After the birth of Michael, things started going a bit more smoothly for my Hutterites. Jakob wound up writing two books, a Hutterian Brethren version of the Bible and a Hutterian book of hymns. After each sim reads the first skill books for Logic, Handiness, Cooking, Gardening, and Charisma, they read these two books, as these sims are supposed to be religious. As you can see here, Isaac has already completed all of those things and is already re-reading the Bible!:
https://i.imgur.com/WyzG9Ga.jpg
Of course, practical skills are also important. I'm trying to get all of the sims mastered in writing and logic, with the men also mastered in gardening and sculpting and the women also mastered in painting. Skill achievements are also important, but not as much as just mastering the skills themselves.:
https://i.imgur.com/ILfTvgY.jpg
As you can see, Paul is currently working on mastering sculpting!
https://i.imgur.com/w0zmx4H.jpg
Now, you would think that with it being the dead of winter and all, my sims would stay indoors when eating. But not Judith. Apparently, she likes eating outside, no matter if its snowing and freezing cold.
https://i.imgur.com/yhkjMJz.jpg
Picture of Isaac collecting a meteorite that landed on the Everglow Academy & Colosseum. On that note, I'm happy it wasn't bigger and didn't crash into the school or the starter lots, because I would've been in a very bad mood if that happened.
https://i.imgur.com/OAbECDe.jpg
Picture of John beginning to learn sculpting after he mastered logic and writing.
https://i.imgur.com/0dJesTL.jpg
After Isaac mastered logic and writing - meaning he could now move on to sculpting - I realized that Paul hadn't learned, or even mastered, the writing skill yet so I started him on that as well!
https://i.imgur.com/0juH4bb.jpg
And on a humorous note, the homeless sims staged a protest at City Hall about...crime rates, it seems. Which is actually rather funny, considering the fact that no one is employed in the criminal career whatsoever. (Not yet, anyways.)
https://i.imgur.com/J88NNLO.jpg
Well, almost all of the protesters were homeless. This one was not, but once again, why he's protesting crime rates/criminals when neither of those things exist in this world yet blows my mind.
https://i.imgur.com/VIpG9Mw.jpg
And here - finally - is a picture of Rebekah cuddling Michael, in order to make up for her completely disregarding him as soon as she got home from the hospital. (Yeah, she's not gonna live that down.)
https://i.imgur.com/NjcXOp2.jpg
And on an ending note, here's a picture of the town's repairman...repairwoman? I don't know. I do know, though, that the reason why you guys are getting a picture of her is because that she's been a thorn in my side ever since she first showed up to repair something. Why, you may ask?
Because she keeps getting the hots for all of the Hutterite men and keeps sending them love letters and gifts and stuff. That's why.
I really wanna reach into the computer and grab her by the shoulders and tell her that 1) all of the Hutterite men are married and 2) even if they weren't, Hutterites don't marry non-Hutterites.
Oh well, that's the sims for you.