#family newsletter

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(AN: I've been seeing that a recent game update has wrecked havoc on people's games so I guess it's good I play offline, therefore never updating the game 😂. I got this idea randomly so I'm glad I found another reason to dig up old files. These next two side posts will serve as yearly round ups so that you can be reminded of what has happened in the sim-year that's come to a close. I will put the text for this under the cut for easier readability.)

Narrator: Family newsletters have been a thing for a while in this sims universe, the larger families (Allan's and Claire's) have used these to send out to friends and family who live quite a way away and are less technologically advanced. Casandra loves being able to write up and tell people about her ever-growing family, so this is easy businesss for her.

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Collins Family Newsletter

Our family verse for the year was from Psalm 37:5,6 “Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass. And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.”

To christen the new year, our son Charles and his wife Lorilee welcomed their first child, a boy they named Everett Collins. These two were ‘newlyweds until very recently, but that gauntlet was passed on swiftly and quickly. They live in a wonderful apartment around 30 minutes from us and are praying about buying their first property. Charles works the admin side of this plumbing business owned by a member of Newcrest Baptist, and Lorilee is now a devoted stay-at-home-mum.

This year we had precious Lana join the family! Parker and his beautiful bride were joined together in the Lord’s design on a wonderful spring day. Their courtship and engagement have been so sweet to watch, and they both made sure to honour the Lord and their parents during the whole process. They now live in the same apartment building as Charles and Lorilee and are praying they can buy a house in the near future. Parker continues to assist churches with their media, working mainly with the Newcrest Baptist media team; Lana has a ministry that aims to point young women towards the Lord in all they do.

Almost immediately after we got home from the wedding, Barrett and Kyleigh welcomed precious little Jackson Collins to the family. He joins older siblings Chloe, Allan Jr (AJ), Benjamin (Benji), Rose, Violet, Daisy, Marigold, Olivia, Preston, and Jefferson. Barrett and Kyleigh have trusted the Lord with the size of their family and he continues to bless them for their faithfulness! Kyleigh homeschools the children and Barrett works at an auto body shop, they are praying about adding an extension to their house. They recently announced that they’re expecting another baby that will join the family next autumn before Harvestfest - Praise the Lord!

In the summer Mason and Adalynn welcomed little Bethany Leonard to the family! She doesn’t know it yet but she’s a very blessed little girl - some would even say an answer to prayer! She joins 8 big brothers: Noah, Luke, Aaron, Paul, Joshua, Caleb, Jonah, and Titus. Bethany is doted on my all of her big brothers, as well as her delighted parents and their extended family. Adalynn continues to homeschool the boys whilst Mason works as a manager. They partake in ministry at Willowcreek Baptist, their home church, and are busy in the Lord’s work as a family.

Zoe and her husband Francisco announced to us recently that they’re expecting another little one next autumn! This blessing will join older siblings Javier Jr (JJ), and Cassie. Francisco continues to bravely serve in our country's military, and the family are a few months away from closing out their time in Windenburg. We thank the Lord for his mercy in keeping them safe daily as they make sacrifices to keep us all safe!

Maggie, her husband Shane, and their twins Iris and Arlo are thriving in San Myshuno, as are Reece, his wife Stacie and their kids Liam and Hazel. Both families attend a wonderful church that has an amazing ministries, one of which has them doing outreach to save the lives of the unborn! Their families are such a blessing to us and to those around them!

Beckett and Mandy are in Selvadorada and are thriving in the mission field! They came over for Harvestfest and enthralled us of wonderful stories of their work with the locals and about how so many people are getting saved and giving their lives to the Lord! They’re almost fluent in Selvadoradan simlish and send us such eye watering videos of them out in ministry reaching the hearts of the Lord and bringing souls to the Lord! We are so proud of them and their hearts for the Lord!

Amira, Thomas, and little Maya are doing wonderful in Windenburg! Little Maya is growing more and more daily, with her doting parents loving on her! Thomas continues working in accounting, with Amira caring for house and home. Priscilla, Felix, Andrew, and darling Grace are also thriving in Oasis Springs. Felix continues to work for his father, working to slowly change the country and bring it back to the Lord!

Onto those of us left at home; Allan continues in preaching at home and at various churches all over. We’ve had the blessing of being invited to various churches, tent meetings, revivals, and camps over the course of the year that have strengthened and blessed us more than we could ever express! In our travels we always try and see the kids if we happen to be passing by them on our travels. When we’re not being a preacher and preacher’s wife, we’re at home being parents and grandparents! This year we counted 55 people at our house for Harvestfest, including 30 grandbabies! We’ve been so greatly blessed by the Lord this year (like every year) that we can truly never even begin to repay the Lord for all the he’s done for us.

