Fiji baby

Round 31: May 2033 (Autumn)

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Kimberly Carmody is 62, Nick Moretti is 30, Sarah is 28, Thomas is 2 and Ryan is 1.
(Susannah is 23 and Lucy is 18)

Narrated by Sarah Moretti

A few months ago, Mama finally hired somebody to help out at the salon. I'm hoping that Lucy will eventually be able to take over a little and give Mama some days off every now and then. She works too hard.

At the moment, Mama is still there 7 days a week: full days during the week and mornings on the weekends.

Lucy is apparently very good but she's not quite ready to be left in charge without Mama around.

When Mama does finally slow down, she can spend some more time with Thomas and Ryan.

She's so content just being with the family and I do think she's looking forward to at least semi-retiring one day.

I guess I'm biased but Nick and I have produced two unbelievably adorable and sweet little boys. Thomas especially is such a charmer! He was all over Susannah's new boyfriend Sam when they came to visit.

Luckily, Sam was happy to get down on the floor and play with Thomas for a while. He quite likes kids. I don't think Susannah would be with a guy who didn't.

I've been waiting for Susannah and Sam to finally get together for a while now. He's been after her since she broke up with Greg but Susannah has been a bit wary. His persistence has paid off though, obviously.

Mama didn't seem so keen on Sam. She takes a while to warm up to people sometimes though and hopefully, that's all it is.

Sam's persistence might pay off again with Mama, eventually. I have to say, she was a little rude to him at times but he didn't let it faze him.

Personally, I'm so happy for Susannah. Sam seems like a really great guy and that's what she deserves.

It's a new relationship and she's still in that gushy stage but I have my fingers crossed for them.

I think Susannah wants to be a younger mum, like me, so I kind of hope that Sam is "the one" for her.

Having kids has been the best decision Nick and I ever made and I can't wait for Susannah to experience that one day.

We have much less time to spend together one on one now - we're often interrupted the second we get a minute alone.

But we manage and having the boys has been worth it.

Having Thomas and Ryan so close together hasn't been quite as insane as you might assume it would be.

We've been lucky that Ryan is such a good little baby.

He slept through the night from quite early on and he hardly ever cries.

Though he has his cranky moments, like any other baby.

Thomas was very similar to Ryan as a baby but he's walking now, he's a little more challenging!

Thank goodness he's more interested in his toys than splashing around in the toilet or pulling the dog's ears.

But lately, I'm still completely worn out after spending all day with him. Taking care of an active two year-old is exhausting at the best of times but I just feel like collapsing these days.

I knew I didn't quite feel right so I told Nick I thought I might be pregnant.

I think Nick thought I was nuts. Ryan was planned but since then, I've been on birth control.

But I just knew. I've been pregnant enough over the past three years to know what it feels like. The morning sickness I've been having is a big clue. So I took a test.

I had the results confirmed at the doctor's and as I suspected, I was right; I'm pregnant and due in February.

I was expecting to hear those results but it still took a minute to sink in once Cara actually said it.

Nick was stunned when I told him but really excited. He's been trying to convince me to go off my birth control again for a while now. He would love it if all our kids were as close together as Thomas and Ryan are.

I'm a bit more apprehensive. I mean, once this baby gets here, we'll have a newborn and two toddlers. That sounds a little overwhelming.

But my biggest worry is my career. I have a Master's degree and I should be higher up now than I actually am but maternity leave really slows you down.

I just finished my maternity leave with Ryan this month and I feel so out of practice with everything. Now I'll need to take more time off again.

Nick suggested we try something different with leave this time. I could take off as much time as I want or need to and then when I'm ready to go back, Nick can stay home with the kids for a while.

It sounded like a good idea to me but I wanted to make sure it would actually be possible and that it was something Nick really wanted to do.

Nick said he'd love to try it and that he doesn't think it'd be a problem with work. Another guy in his unit did the same thing when his wife had a baby and wanted to go back to work right away.

I don't want to go back to work right away but I love the idea that I can go back after maybe a few months and still know that the baby is at home with one of us, rather than a nanny or something.

It's put to rest at least one of my worries about having a third so soon after our second.

Notes:

• Title is from Fiji Baby by Goodshirt.
• Sam's first appearance was in Susannah's junior year and we saw him again in Susannah's last update. Sam's been quite keen for a while, so I'm sure he's happy.
• This baby was most definitely not planned - it was another BC failure, just like with Ione and Evan. It actually happened quite literally seconds after Ryan was born. Once the baby arrived, that was the first thing Nick and Sarah decided to do. Sims! Anyway, I figured it would be extremely unlikely for a woman to get pregnant so soon after giving birth, especially if she was on birth control, so poor Sarah has been frozen in a perpetual first trimester since then!
• Sarah is a Family/Fortune Sim, so she feels a conflict between wanting to be at home and wanting to be at work that someone like Claudia (Pleasure/Family) doesn't feel at all. Sarah has had the want for a promotion locked for quite a while now and she still hasn't fulfilled it. Nick is way up near the top of his career anyway, so he won't mind taking a break as much.
• These BC failures are making it hard for me to go easy on the babies this round, like I said I was going to! But if Sarah has a boy, I'll forgive ACR. ;) Then I'll be one step closer to my four boy family!