Jonas and I had been married and life was great. Jonas decided to just move into my house since he knew I loved it here. With him there, I finally got around to those cosmetic fixes I'd been putting off because I didn't want people in and out of my house. The living room and kitchen got major make-overs as did my, well our, bedroom.

It now felt more gender neutral and it allowed us a chance to make it more ours instead of just mine. Jonas even built me a small greenhouse in the corner of my lot, and Wilson gave us the cutest fairy cottage as a wedding gift.

We spent lots of time together, I helped him maintain the community garden and still helped out at the store from time to time.

We had a great life. The only thing missing was a child. We'd not been doing anything to prevent us getting pregnant for the last year and so far we'd not had any luck. Jonas tried to keep me from being too upset by saying trying was the fun part. I knew it would happen for us eventually, but each month that passed made me feel more inadequate. He finally agreed to go with me to the doctor, I wanted to make sure everything was okay. If I knew that, then I'd be okay with having to just wait for it to happen. The day of the appointment I was fine, Jonas decided he'd get checked as well.

The nurse called back two days later with the results. We both showed everything to be within normal range. She suggested I better track my fertile days, change my diet, and maybe take some herbal supplements, things like that, but otherwise it was just a waiting game. That news did make me feel better and Jonas took great pleasure in giving me an I told you so. Having that worry off the table did ease some of my stress.

Jonas thought we should just enjoy each other when we wanted and wait for nature to take it's course. His calm, and positive attitude about the situation put me at ease so I agreed. I did do some research on various vitamins and things that were supposed to help, but decided against them. We were both young, and had plenty of time, I had faith it would happen eventually. Another year passed and it was still just the two of us, well three with Vor being included.

Vor, my loyal companion wasn't as young as he used to be. It was a hard fact to acknowledge, but I knew my time with him was limited. I knew we had a few more good years, I just didn't know how many, but we planned to spoil him for as long as he was around.

Today was Love Day, and our anniversary. Jonas said he had a special date planned for us. When we arrived at the park, I couldn't help but smile.

"I thought it would be nice to revisit our first date."

"It was very sneaky of you to trick me into coming on a date back then."

"Yes, it was, but I really wanted to spend my birthday with you."

We climbed into the balloon where he had champagne and strawberries waiting. Being back in that moment, I could feel how romantic a setting it was and couldn't believe I'd missed that before.

It was an amazing ride, even if we didn't check out much of the scenery.

A little over a month later Jonas was happily humming in the kitchen as he prepared his delicious pancakes. Mine just never seemed to taste as good and he wouldn't tell me his secret. Joking that it gave me a reason to keep him around.

The second I walked out of the room, my nose was assaulted by a strong odor that sent me running for the bathroom.

"Are you okay?"

"Yeah, just woke up feeling a bit queasy."

"Why don't you go back to bed and I'll bring breakfast to you."

"No, I'm good."

Only I wasn't. Jonas had to open all the windows to get the smell out of the house. I spent the rest of the day in bed. The next day was the same thing. Just moving made my stomach turn. By the third day, Jonas was concerned and called Mom to come check on me.

"Oh, honey you look terrible," she said taking a seat beside me.

"Thanks Mom."

"When's the last time you ate?"

"A few days ago. Nothing will stay down."

"Any other symptoms? Headache? Body ache? Fever?" I shook my head. She smiled again. "You and Jonas have been trying to conceive right? I nodded. "Well, you could be suffering from an extreme case of morning sickness. Have you taken a test?"

I shook my head. "I hadn't had a reason to, I'm not late."

She sent Jonas to the store for an over the counter test just to be sure. Getting me out of bed and to the bathroom to take it was a chore since moving made the room spin and my stomach lurch. Three minutes later my world changed again. The test was positive. If I hadn't felt so much like crap, I would have been more excited, but I only wanted to get back in bed. The rough days I had experienced were only the beginning. I couldn't eat.

Water barely wanted to stay down. Vor didn't want to leave my side and the day I collapsed trying to get out of bed his barks alerted Jonas who was out in the garden tending my plants since I couldn't. Jonas called 911 and I was rushed to the hospital and admitted. I stayed there for nearly a week due to dehydration and malnutrition. Jonas looked like he'd aged 20 years with worry and refused to go home while I was there. Carter kept Vor for us and the longest Jonas would be away was to get something to eat.

The first four months of the pregnancy I thought I was dying, I felt so bad. Sleeping was the only time I felt relief so I slept a lot. When I talked to Hope, she said her pregnancy was pretty easy with Trevor, Mom said she had a little morning sickness, but nothing like I was experiencing. Leave it up to me to have the worst of it. Wind sent me some sort of tea that would help curve the nausea. Jonas just kept apologizing and promised to never get me pregnant again. Around month six I could be up for short periods of time. I'd go outside, work a little on my plants, or sit and talk to Jonas while he tended the garden.

I just needed to be outside letting the sun hit my face, I hated being cooped up indoors. As the pregnancy progressed the doctors said I was doing fine and the baby was doing fine. When we went for the ultrasound, Peanut didn't want to cooperate, so we still didn't know if it was a boy or girl. We didn't care as long as the baby was healthy.

Jonas waited on me hand and foot. Back-rubs, foot massages, crazy midnight cravings for fried peanut butter sandwiches. No matter what it was, he took care of it. He loved the idea of becoming a father. Mom and Erin decorated the nursery for us.

I picked out things online and had them shipped to the house since I was still on bedrest. We went for a jungle theme since we both loved the outdoors so much. We had just sat down to dinner when my contractions started.

I was still about 4 weeks early, but by the time Jonas got us to the hospital I was too far gone to stop it. Twelve hours later we welcomed Matthew Wilson Solo into the world.

**A/N**

So Grace is still only level 7 of her career. To move from level 7 to level 8 required like $14K in profits. She still has $2K or so to sell to make that move. This is with her selling at the consignment store and with the LTR Suave Seller (think that's it). She spends nearly all day gardening every other day since I won't let Jonas help.

Family shots

Yes, sadly poor Vor is now an elder. I'd already extended the adult dog age by a few days last time he was close, but I didn't this time. :(

Hope and Caleb's son in my game aged up to a child. Darell McIntyre

Carter and his now ex-fiance have a son named Mikel who looks mostly like his mother and appears to be human.

As seen in the last update, both Carter and Erin are YA now and available on my mediafire. Carter has CC hair that may not transfer and his shirt is also CC. I think the rest of his clothes are EA things, various store or EP things. Same for Erin, her formal wear hair is CC as is the jewelry and such she wears (shown in the wedding). Her eyebrows are also CC. 

Carter Gruber traits: loves the heat, athletic, eccentric, disciplined, and family-oriented.

Erin Gruber traits: adventurous, ambitious, loner, over-emotional, and good