Macie, Annette, and Ashton are all making good use of themselves and the seasons of life that the Lord has them in. Macie spends all her free time in service to others, when she’s not helping with her local nieces and nephews, she’s providing child care to families at church. If she’s not local to Newcrest then no doubt she’s found herself on the staff of a camp, or helping a ministry with their outreach - aiding more hearts to turn toward salvation.

Annette has also positioned herself to serve others, in the recent past she’s spent her time babysitting and helping various families who need it. She’s recently been asked to join the admin team of a ministry run by a neighbouring church, so in the new year she’ll be working as an office assistant. It will be different, but it’s still an avenue of service to the Lord and she’s excited for this opportunity.

Ashton also likes to babysit in her free time, when she’s not home she’s travelling to see her siblings that live all over. She’s recently taken to baking and has found herself assisting a church member with a bakery often, with part of the proceeds going to support pregnancy care centres in our area!

As we close this year out, Allan and I are eternally grateful for all that the Lord has done for us and our family. We pray that this past year has been a time of worship, prayer, and togetherness. We also pray that this next year is full of the Lord’s mercies and blessings!

May you continue to be guided by the Lord's light,

Allan & Casandra Collins.

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dont got much to offer for The Holiday but have these sillies!

happy valentines day :D

[the-meme-monarch]

UTDR NEWSLETTER SPOILERS IF YOU CARE

you need to water your friends to keep them happy and Healthy

[missholoska]

like father like daughter ❄️

[cowgirls-blues]

Even in her newsletter Izzy makes me laugh

this is such a dumb car but at least it’s one I can draw somewhat

[alyimoss]

IM SOBBING????

PAPYRUS FLOWEY INTERACTION SPOTTED ACTIVATING FROTHING AT THE FUCKING MOUTH

also these two

[instaquarius]

So, about the new Chara/Asriel lore...

kind of yelled about this on my twitter already but-

WHAT IF Chara was keeping track in their mind cuz they know they'll only live to 100 or even just- maybe they started counting after accidentally poisoning Asgore and they felt bad so they spent a few days with Asriel "collecting" happy memories until Chara got to like- 99 or something or 999 and THEN decided to off themselves and come up with the plan to eat the buttercups and have their SOULs fuse to free everyone cuz they already had it in their mind after the incident that they're going to die, but wanted to give Asriel some happy memories before telling their plan for it-

and cuz chara's fave number is 9 and its the "highest number" thats why they kept count so it was kinda like, for them too- to die happy and with their BFF

because

and thats why Chara wnted to gather as many happy memories as possible to share with asriel before telling him the news about their plan to off themselves

so it wouldn't hurt him (or atl thats what Chara convinced themselves of)

and it wouldn't hurt Chara either cuz they are now holding "99 good memories" so they can't hold anymore cuz 9 is the highest number QWQ

I don't know- just some thoughts I wanted to share about this, and maybe spark up some conversations about this?

Also kind of off topic but now I can't stop thinking about just- Asriel maybe writing that for Chara to cheer them up cuz they were so sad

(maybe even post- the whole accidental poisoning the pie meant for Asgore??? since i headcanon that was the turning point for chara and why they considered offing themselves cuz of their guilt mixed with the self-hate and stuff)

But then Chara never saw the letter Asriel made for Chara telling them he still loved Chara and didn't blame them at all for what happened. And it was just an accident (since Chara obviously dies anyways)

I also can;t stop thinking of the implications that Asriel really did just innocently think because of DETERMINATION that Chara would be able to live for 999 years along with him (cuz Boss Monster)

Not realizing even IF Chara hadn't offed themselves early, that humans can only live up to 100 years or whatever-

[seancurry1]

I couldn’t keep going back to that first moment all over again. And I was diagnosed with a relatively straightforward, well-understood form of cancer, at a time in my life when I was in excellent physical shape to fight it. Had this happened twenty years ago, with the science at the time, or twenty years later, in an older body, the news might’ve been different. Larger than all that, however, was the actual crossing of the threshold: going from “not someone who has cancer” to “someone who has cancer.” Everyone I hadn’t told yet was someone who had unconsciously sorted me into the group of people who had never had cancer. Or, perhaps, it was more about me: before I told someone, inside their mind existed a world where I didn’t have cancer. Telling them would change that world, and the version of me that was inside it, forever. It wasn’t that it was hard, or emotionally taxing, or devastating to tell people. It was that every time I told someone, another world in which I didn’t have cancer ended, almost as if I was giving myself cancer all over again.

