Static age

Round 36: August 2043 (Winter)

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Lake Draper is 86 and Kendal is 67. 
(Rose and Joanna are 48, Rob is 42, Patience is 41, Chris is 28,  Veronica is 26, Sylvia is 17, Levi and Will are 11)

Narrated by Lake Draper

Kendal is retired now and I couldn’t be happier about it. 

For years, it’s been just me at home during the day and then just me and Rudy.

Rudy is a great dog but he’s really not a match for human companionship. I used to get a bit bored.

But now that Kendal isn’t working any more, that’s all over. No more lonely days, no more rushed mornings. We’ve got the whole day and night to ourselves.

We can actually do things together now and we’ve definitely been taking advantage of that. It’s been a lot of fun.

Kendal has a new-found appreciation for Rudy as well. I mostly just let him do his thing but Kendal’s been teaching him tricks.

She has him quite well-trained at this point!

In the future, we want to take a trip or two together, which we haven’t done a whole lot of. 

I don’t care where we go, so I’m going to let Kendal pick the destination. She’s still trying to decide between Three Lakes and Takemizu.

Kendal turned 67 this month and all she asked me for in the way of gifts was new furniture for the study, so that’s what she got. New desk, new chairs, new bookcases and new chess set. 

I thought she should have something just for herself as well though, so I also picked up some earrings for her, which she adored.

The furniture was the real hit though. She was getting bored with our old stuff, now that she’s actually home to see it all the time!

We’re going to have a larger gathering a little later but the boys all dropped by on her actual birthday.

They gave Kendal her birthday gifts and we had dinner together, slightly ineptly cooked by me.

We don’t normally see any of our kids without the grandkids in tow, so it was a nice change to have some adult conversation with them.

Rose and Joanna visited with their family a few days later. The grandkids are all so big now we can hardly believe it.

That often means they have their own plans on the weekend and don’t always come to see us, so we were glad to see all three of them this time.

Levi and Will are off to high school at the beginning of next year. They’ve got some friends starting with them, so I'm betting they'll be just fine. 

But the boys are both more excited about getting their older sister out of the house and taking over her bedroom! I doubt that’s going to happen but it’s all they could talk about.

Sylvia will be off to college next year. Suffolk University snapped her right up. She scored a 65 on her SAS, which was one of the highest scores in her grade. 

She wants to study Drama. She has the plan be a writer, mainly, but she also wants to act and direct. 

Sylvia is the first grandchild we’re seeing off to college and it’s a strange feeling but we’re very proud as well.

We see Patience and Rob’s kids more often than any of our other grandchildren. Seeing Rob has no family in town, we’re usually the first choice when they need a babysitter. 

In Patience’s line of work, there are a lot of events she has to attend at night. When Rob accompanies her, we go over and watch the kids.

We’ve had them all over at our place but when it’s likely to be a late night, it’s much easier to have them in their own home. 

It’s a great excuse for me to play with their toys for a while too, all under the guise of babysitting!

Chris has started to come around a lot more these days. He has a key, so he sometimes just lets himself in and heads for the study to play some darts.

He and Veronica have become a bit more serious about each other over the last few months, much to Kendal’s delight and he’s also been bringing her over a fair bit as well. 

Kendal already knew Veronica well through work but it was important for her that Chris start bringing Veronica into the family. 

Kendal thinks Veronica has been a good influence on him; I think it’s probably that he knows Kendal doesn’t have so much to nag him about any more.

She was worried he’d never settle down but I never was. He’s still only 28 - a mere kid, from my perspective! When I was his age, I wasn’t anywhere near close to settling down. I was almost 40 when Rose was born.

But Chris seems very happy and I know Kendal is thrilled, so I’m happy too. I can’t ask for much more than that. 

Notes:

• Title is from Static Age by the Misfits.
• And I'm through the winter! Yay! It just felt like it took forever! I have a couple of exciting things happening in the spring (the first being Lila and Connor's wedding), so I'm pretty happy to finally reach it.
• Kendal has become obsessed with the dog since she retired. Seeing they both have all the time in the world now, I let her train him up. I'm usually way too lazy to do that with sim pets!
• All of Kendal's boys drop over autonomously all the time. Chris previously didn't but he seems to now, which is interesting! 
• For those keeping track at home, no, I still can't tell Levi and Will apart. It'll be interesting to see if I get it together once they age up to teen, lol.