You say it's your birthday, August 2046

August 2046 (Winter)

Matilda is 26 weeks along now and she feels pretty awful. Not long after our last check-in, she learned she was expecting triplets! 

Everything feels at least three times as bad as it did with Phoebe, so coupled with the fact that she’s almost a decade older now, it hasn’t been an easy pregnancy this time around. 

Unfortunately, Phoebe is as demanding as ever and at the moment, she is demanding a party for her upcoming 9th birthday.

Matilda can’t think of anything she wants to do less right now than plan and oversee a children’s birthday party but Phoebe is a tad spoiled. 

She probably knew she’d be getting her party before she even asked.

Fortunately, Miles is a gem and volunteers to take over most of the planning and most of the supervision on the day.

Matilda’s best friend Adrienne comes over too, with her own two kids, Beau and Elisa and is also on hand to help out with the party.

It lets Matilda get some much needed shut-eye, until it’s time for the most important parts of the day…

…which are of course, presents and cake! Happy birthday, Phoebe!

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Brigit is turning 27 and had all intentions of spending the day studying. She’s halfway through her third year of undergrad, working towards a vet science degree and always has a ton of work to do. 

Husband Noah insists she can take at least one day off to celebrate. 

Brigit doesn’t take much convincing. She’s quite relieved to have someone give her permission to take a break. 

It’s just lunch at a local restaurant but it is very, very welcome for Brigit.

She hadn’t realised how desperate she was to think about anything other than immunobiology!

Sophie and Oliver come over in the afternoon, bringing baby Piper along with them.

Noah and Brigit are both desperate to start a family but being in the middle of a very demanding academic program, in a tiny house with not a lot of money to their names makes it not a great time. 

It’s very hard to keep in that sensible mindset after cuddles with Piper though. She’s four months old and absolutely adorable. 

So far, Brigit and Noah are resisting temptation but the conclusion of Brigit’s studies can’t come quickly enough!

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Sullivan’s Trent Kirby died this week at home aged 76, due to complications from the flu. He was with wife Megan, daughter Claudia, son-in-law Jacob and granddaughters Daphne and Iris.

Trent Kirby was born in 1970 to Brandon and Leontine, local Sullivan farmers. His only sibling was Tate, his twin brother. 

Trent earned a degree in Literature from Suffolk University and right after graduation, he returned to the family farm and met Megan Vaughan not long afterwards. 

Megan and Trent started dating and soon enough, they were married. 

Trent and Megan had three daughters together, first twins Claudia and Victoria, followed by Rebecca.

Trent worked full-time on the farm and in the market until about five years ago, when Claudia took over from him, allowing Trent to enjoy his retirement. 

Trent is survived by his wife Megan, his brother Tate, his daughters Claudia, Victoria and Rebecca and his seven grandchildren, Declan, Caitlin, Keira, Daphne, Iris, Byron and Noel.

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Other August birthdays:

Richie Moretti turns 2

Cary Hamilton turns 3

Natalie Clarke turns 9

Theo Nihill turns 11

Iris Kirby turns 12

Ramona Nihill turns 19

Leslie Lachance turns 35

Eliot Lane turns 60

Kendal Draper turns 70

James and Naomi Novak turn 71

August wedding anniversaries:

Zane and Chloe Hamilton - 10 years

David and Kirstin Sitko - 36 years

Notes:

• I think I have talked before about how I do a multiples roll with some of my pregnant sims - it’s mainly for my older mothers (35+) or in cases where the babies will have at least one parent or grandparent who is a twin (or other multiple, though until Matilda, I only ever had twins!) The roll gives those sims a higher chance of having multiples, which I then control with the Triplets & Quads mod (non random version). So I decided to roll for Matilda, thinking it would just be a singleton, as it usually is. Nope. I was going to ignore it, because I hadn’t accounted for it in the story until now but…TRIPLETS! That’s so exciting! And I don’t know when my next chance for triplets will be, so I feel like I have to go through with it, lol! In RL, Matilda would have found out she was having triplets in her first trimester. In game, she is now in her third. Last time we checked in on her, she was 14 weeks, which is fairly early in the second, so in my head, she found out not long after that! Still not super-realistic but I’m going with it!
• Brigit and Noah both have baby wants but so far, they haven’t tried for a baby. So I’m taking that to mean it’s definitely in their future plans but not the right time at the moment. 
• Trent dying was not intended! In the middle of my play session with the Kirbys, I decided I wanted a new house for them. So once I finished the play session, I downloaded one and moved them in. I started decorating, finished the first floor and then unpaused to let everyone start moving around to make sure it was all playable. Not 10 seconds later, the Grim Reaper arrived for Trent! I’d forgotten to turn aging off! Via EA’s system, it was his time but with mine, he had 7 or 8 years left. I considered exiting without saving but to be honest, I couldn’t bear losing all my decorating! LOL. So…sorry, Trent! You’ll be missed!