I wrote about Kate Middleton's cancer announcement, my own cancer diagnosis (3 years in remission now), and how we maybe should all extend each other a bit more grace.

I hope you'll give it a read.

[superbecky]

🎉 First post for 2023 🎉

Of course I had to draw this from the official winter newsletter, how could I not? Granted, I am a bit late; Christmas happened and then I got the flu... but the point is that I still managed to draw it though!

Also, it is canon now that Sans can open his mouth, maybe???... I kinda love that.

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[caenith]

'I see,' said Frodo: 'you want to get married, and yet you want to live with me in Bag End too? But my dear Sam, how easy! Get married as soon as you can, and then move in with Rosie. There's room enough in Bag End for as big a family as you could wish for.'

Sam, Rosie and Frodo as a little family 👉👈🥲

[anne0301]

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Griffin: Miggy, do you live here in the clubhouse all the time?

Miggy: I would prefer you didn’t dox me on stream

[helenofblackthorns]

Cassandra Clare writing the pre-tlh short stories and then forgetting about them & what they had established as canon when actually writing the last hours is my villain origin story. like it makes me so violent. and I get things change as the writing process goes on but imo as an author you have a responsibility to abide by what you previously wrote & published. you don't get to pretend that it just never happened.

[tayne-dot-exe]

its kinda hilarious how little fear and how much trust I move through the world with, like my neighbor has true crime white woman fear and when I took her to the paved trail by 2 the million dollar houses near our apartment at night she was like "omg aren't you scared" literally the only thing to be afraid of out there is the HOA ppl calling the cops on us but its also just an exercise trail and thats what we are doing... all year I have been looking for ppl to do nature walks with and finding ppl who don't do much of it but are interested, and they're like what if the killer is there. but they agreed to get in my car and go to the woods with me after 3 texts so are you afraid of strangers or not lol

anyway especially in this master naturalist thing I'm meeting even stranger ppl in the woods like Friday I just showed up at some white family's farmhouse 2 hours from home down their mile long driveway just cos someone put it on the calendar for camping but I was the only one to show up that day cos ppl were scared of rain but the family was really nice and they let me sleep in the barn so I could put my tent up the next day. And it was such a great weekend more ppl came the next day including a couple friends and I just felt like it was so nice that they do this all the time inviting people and entertaining and just let ppl explore their property. I think the most dangerous thing about places like this is people thinking you're trespassing so its so nice knowing you are invited and welcome. They were ready to provide breakfast and dinner but I was told it would be potluck so my friend and I each brought enough food for ourselves plus sharing so I made a little extra breakfast over their fire pit the first morning and they were really impressed and the next day we both cooked up tons more breakfast tacos for everyone, and so they put us on the grill for dinner too and I felt like so good for being a good guest

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‘I cannot thank you as I should, Bilbo, for this, and for all your past kindnesses,' said Frodo. 'Don't try!' said the old hobbit, turning round and slapping him on the back. 'Ow!' he cried. 'You are too hard now to slap! But there you are: Hobbits must stick together, and especially Bagginses. All I ask in return is: take as much care of yourself as you can, and bring back all the news you can, and any old songs and tales you can come by. I'll do my best to finish my book before you return. I should like to write the second book, if I am spared.'

Many feels about this section.

1. Frodo feeling like he needs to thank Bilbo for, I’m guessing, taking him in as a kid and raising him as his own. My heart.

2. Bilbo giving him a chainmail and immediately forgetting he did. On one hand, it’s a fine comedic moment, and it’s a good way of showing that Frodo’s clothes really do hide his chainmail very well, but on the other hand, as someone who has aging relatives, it... hits different. I don’t know if it’s intended that way or if I’m reading too much into it, but as Bilbo has only started visibly aging after he gave away the Ring, it has to be a shock for Frodo to suddenly see his adoptive father faltering and actually acting like an elderly person.

3. “Hobbits must stick together” could be the subtitle of this series, let’s be honest.

4. Can I say I absolutely love how all Bilbo asks of Frodo (apart from him being safe, obviously) is songs and tales? I love my nerd elderly hobbit.

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