Every day should be a holiday

Round 32: December 2035 (Summer)

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Trent Kirby is 65, Megan is 63, Claudia and Jacob are both 34, Daphne is 4 and Iris is 1.
(Finn and Victoria are both 34, Rebecca is 26, Nathan is 25, Caitlin is 12 and Keira is 4)

Narrated by Claudia Kirby

Since Daphne started pre-school, it's been just me and Iris at home during the week.

Iris doesn't spend as much of her time tearing around the house as Daphne did, so things are quiet around here most of the time.

At the moment though, all the kids are on school holidays, so Daphne is home with us too.

Daphne loved her first year at school but she was also happy for the beginning of holidays.

She's playing with her little sister as much as she can...


...and just being her usual tireless self.

I've been driving both girls down to the park recently. The weather has been so nice that it's a shame to keep them cooped up inside all day.

Last time we went, Finn had had the same idea and was down there with Keira.

Not only are Keira and Daphne cousins but they are also very close friends.

They were so excited to see each other when they weren't expecting to.

Keira is no match for Daphne's energy though.

Daphne is her father's daughter, through and through. Jacob takes her for a run with him every afternoon and she loves it.

Jacob is back on the day shift now and we're both hoping he can remain there for good.

He does still get called in sometimes, if he's needed in the middle of the night but it's nothing compared to the 6pm to 6am shifts he did when he first joined the fire service. I felt like I hardly ever saw him.

Jacob was working on Christmas Day last year but this year, he's taking just over a week's leave so we are guaranteed to have him at home with us.

We've even got to do the Christmas shopping together this year.

That's about the only part of Christmas we're permitted to plan. Mum takes over everything else. She's always been like that.

Dad knows this and he usually spends much of the lead-up to Christmas at the market.

It's really busy this time of year anyway, with everyone looking for the best produce for their holiday feasts.

Mum just likes everything in the house done her way. I wouldn't have minded helping out a little with the decorating but if she wants to slave over a hot stove all by herself in the summer, then she's welcome to it.

I never got into cooking, much to Mum's chagrin but I'm happy to taste test.

On Christmas Day, Caitlin was the only one allowed in the kitchen to cook with Mum.

She and Mum are the only ones in the family who are really interested anyway.

And I have to admit, they did an awesome job of it too. We all totally stuffed ourselves at lunch.

The kids decided to eat "later". Daphne got a new video game for Christmas and her cousins were very keen on testing it out.

I love how close my girls are with their cousins. Victoria and I always got along well with our cousin Josie but Josie was always kind of mean to Rebecca when she was a toddler.

She can take of herself now though, obviously. Rebecca isn't as big a family person as Victoria and I are, so we don't see her as often but she did come to Christmas lunch.

Her boyfriend Nathan is actually into that stuff more than she is, so she'll have to get used to it eventually, assuming they stay together.

Nathan has visited more than a few times but Dad only just put two and two together and figured out that he went to college with Nathan's father.

So of course, Dad had to be filled in on everything that was going on with Emil. He wants to catch up with Nathan's parents now.

Despite having five more weeks of vacation left, Keira and Daphne are already excited about starting kindergarten next year.

From looking at Finn, I could guess he'd been hearing plenty of that talk from Keira at home too!

We all had a pretty great day, even if some of us barely dragged ourselves away from the PlayStation.

The whole thing wrapped up by mid-afternoon; Finn and Victoria were due at his sister's place and Rebecca and Nathan were going to drop in and see his parents.

After a fairly hectic Christmas, I was looking forward to a quiet New Year at home but it looks like that might not happen. My ex and Jacob's former roommate, Amar, has invited us to his place for a party on New Year's Eve.

We broke up a long, long time ago and I'm past all that now but I still don't particularly want to spend my leisure time with him.

Jacob has promised me it won't be that bad and that if he's wrong, he'll take me right back home again. He just feels like that seeing we were invited, we should put in an appearance.

I believe him but I wish we didn't have to go in the first place. I'm not looking forward to it at all.

Extras:
I've shown these off on Tumblr already but if you missed them, some Sim-less pics of the made over Kirby Market.

The awesome signs are by Danielle at Crystal Creek and you can get them in English and Simlish here.

Since TS3 Pets came out, I've been paying more attention to pets in my TS2 game and I noticed how much of a typical dog Sadie is and what a cat Taffy is. There's too many people around, so Taffy went running off somewhere to hide and Sadie is right there in the midst of it all, just chilling! I love it!

Notes:

• Daphne looks so much like Jacob in that family portrait! I always knew she favoured him but it didn't strike me how much until I saw them in this picture. And she's so cute with Keira. I think I might be getting used to Keira's weird little face as well!
• I downloaded all this food clutter by Cassandre (I think?) and I was wishing for a bigger table so I could use it all! There's a reason why Rebecca and Nathan aren't eating in that picture of the table. ;) I moved the deco out of the way once I was done with the picture, so they didn't go hungry, lol.
• I don't know how many people I'll be able to fit into Amar's house for a party but I'm going to try, lol! I just checked his house this morning and the fridge problem I was having appears to have resolved itself, so yay. I was wondering if ignoring the problem for long enough would make it go away and apparently, that worked! ;)