Someday soon

Round 30: May 2031 (Autumn)

Nick's last update/last update/next update

Kimberly Carmody is 60, Nick Moretti is 28 and Sarah is 26.
(Caleb is 49, Abigail is 48, Jesse is 46 and Cara is 42)

Narrated by Nick Moretti

Before I moved in, I didn't realise Kimberly worked as much as she does. She's at the salon about 10 hours a day and even works on the weekends sometimes.

She's on her feet all day, so it's tiring but I don't know if she'll ever give it up completely. She prefers it to staying home. She gets lonely in the house when Sarah and I are at work and she likes interacting with all of her customers.

Kimberly's made friends with a lot of her regulars, including my mum. They met at the wedding and Mum decided to start going to Kimberly for her hair.

Once the baby comes, she's planning on stepping back and spending more time at home. When Sarah goes back to work, Kimberly wants to watch the baby at home for a couple of days a week.

I don't think we're going to have trouble finding a babysitter for the other days. My parents and step-parents are all eagerly anticipating the baby as well.

It wasn't always this way but both sides of my family get along well enough that we can all get together frequently. I'm looking forward to keeping it up when the baby comes but I guess we'll see how we go.

Dad has finally got over becoming a grandfather before 50 and is now doling out the advice.

Mum and Dad raised me while Mum was in college, with little help from anyone else. Sarah and I are in a completely different situation, so I hope parenthood isn't too much of a shock to the system.

Mum just keeps asking me what names we've chosen. We shouldn't have told her we'd decided, because she won't let up now. She's dying to know.

All I've told her is that if it's a boy, we'll have some kind of tribute to my grandfather in there and for a girl, we'll honour Betsy somehow.

Sarah and I have been having a lot of fun shopping for baby stuff. There's only one baby store around here but luckily, they have a decent range and the prices are fair.

We chose not to find out the sex, so we're trying to stick with neutral colours for the nursery.

Boy or girl, this kid's nursery is going to have everything he or she will need and a lot they won't as well.

We finally finished the nursery and it turned out great. It's all ready for the baby.

Sarah is due any day now and she only just stopped working.

Her boss was really generous and offered her maternity leave a lot earlier but Sarah waited until a couple of weeks ago to start it.

She took a position on the hood council, so she's felt like she's been a bit behind at work and wanted to catch up completely before she left.

Sarah loves her job and I think she's missing it a little. But it's nice to get such a warm reception when I get home. I usually get home a few hours before she does.

I think Sarah stopped working at just the right time. She was coping with it really well for a long time but near the end, she was finding it pretty exhausting.

Sarah is very health-conscious and she didn't want to use pregnancy as an excuse to slack off on exercise. She's been swimming every day since she stopped working.

I was a bit worried about it at first and thought maybe she should take it easy with the exercise.

But Sarah assured me that she'd run everything by Cara before she started, so she had a doctor's seal of approval. I couldn't really argue with that.

As soon as we found out Sarah was pregnant, we knew we wanted Cara to take care of Sarah and the baby. She's my stepmother, so we obviously know her really well but she's also a fantastic doctor.

She's been so good with addressing any concerns we've had throughout the pregnancy. Thankfully, we haven't had any real cause to worry; everything has gone really smoothly.

We've been excited all the way through but it's still a little hard to believe that we're about to be parents!

The last few ultrasounds have been so clear and detailed though that it's now kind of hard to deny it! It's amazing to think that soon enough, we'll be holding that little person in our arms.

Sarah's pregnancy seems like it's gone by so fast but now that her due date is only a few days away, time feels like it's really dragging. We can't wait to meet our baby.

Extra:

A full shot of the architecture office. Small and functional - my Master of Architecture students need to complete some drafts as a part of their degree and this gives them a place to do that.

Notes:

• Title is from Someday Soon by Wilco.
• I completely redid this house a little while ago. It was furnished exactly the same way as it was when Sarah's grandparents moved in, so it was time for a change.
• I always think it's silly that Sims take their maternity leave before they have the baby, so I tend to make my pregnant Sims go to work. Save the maternity leave for when you'll actually have something to do with your time!
• Everyone gets along freakishly well in this family. All the in-laws have wants to be friends with each other, if they're not friends already.
• Nick was very close to his grandfather Filippo (he was the first grandchild, so there was a special bond there), so I thought it was fitting that Nick would want to put a little nod to him in there, if they have a boy. With Sarah's mum Betsy dying so suddenly, a tribute to her if it's a girl seemed like a nice idea too.
• I'm about to go into the game right now and let Sarah have the baby (and Asha, who is also due). Birthdays post should be up tomorrow!