#fall2

From Ashley Rogers' Diary

I'm seventeen, and I can't wait until I can get out of my parents' trailer. I feel so trapped here! Everyone looks the same, everyone thinks the same, everyone tells me what to do, how I have to think, how I have to be, and I just can't take it anymore. My parents say that I'm under their authority until I get married, but I don't want to get married. Look what my sisters got when they got married! More work, more babies, more people they need to please. I don't want that. I feel like I'm breaking.

Acklay Miller is the only one from church who understands me. I don't care that everyone at church thinks he's trouble, he's the only one who understands and we hang out when my parents make me go to church and to Youth Group. I just need one single person who doesn't talk about the Watcher all day every day!

Sneaking out at night into nightclubs gives me this tiny bit of freedom, but it's not enough. It's just not enough. I feel a bit better when boys give me attention and buy me drinks, but it's not enough. And when I go back home after a night away it hurts even more to be trapped again. But I don't want to stop.

"It's SO UNFAIR that the Evans are leaving! I want to keep my best friend!"

"It's horrible! Kathryn and Angelica were always babysitting and now I'll never be able to get away!"

"And I won't have anyone to play with! Sharon is a baby and you and Baker are always busy!"

"Spending time with Daisy King is just not the same, she's such a bitch! At least Kathryn and Angelica were nice!"

"Chels, you're not supposed to say bitch!"

From Martha Matthews' Prayer Journal

"Thank you for throwing a going away party for us, it was great to get together with everyone one last time."

"Saddest party ever, but..."

"Yeah."

"Anything else you need?"

"No, no, we're all ready to leave for San My tomorrow morning. Everything is packed, the house is clean... the only thing left is saying goodbye. That's the hardest part."

"For me, too. You have my address, and my number, and my e-mail... if there is anything you need, anything at all I can help with, and if it's only by listening for a bit, do not hesitate. Your family was here for us when we moved here all heartbroken, and I don't... I don't want you to be alone."

"Thank you... that means a lot to me. Because I have no idea how I'm going to do it, taking care of mom and Lincoln and working and..."

"You'll do it one step at a time, and one day at a time. That makes it manageable. But I have complete faith in you. You've got this."

Kathryn: "Mom, Lincoln, I've found us a new place!"

Lincoln: "But why do we have to move?"

Kathryn: "Because this house is too expensive for us, and because only soldiers are allowed to live on the base."

Lincoln: "That is so unfair!"

Kathryn: "Anyway, I've found us a new place that we're able to afford... it's an apartment in San Myshuno."

Angelica: "San Myshuno! But why! I've lived my whole life here, I can't leave now!"

Lincoln: "NO! You can't do that! All my friends are here!"

Kathryn: "It's the only place we can afford... houses are expensive."

Angelica: "Are you quite sure? Maybe you can get a second job?"

Kathryn: "Even with a second job the budget doesn't work out. I'm so sorry... it's the only way."

Lincoln: "I HATE you! You're the worst big sister EVER!"

From the Matthews Family Simstagram

Coming to Newcrest was not only the right decision spiritually for our family, but also financially! My dear Michael has finally left the mailroom behind and has been promoted to Office Assistant, an invaluable employee at the Watcher-honoring company in San Myshuno that he's working at! I am so blessed to have a husband who has a real job with excellent pay and benefits, a wonderful provider who will make sure that our children will always have everything they need! Of course, working in an office is hard and sometimes when he comes home he's in a bad mood, but the baby we're expecting and the little ones we already have always manage to cheer him back up!

From the Matthews Family Simstagram

Later in the night of this tumultuous day, I went into labor and shortly after, Michael and I welcomed our next TWO babies into the world! We are overjoyed to raise our two new daughters Morgan and Mackenzie Matthews the way the Watcher wants us to, and we're excited to get to know them in the coming seasons! We now have seven children, a feat some families in the congregation have not managed at all, and feel truly blessed to be their parents!

From the Payne Family Simstagram

With me being busy nesting before the little one arrives and cleaning everything I can reach, I've allowed Aaron and Jason to go to the library by themselves. I really wouldn't feel comfortable only sending Jason, but Aaron is already such a big boy and almost a teen! He still loves doing the fall crafts they offer at the library though, while Jason reads the biggest books he can find! Such a silly little genius, that one!