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Sul Sul, my siblings in Christ!!!!! I can’t believe it’s been ten years since my last update!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have SO MUCH to share!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FIRST: we moved!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! God has blessed Jeb with promotions, and PTL we were able to upgrade!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I won’t go through the whole house, but there’s a very special room I want to mention!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! When we bought the house, it came with a small nursery off of the master bedroom, which is just silly!!!!!!!!!!!! Imagine my daughters having to go through Jeb and I’s room every time the baby cries!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So we put the baby in the hallway outside the girl’s room and converted the baby room to a Jesus Room!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My little sister, Hannah, swears by them!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now, instead of a small part of a hallway, we have an entire room to worship God and repent for our sins!!!!!!!!!!!!! How Godly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And speaking of babies, I will of course share how my Godly quiver has changed over the years!!!!! Some arrows had to be shot off into the world to spread God’s glory and grow quivers off their own, but there’s always a fresh and adorable little arrow to replace them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Winona and Veronica got married to their now-husbands!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Of course, Xavier got married as well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! His so-called “bride” chose to dress as some freak from Satan’s forest rather than a modest and pure daughter of the Lord at the wedding, but now that’s Xavier’s problem!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yvette and Zinnia had some troubles finding husbands, so they signed up for our church’s Making Christ-Centered Couples program!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MCCC helps Godly young men and women find their Godly match, and through God’s glorious love powers He matched my daughters up with Dustin and Archer Goth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Unfortunately, Tanny refused to attend Yvette’s wedding because Archer Goth allegedly bullied him, but Tanny was clearly just being overdramatic and unreasonable!!!!!!!!!!!!! If something was wrong, I would have been told, and Tanny has never, ever said anything to me!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well, they can duke it out at the Pearly Gates!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As you can see, Zinnia took half the cats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She took Bible, Angel, God’s Mercy, and God’s Love while Gregory kept God’s Might, God’s Light, God’s Grace, and God’s Will!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Of course, none of them are kittens anymore!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Aaron isn’t my first son to leave at 18 with no girlfriend, but I pray he will be the last!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don’t know what your life has in store, Aaron, but Mama will be praying for you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(a/n: He’s the property of are-they-all-sims now lmao. Given away like cattle, God bless 🙏 )

Bethany met and married Josiah Hays!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Although I STRONGLY discouraged her from wearing that slutty eyeliner, her headship allowed it so now she wears the Devil’s paint on her face every day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So sad :(

Naturally, Bethany moved just two houses down from Winona!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hear their kids are growing up close, which is just wonderful!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Family is the most important thing in life after God, after all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Clara found a fellow Technophobe, Thaddeus Charm, and they married!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They moved away to the country, where they live such a sweet little farmer life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I’ll stop here to keep this post as trim as a Godly lady’s waistline ;) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Next up: the blessings still at home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I received the most exciting phone call from Jeb this afternoon!!!! Jeb never calls, so I was quite worried at first!!!! Jeb explained that a “special event” was going to happen this afternoon, and told me he approved it entirely!!!! I begged Jeb to tell me more, but he refused because he knew that, as a woman, I would gab and spoil it for everyone!!! A truly Godly leader knows when to put the needs of his family over the wants of his wife, and Jeb was a wonderful example of that today!!!

Fortunately, we didn’t have to wait long!!! Just an hour or so after Jeb called, Winona’s sweetheart dropped by “for a visit”!!!!! As if that would fool anyone!!!! Of course, it’s rude to say so, so we played along and pretended we didn’t suspect anything!!!! He asked to take Winona for a “casual hike”, and I was only too happy to agree!!!

Of course, the girls wanted to help Winona get dressed!!! Every woman loves fashion and dress up, especially for such an occasion!!! After all, it’s not every day a girl knows she’s going to be proposed to before it happens!!!! Winona looked stunning, and no doubt she will be the best looking girl on the hiking trail!!!

There’s nothing more romantic than a proposal surrounded by nature, and I’m thrilled Winona got to experience it!!! I asked Winona if there were plans to come back to Granite Falls for the wedding, but she told me no!!!! Perhaps one of Winona’s younger siblings will want to come back here, L.O.L.!!!!

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Finding a rental lot with room for three adults, seven girls, five boys, two boy toddlers and a girl toddler was almost impossible!!! After much prayer, the Lord led us to this cabin!!! We managed to squeeze in enough beds for everyone except one boy, so I told my sons to decide which of them had to sleep in the hallway!!

Instead of having a calm discussion, they argued!!

As a woman, my natural instinct was to correct them and quote Bible verses that preach love and harmony, but fortunately we had a strong man to teach true wisdom!!!

Barney commanded attention, so as is God’s natural way the women were silent and the men attentive!! He told us that there is masculine, Godly strength in aggression and fighting, as it is God’s will that men be our warriors and our leaders!!! So instead of stopping the fight, he told them to go find sticks and fight in the backyard, and the first man down will sleep in the hallway!!!

