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The Twining Legacy Decades Challenge

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#pinned #im trying to go for western for my 1890s blog theming but i fear its more mojo dojo casa house lol

BABIES. I do not take good birth pictures.

Welcome to the world Floyd and Laura, the second pair of boy-girl twins of the legacy. Yaaay playing infant twins. Yaaaay.

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In the day, Calvin and Alice followed Mell around like shadows. But they mostly babbled and played amongst themselves, and Mell remembered the bright side to multiples: you always have a friend to distract you from bothering mama.

As a result, Mell was able to focus a lot more on her chores, which she had begun to actually enjoy.

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Time passed, and the babies were able to pick themselves up and amble around. Calvin became a sweet, angelic little boy, whereas Alice was more on the inquisitive side.

With more babies on the way, Walter and Mell converted the other big upstairs room into a nursery. They spent many a hot summer day sheltered from the heat up here, listening to a show from their mama.

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Mell's spirits rose as spring became summer. On her daily walk, she got to know and befriend Mrs. Ida Lacey, the local schoolmistress.

Ida was an incredibly intelligent woman, and found that she more than tolerated, but respected Mell's audaciousness. She found it very modern. On her end, Mell just liked to ask Ida about various bugs around the garden.

Mell also picked up a guitar made of reclaimed wood from the local store, and began to re-teach herself guitar. Between this and her diaries, Mell found that she didn't have to lose herself or her interests in being a mother.

She also made peace with her children, although she still had her doubts. This was in no small part due to Walter being much more active a parent than her father was to her, cementing their commitment further.

Indeed, it seemed that Mell had come to terms with, even embraced motherhood. Which is good. Because she immediately got pregnant again.

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Those early days with the twins were chaotic, and both were up at the oddest hours of the night. Though both were apprehensive, it was Walter who got over his fears and was able to bond with his children first. It didn't hurt that they both looked exactly like him.

Mell, however, still felt her resentments and doubts. She loved her children, but she knew that--as supportive as Walter was--she would be their primary caregiver. Mell feared she lacked the patience, and didn't feel ready to lose herself in motherhood.

To cope with her stress, Mell became an avid diarist, venting her frustrations and feelings about the world around her. She did this in the privacy of their new upstairs bedroom.

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"Two of them, huh?" "Looks like." "And you're saying it's...usually going to be two of them?" "Maybe more than two. I'm one of three." "Mmm. Huh. Kinda funny that our surname is 'Twining', then." "Ha! You know, I've never thought about that!"

Welcome to the word Alice and Calvin Twining.

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Mary Ellen entered her third trimester, and felt absolutely huge. She found it hard to do much more than her daily activities, and began skipping shopping and church until the babies arrived.

To her surprise, late in her pregnancy, Mrs. Edith James stopped by. She had noticed the Twining's absences from church, and wanted to check up on her, strange as she may be.

Mell was ecstatic to have a visitor! She made them coffee, and picked Edith's brain about homesteading, motherhood, and how to cook things without burning it.

Edith tried to hide her surprise when she saw how well-kept the home was. She had lived her entire life in Chestnut Ridge, and had always known this house to be abandoned and dilapidated. Clearly, she had underestimated the strange Mrs. Twining, with her unkempt ponytail and man's cowboy hat.

At some point, Walter silently sat with the two, and started cross-stitching, one of his hobbies. Edith was confident she had never seen a man do this, and Mell reacted as if it were nothing!

It was clear to Mrs. James that this coupling was, indeed, strange. Walter moved with a quiet coyness, whereas Mell moved with a puckish confidence--not "becoming", let's say, of either gender. But it was also clear to Mrs. James that she loved the Twinings. They were the most interesting family in town.

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Walter traveled the countryside alone that night on Harrison, and considered fatherself. He had not always wanted a family, and pictured himself alone for a lifetime. Mell had been a surprise, and of course he wanted to have children with her. But his lonely childhood and his lack of a father figure made him insecure in his abilities.

But as the evening waned into morning, and he felt calmedby the cool air, he did resolve his misgivings. He was raised lovingly, and had the chance to start a family he never had.

Still, he took advantage of the childless life while he could.

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Mell waited to tell Walter, somewhat in denial until he had his own suspicions. He was frustrated--he, too, did not expect this so quickly, and while he obviously didn't blame her for the pregnancy, finding out midway through meant he was woefully unprepared. They had to furnish a nursery...make cloth diapers...buy more food!

It was their first ever fight.

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In time, their chronic intimacy caught up with them, and Mell could not deny the sudden growth of her stomach: she was pregnant.

A baby. Two babies, probably, given her genetic curse...maybe three. Mell and Walter had wanted children, planned for them, but she felt as though they were so young, just barely scraping the beginning of their lives. In modern terms, motherhood scared her shitless.

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Spring went on, and the Twinings quickly fell into a routine of early-morning hard labor, and late nights of leisure and intimacy. They both knew this privacy wouldn't be forever...especially given their nightly activities.

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Walter took to his new life with gusto, loving tending to the plants and the animals.

Mary Ellen, less so--she had always hated cooking, and was quick to screw up a simple recipe. Luckily for her (and Walter), one thing she did like was putting out fires.

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The Twinings only had the funds to furnish the first floor, and modestly at that. But they did not mind the scarcity, distracted instead by the thrill of their newlywed activities.

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The Twinings rode into town a day after their arrival, seeking new furnishings (Walter) and new friends (Mell). Several of the town's ladies took this time of the day to shop, and were curious about these newcomers.

Mell made a strange first impression. The women of Chestnut Ridge didn't know what to make of her plucky Irish-Northeastern accent, her giddy recounts of their horrible journey, or her long hair unkemptly laid down her back.

But Mell was too sweet--perhaps too naive--to notice the women found her odd, and it eventually won over the charms of Edith James, who helped her husband run the clothing store. She also acquainted with Ida Lacey, the town's schoolmistress, although Ida seemed in a morose mood.

Walter, in between buying bits and bobbles, just tended to their horses--Harrison and Caroline--finding them much calmer company.

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Mary Ellen "Mell" Twining, nee Murphy, is one of the founders of the Twining Legacy. She is a childish, adventurous, and creative Sim, who's lifetime goal is to be a Super Parent.

Mary Ellen was born in a family of Irish immigrants, living in a small San Myshuno flat, smack dab in the middle of nine children. The oft-forgotten middle child, Mell spent most of her time raising her younger siblings in between acts of teenage rebellion. She had given her parents a hard time, bawking at ladylike sensibilities and refusing sensible marriage proposals.

It was only Walter Twining, the stoic, silent traveler that caught Mell's eye, and her parents were so pleased that they didn't even mind her traveling so far away.

Mell was happy here, so far. She loved an adventure, loved the open air of the rancher life, loved Walter. But one worry niggled at the back of her mind, always popping up when Walter discussed starting a family: her unfortunate genetic curse.

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Walter Twining is one of the founders of the Twining legacy. He is a bookworm, rancher, and loner, and his lifetime goal is to be a Freelance Botanist.

As an infant, Walter was abandoned at the home of Widow Alice Twining, a childless woman who was more than happy to take the boy in. He spent his childhood educated in the solitude of a small, Willow Creek ranch, resisting the curiosity he had of his real parentage.

After the widow died, Walter had planned to take her inheritance west, but he had always expected to do it alone. An impromptu visit to San Myshuno, however, threw him into the arms of Mary Ellen Murphy, a loud-mouthed and boisterous girl that swept Walter off his feet.

Now, here he was. Here they were.

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