Hold a Story for new High School pack?

I am at the half way point of putting 24 sims through my prep school and university.
This is all for a master save file that I am setting up. I can simply put them on hold and edit other features around my various sims worlds until High School Years comes out.

I am working on a custom career for Models, so that should keep me busy too.
They need jobs to complete my Style Influencer/Photographer/Model overlapping game play circle.
I am also working on a custom trait (Fabulous) for my models.

I'm putting Werewolves on hold and returning to my main family. I'd moved two of the three adult daughters to Moonwood Mills to become a vampire and a werewolf. Moved them back into the family household and deleted the Werewolf save. The third adult daughter has a child so I'll be focusing on her for now and getting her ready for high school. Might add another kid to the family so I can have two high schoolers.

I'm not really putting anything on hold because as usual I only play with the same save and same sims. So everything new that comes is integrated together. Mainly I'm just trying to figure out how to integrate werewolves because my main sims were already established occults so I don't even know who to turn werewolf yet.
I will continue to play with teens as usual and when the pack drops I will build a new school (or however it works) and throw them in but it won't go against my main story since school is always a side story for me.

When I get a new pack I either integrate it into the current save as it is, or start a new one. I stop and start a lot though because I get bored with legacy style games or overwhelmed by big themed games. Having said that, I've been thinking of starting an American sitcom themed save, and the pack would definitely be useful for that. I'm waiting for reviews and so forth before I make a final decision but at this point I'm about 90% sure I will get it at some point.

I'm still on the fence with werewolves so I'm waiting for a sale - I'd almost convinced myself to get it as a reward for completing a personal project but I bought a different non-Sims game instead! It turns out I want the body scars and the CAS items more than the actual werewolves so yeah, definitely waiting for a sale on that one.

I am still enjoying werewolves. I have no desire at all to play high school. Perhaps one day in the far future.

Do you already have plot hooks for the kiddos? If yes, play on. If there's nothing waiting for them, then wait for the EP.

I'm playing my two saves with werewolves right now and they don't even have any children yet.
My other (about) 60 saves have lots of teens currently. My play style is very slow and because I play my saves rotationally I will have lots of time to send many teens to high school.

I don’t have any children in my current save. I have a sim that’s pregnant and by the time HS comes out they will probably be a teen. Or at least close.

I'll start a new save when the pack comes out. That's why all of my screenshots are the same sims year after year! lol

I play with aging off so I can just leave them until the pack is released. I'm not sure how it will even work playing this pack with aging off, so we will see.