First, thank you to everyone who reads these and bookmarks me as an artist, even though I'm nothing of the sort.  It encourages and inspires me to continue developing the lives of my Sims and creating their backstories, documenting their current lives, and plot the expected and unexpected for their futures.

It's been a while since I wrote a blog piece, as I've been getting comfortable (more and more) with Sims 2.  Fortunately I have all the expansion and stuff packs, so I can do a lot with my Sims.  I also have to thank everyone in the Forums for their advice and help as I run into difficulties with Sims 2.  Without their patient assistance I'd still be stuck with basic families and not know what to do with them.

I'm in the process now of recreating my Sims 1 families...really, after all the effort I put into them and all the stories I told about them, did you think I was just going to forget about them?  I now have an Old Town neighborhood set up in my game where I am slowly recreating the families.  Where before in Sims 1 I couldn't do anything about family connections except what I said about them, here in Sims 2 I can actually do what I said they did.  So, that is what I'm planning to do.  That means, though, that in some cases I'm going to have to start a generation (or two) back so as to actually create the familial relationships that existed in my Sims 1 families.  For example, Grant Stone nee Silver needs to have messed around with one young lady when he was a young man, and that lady would have to have a child, who would also have to have a child, who would then have a son named Brody who would grow into an adult before his mother remarried into the Hick family, giving Grant a great-grandson only a couple of years younger than his youngest.

So, as you can see, it's going to take a while.

Because it's going to be in a separate neighborhood, I'm going to divide this blog a little.  Anything having to do with my Sims 1 families will be preceded by the title "Old Town Tales."  Anything having to do with my current Sims 2 families--which right now are all in Belladonna Cove--will be preceded by the title "BC Chronicles."  If--no, when--I get started on the other neighborhoods, I'll do something similar.

Thank you again for your patience, and within the next couple of days, I should have a couple of BC Chronicles blogs posted about my families in Belladonna Cove.  I'm still trying to figure out how to tie together all the families in Old Town--some had multiple children, deaths and divorces and car accidents--so actual blood relationships are a little tricky.  I should get them done before summer, so please bear with me.

Thank you.