I'm doing something a little different... I started out focusing on the Ottomas family, and doing a sort of story around their lives (as you can see in my journal). They live in Riverblossom Hills, so I began with playing just that neighbourhood. Then I added Bluewater Village to the rounds, and later, Academie Le Tour (where David went to college) and Belladonna Cove. It's going pretty slowly already with so many families. I play each household for two days each time (with a mod for college that makes 1 term = 2 days/1 semester = 4 days). So the different neighbourhoods have been played for different lengths of time, but for time measurement, David Ottomas is in his last year of college right now, and the twins are half-way through teenhood.

That's not a bad idea, making a 'hood template like that. Hmm!