To my horror, Winona asked if was fair to pit a 16 year old against a 7 year old!! A woman should never question a man’s decision, especially when that man is an older relative!!! Barney was clearly slighted by her rudeness, but had the grace to tell her that the fight was fair because the triplets made up for their small size through numbers!! When he was done speaking - and not a second before!!! - I took Winona aside and reminded her of her place in such conversations!!!

Gregory lost the fight, so we put his mattress next to the stairs!! I’m sure this will be a wonderful lesson in being grateful to the Lord for providing him a bed at all!!!! Amen!!!

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Today, Winona sat us down and made a horrible request!!!! I knew she and Frank often SimTimed each other, but I would never have guessed it would lead to her wanting to visit him!!! Sin Myshuno is a godless city full of heathens and I would never, ever entertain the idea of letting one of my delicate little girls step foot in there!!! Sin City has stopped my boys from starting families, and if strong men like Christian and Frank struggle in such a Godless place, what chance would my daughters have?!

As a holy woman, Winona bowed her head and accepted our judgement. God wants women to be submissive and obedient to the will of the man of the house, and I’m proud to see Winona obey His commands!!! Practicing what she preaches is why she’s such a wonderful example of true Godly femininity!!!!

Afterwards, she took me aside and asked why I allow Christian and Frank to stay in such a horrible place. I must admit I never intended to - time flies fast with so many little ones grabbing my attention!!! But Winona is right - as their mother, I need to bring God back into the hearts of my older sons and direct them to the path He wants them to travel on!!!

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Jeb may be at work most days, but as the man he is still the head of the house!!! I’m proud to say that my boys understand this very well!!! Aaron had a request, and he brought it straight to Jeb in the morning: he wants us to go camping!!!

Jeb is far from an outdoorsy man, so he didn’t want to go at all!! But he doesn’t see that as a reason to stop everyone else from having fun!!! Of course, the kids and I need a man to guide and lead us, so Jeb asked his father if he would like to go instead!!! Barney was only too happy to agree to take his grandkids (and me!!!) out to Granite Falls for a week!! He’s getting closer to meeting the Lord every day, so it’s important that he bonds with all his grandkids before he leaves for Heaven!!!!

We took this wonderful picture after we arrived!!! From left to right: Elijah (red), Xavier (gray), Flynn (white), Barney Senior, Gregory (purple), John Junior (teal),  Aaron (blue), Bethany (green), Keith (yellow), Sally Jo, Clara (red), Winona (yellow), Louise (brown), Deborah (gray), me, Holy (white), Veronica (orange), and Ida (pink)!!

Of course, one of us ladies had to stay behind to look after Jeb, the pets, and our home!!! It couldn’t be me, because I have to look after the toddlers, so it had to be one of my four teenage daughters!!! I thought they would have to fight over it, but Yvette and Zinnia were quick to offer themselves!!! Yvette abhorred the thought of camping and Zinnia was extremely worried about the cats!!! I told Zinnia Yvette would take good care of them, but she insisted anyways!! What a nurturing heart she has!!!

PTL for arranging this, and I look forward to a Godly week reconnecting with His Earth and the family He gave us!!! Amen!!!

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So proud of Winona!!! She’s started a vlog!!! It’s focused on how to live a life that honors God when you’re a teen girl in a secular world!!! She makes advice videos and videos on day-to-day life!!!

It feels like forever since Christian was in that very spot, preaching to the online internets!!! If he could see her now, he’d be so proud!!! I should send him an imail to tell him about it!!! Perhaps Winona can show me how to make clicking the words play the video!!!

When Naomi left, I wondered if that would be the end of our photo wall, but then it turns out she gave Xavier her camera!!! He’s taken to it wonderfully and I look forward to all the memories he’ll capture!!!

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Apologies, my siblings in Christ!!! With everything that’s been going on, I forgot to share my three newest blessings with you all!!!

First we have adorable little Ulysses!!! He’s already a toddler - time flies by so fast!!!!

Next we have my TWIN girls!!!! Their names are Veronica and Winona!!! They aren’t even a year old yet, but I already know they’ll live lives that honor God!!! Amen!!!

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Vacations are no excuse to be lazy!!! A woman has many jobs, and one of the most important ones is making sure a hot breakfast is on the table when her men wake up!!!! Ladies, your men expect and deserve a stress-free vacation, and making sure he doesn’t wait for food is crucial!!!! That’s  why me, my mother in love, and a few of my sweet daughters woke up before dawn!!! If we slept in like the men, breakfast would have been a disaster!!! PTL for blessing me with such diligent daughters!!! Amen!!!!

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The boys may have domain over the grill, but us ladies have domain over the kitchen!!! When the sun started setting, a small group of us girls worked on making dinner with the fish our boys caught!!!! This is the natural, harmonious roles of men and women as designated by Him, and it works perfectly!!!!

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PTL!!! Two new courtships!!!

Yesterday evening, young Randy Rosa stopped by our home and asked permission to court Veronica!!! We know him from church, so of course we approved!!!

Another wonderful church boy, Ashton Hillman, stopped by today to ask permission to court Winona!!! Of course, Jeb said yes!!!

Congratulations to both of our new couples!!! I’ll be praying for wedding bells soon, L.O.L.!!!!

