dunno if this will work but it's worth giving it a go to edit town click on your household move them out and back in or go to edit town click on your household save a copy to the libiary delete the one that appears in the clipboard top left then move the family back in from the libiary
now I build the house and already furnished it, if I do this would I have to worry about the houses furnishings not being there any more?
They should be still there. No worries.
You can also backup the house to the library to be extra sure. Go to edit town and save the house.
Okay first off thank you, that seemed to work. I have another problem, I had uninstalled and redownloaded and installed The Sims 3 and all it's expansions, because before my game would keep freezing and sometimes it would crash, when I started playing before the issue with the grandmother not picking up the toddler the game ran smoothly. Now the game is running not so smoothly, it keeps freezing up, it has yet to crash, but why does it keep freezing up on me???
Try resetting all your Sims in your town with resetsim *
To do so
This should put all your sims and animals to a safe location.
You might have a stuck Sim somewhere
Here's some more tips: http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-3/FAQ-Lags-amp-Freezes/td-p/646
