Pre-Growing Together expansion pack angst!

Forgot to mention that it's pretty much what I have been doing in my own game. Rearranging families, setting up their houses, other fun amusement park lots from a mod creator. I've also been building my familes relationships, doing photoshoots with my photographer, designing wearwolves, adopting pets, and things like that. My vampire wearwolf rivalries will start soon so I've been plenty busy without feeling bored. Though I am excited for this new pack. I'm not a family player in the traditional sense and I rarely play couples or romance. But I'm really looking forward to all of the features this pack will bring to expand my families and kids especially. Can't wait for my vampire to adopt an infant. Soon I'm going to have him find a lost baby that he will care for until infants arrive and I can age the baby up.
And since I don't play for long periods of time I don't even think I will get to do it all ?

The peps is real for me, but not for the expansion, don't get me wrong, I love what I have seen and plan on getting it at release, but what has me not wanting to play is the infant update. My current save my main Sim is pregnant and now I don't want to play her family until the infant update is here. The wait is torture. Maybe I will just start a new save and focus on something else I normally don't.

Yeah, I am going hog wild on my current save trying to prepare my game for infants and the new EP. It almost feels like work sometimes but I can't imagine just installing an expansion and jumping right into the game raw with new townies roaming around in a totally different "style" than my made over ones. It wouldn't be fun, it would just be a reminder of how much I gotta do to make it fun.
Like many (maybe most) players who are getting the newest pack, my gameplay is also on hold until the babies can age into infants. I have to come up with some family-type sims to care for the infants also, without making the game too hard to play with a packed household. Don't even know where to start with that part, at least making over townies is easy. None of them are abominable looking, just mismatched which is an easy fix.

so. much. pain. WAITING-
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I am right there with you. I haven't been *this* excited for an expansion pack in years. So, definitely having some major PEPS. But I have this idea for a legacy, so I'm trying to get my founder and her background story ready. I'm also trying to make some Single Sims and families in CAS so that she can have some Sims to befriend over time. I really like that we're getting so many new systems in this expansion pack and so, I'm trying to prepare for them as I make the Sims and also trying to find a nice suburban house for my founder because I'm not great at building. So, while I'm a little sad about this wait because it feels like foreverr! I'm also grateful because it gives me time to prepare my game/households.

I'm also playing other games in between working on my save file, because I do get unmotivated to actually play game play, because we don't have the new features and the pack + the infants.. it makes it so hard for me to even attempt to have kids in the game right now because I don't want my Sim, or future Sim kids to miss out on quirks, milestones, etc.

I'd like to see the map of the new world with lot sizes so I can build my house in advance and then be able to move it straight to the new world and begin playing lol

yeah it would be nice to see the world map and lot sizes
if not to start building then at least to start scheming

I expect bugs in the new EP. I expect the standard advice to be to remove all mods. One of the things I did was start my game over from scratch and it is something I plan to do again. Mostly I am taking the time to visit places that I have never visited and I am taking notes of the resources there. I am not building anything grand and using any excess funds to pay for vacations.

For building, I am learning to build 2x2 and 2x3 and 3x3 homes. And the cheap living expenses leaves plenty of money for vacations.

I am trying to garden only with things found and not buy any seeds or plants.

Instead of waiting for more, I am figuring out how to efficiently use less of everything. Instead of rags to riches, I want to figure out how to make rags fun.

I have been so angsty for the pack, too! I just keep reminding myself that for as bored as I am now, that’s how busy I’m going to be once the pack is out, LOL!

I am really curious about what else is in the pack and want to see the new world. I am looking forward to the live stream.