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Winona truly has a heart for helping!!! After she heard about Yvette, she made a video on what real Godly beauty looks like: a trim figure and a servant’s heart!!! Of course, she’s also taken the time to speak with Yvette directly!! Sisters are the best friends God chose for you, and it warms my heart to see them embrace that!!! After all, if they only socialize with each other then they’re guaranteed to be surrounded by other God-fearing women!!!

Of course, the glory of sisterhood is that you can guide and nurture the little ones you’re too old to be friends with!! Yvette truly has a mothering soul and loves to look after her baby sisters!! At this rate, she might be mothering them more than I do, L.O.L.!!! (a/n: all of your kids mother them more than you do)

On the other side, Tanny and Xavier have a strong brotherhood!!! Xavier is usually at home playing piano, but sometimes the two will fish together!!! I was a little worried for Xavier, born in the middle of four girls, but I’m glad he found a brother to bond with!!! I just hope Xavier will get along with Ulysses or Aaron once Tanny’s moved away!!!

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I had no idea Quimberly had a girlfriend, much less a fiancee, but here we are!! All of my other children tell me Quasimodo and Holly Spencer-Kim-Lewis have been dating for a while, which is a relief to hear! Marriage is forever and unbreakable, so it’s important that Quagmire makes sure he’s eternally committing himself to a Godly woman that will honor Him!! Amen!! 

As I was watering the garden, Tanny came to me with a strange concern!! He’s convinced that, because technology was never mentioned in the Bible, it’s of the Devil and we should get rid of our tvs and phones!! I told him he was being ridiculous!! He insisted, so I told him he would have to speak with Jeb if he wants an actual decision. As a mother, it’s my duty to advise and raise my children, but as the wife I’m forbidden to make big rules like that!

Winona and Bethany are just angels!!

Bethany’s so excited for the new baby that she’s knitting little clothes for him or her!! So far it’s only beanies and socks (nothing in pink, in case it’s a boy!!), but I’m sure that one day she can knit little onesies as well!!!

Winona is being such a wonderful mentor!! She’s teaching Bethany the finer points of knitting, and films the entire time so that other young women can learn along!! I’m so proud of her!!!

On the more manly side, Oliver is becoming a mentor himself!! He loves to scream at Ulysses while he’s working out, and Aaron loves to watch so he can get tips from his big brothers!!! Oliver is quite the leader, and I can’t wait until he finally finds a nice girl to lead as a headship!!! I keep asking him about it, but he always brushes me off rudely!! Pray for him!!!

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Is there anything so sweet as sisters bonding?? Veronica sings while Winona films, and the videos are so cute!!!!

Of course, nothing in the world is better than learning about our Lord and Savior!!! After home school, Xavier goes right back to the books!!! He’s like a little Daniel, except not as paranoid and less prone to doomsaying!!!

Naomi’s bees are coming along!!! We’ve still lost money buying that, but it’s nice to see Naomi think she’s saving the bees :-)

She’s such a huge help with the littles!!!! As soon as Bethany turned two, Naomi taught her how to walk!!!

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You would think that, after all the times I’ve lectured him, Shane would stop playing with dolls!! It breaks my heart to see him go down such a feminine path, especially when every time we correct him he cries and yells that he hates us!!! I know God will sometimes give us trials through our children, but Shane is another level!!!

Sweet little Winona has taken up knitting!!! It’s such a calm, feminine way to make pocket change and I’m glad she’s doing it!! Our family will certainly be warm this winter, L.O.L.!!!

Veronica also likes to stay inside. but just to watch TV!!! She needs a hobby, and I’ll have to talk to her about getting one!!!

As soon as Jeb came home, Ulysses begged him to let him adopt a stray he’s befriended recently!!! A dog is a very big responsibility, so Jeb told Ulysses he’s pray about it!!

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Where do you go from Z? Back to A!!! God blessed me with a little boy, so I named him Aaron!!! My last A baby was a graceful and feminine woman of God, and this time it’s a strong and masculine man of God!!!! I can already tell he’ll be as manly as Ann was womanly!!!

I worry for poor Lovell!! He and Moony Caliente have been the only consistent members of Eyes of God!!!! At this point, there aren’t any musically inclined Christian teen boys left to recruit!!! Lovell insists that’s fine and he can make it by himself, but it’s still disappointing to see him refuse to get along with anybody but Moony (and frankly, those two barely get along!!!)!!!

Little Winona has taken an interest in exercise, so naturally she asked strong, athletic Oliver for advice!! Instead of helping, he put her through training dramatically unfit for little girls and insulted her the whole time!!! My poor little baby was in tears!!!!

I had a very firm discussion with him afterwards!!! He mocked the both of us and said that girls were too weak for “real” exercise!! While it’s true that women are much weaker than men and shouldn’t be pursuing extreme exercise, it’s also true that God wants us to pursue a moderate and healthy amount of exercise so we can stay trim and attractive to our husbands!!! Winona being too feminine and delicate for the monkey bars doesn’t mean she should never go on a jog!!! Oliver was just being cruel, and I’ll make sure Jeb has an even firmer talk with him!!!